Sentences with phrase «for political hacks»

Writing presentations for lawyers, testimonies for political hacks or reports for energy think tanks may increase your need for the INTEGRITY brand.

I may actually have some sympathy for the scientists who were duped (or bribed) into becoming little more than stage props for these political hacks in the IPCC.

This (and the full paragraph) gets at the heart of why private correspondence between scientists is inherently of limited value, and also why it's a boon for political hacks (context that is lacking can be created to suit one's goals).

Not exact matches

Last week, intelligence officials said they believe the individuals responsible are working for Russian intelligence and coordinating with Assange on the political hacking.

He's exactly the same kind of political hack that his dad was, praying with Nixon while slave soldiers died in VietNam and hoping for extermination camps in the USA with Reagan.

We are fortunate when we can protect a tree that has been provided by nature, but to make the extra effort of applying human labour to plant trees and subsequently hack them down for firewood, is a reflection of the thoughtlessness of both the contractor, political authority, and the littlemindedness of those who could not protect the shady trees.

10:18 - Jay says the plan for today is to work through political issues chronologically - then phone - hacking - then broader questions.

Opposition calls vote a «charade» Odinga, a 72 - year - old former political prisoner who has campaigned for the presidency four times, is refusing to accept the results, claiming the vote was hacked.

Party - political division and further entry - points for careerists and hacks — whether in Westminster or Holyrood — are not the answer.

Everyone is jockeying for position in the senate democratic conference in order to save their political patronage hacks in the likely case that they've lost their majority.

We are confident New York voters will see this for what it is — hysteria by career politicians, political insiders and hacks whose only motivation is to continue feeding at the public trough.»

The state shut down the New York City OTB in 2010 after the public corporation — which operated about 50 storefront gambling dens and served as a patronage mill for crooked political hacks — went bankrupt.»

The Office for Technology is a completely redundant and wasteful State bureaucracy and political hack dumping ground which never accomplished a damn thing given its lofty mission well over a decade ago.

In a Facebook post that was later removed, Mr. Kleinberg complained of long hours and micromanagement and described his experience with the administration as working with «political hacks plus a boss who just couldn't get it,» adding, «It was a bad combination for sure.»

I know Simcha for 15 years, before being elected to the City Council, (when he was still a private citizen), & he's not a typical political hack that's always looking out for what benefits himself.

A political hack friend of mine said its customary for campaign workers to register in the town that they will be working (and living) in.

But while the hacks and the lobbyists all marveled at this bold / bonkers (depending on your political slant) pledge, the membership were mostly complaining that it hadn't gone far enough; why wasn't Ed promising to re-nationalise the energy companies and give electricity and gas away to everyone for free?

Harman stuck a self - deprecating note as she told the assembled hacks that her new book would be «the stock text for the Harriet Harman Institute of Political Correctness».

Whoever was so bold as to hack into the phone of one of nassau's political leaders must be brought to justice and serve time for what they have done!

Toolman - sympathetic to your point about term limits; but the main reason there is such a strong case for term limits nowadays is because the districts have been made so dafe for one party or another that it's very difficult for my preferred check and balance (aka «an election») on past - their - sell - by - date political hacks to work normally.

New Labour hacks will accept Brown's political manoevring for what it is, but the ideologues will be wondering when the political capital is actually going to be used for some ideological ends (sound familiar?).

Mangano has said he was hacked or «spoofed» and blamed political enemies for trying to embarrass him.

President Obama considered veteran Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel a political hack and had such little regard for Jesse Jackson that he «effectively banned» the civil rights leader from the White House, a new book claims.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scrutinized once again over his level of support for Senate Democrats, a spokesman to the governor calls a Bill de Blasio political adviser «a political hack» when returning fire over criticism of recent appointments.

When Sean joined forces with me to create a set - aside for service - disabled veterans, some political hacks on both sides of the aisle cringed.

Tim sureth a / k / a tim smith is a conman political hack who was nothing more than a gofer for the campaign manager.

Rangel has been a racist, a thief and a left wing political hack for 40 years and he's not even going to get his hand slapped.

Wallace said in a statement: «Its supporters are a collection of political hacks and self - serving sore losers pretending to be looking out for business.

Decision keeps pressure on Andy Coulson If the police start looking into allegations of widespread, endemic phone hacking at the News of the World, something they didn't do in 2006, the pressure for Andy Coulson to stand aside during a revived full - scale investigation could be hard to resist, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate findings.

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

Of course the stock can't go too far, because the political hacks will be back for more.

Dempsey is a political hack carrying water for his confused, dithering boss.

It's OK for political parties to be in hock to foreign donors, for someone who has renounced his Australian citizenship to control most of our media, and for careerist politicians to start out as hack staffers, give out favors in office, and cash them out afterwards.

Often when I hear the Goldman winners» stories, I am reminded that the work for environmental justice and ecological sanity is a direct challenge to some of the greatest powers on the planet — the fossil fuel industry, the mineral companies, industrial agriculture, and the political hacks that serve them.

Based on imagined fears and «persuasive» lobbying, the political hacks chose the worst course for nature and the climate.

For every Chris Mooney or Elizabeth Kolbert there are a dozen hacks calling Judith or Roger up every time they need a dash of confusion to make their stories come out even, and another couple of dozen on each side of the stupid political fence squawking absurd paranoid narratives that are at best occasionally half true by luck.

Well, technically I am not a «political hack», since that is an unskilled person who works for a political party and does so for personal gain.

The rightist hack argument is that global warming is a fraud engineered by godless liberals for political reasons.