Sentences with phrase «political hacks on»

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.

Yesterday, the mayor's social media director quit after just eight weeks on job, denouncing political hacks on his Facebook page, a move that landed him on the wood of the New York Post.

He says Lawler, who is fresh out of Harvard Law School, is «not some sort of a political hack on a vendetta against Swanson, but an idealistic young lawyer who happens to believe in unions.»

Not exact matches

The hack sets a new precedent and draws into question the US government's ability to deter state - sponsored cyberattacks on even the most sensitive government and political operations.

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

It shows how hacking is not just a political mission but a personal one too (yes, Snowden creeped on her computer).

His words echoed a phrase used by Trump himself, who was quoted as saying in an interview with the New York Times newspaper on Friday that the storm over Russian hacking was a «political witch hunt.»

The same «damned if you don't but possibly way more damned if you do» situation is manifesting itself in a wildly different way when it comes to Russia's hacking and cyber espionage on US political institutions, voter rolls and even the cyber probing of American voting machines.

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

Emo The Laffer Curve «Reality» TV Droopy drawers (hip hop variety) Hack - spewed talking points on cable «news» Endlessly looping viagra / light beer / car insurance commercials Throat - singing (metal variety) McMansions Newt Gingrich A political discourse based on fear.

@GuidoFawkes - Very amusing that a dozen tweeting political hacks are all claiming an exclusive on Mr Fred Goodwin.

On August 28, 2007, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards proposed what he called «Brownie's Law» requiring that «qualified people, not political hacks», lead key federal agencies.

Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota ratcheted up his attacks on de Blasio Thursday, calling him a «political hack» who «talks in great platitudes» but doesn't have the «skills or ability» to run New York City.

Boris Johnson has been accused of «political interference» in the police's phone - hacking investigation after saying officers should «move on».

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday unveiled his «Democracy Agenda,» a plan to create more transparency in political advertising and require online platforms to archive political ads, protect state elections from hacking threats, and enhance voting opportunities.

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?

Since you are initiating an «outside management consultant» onto CUNY wouldn't it make sense to utilize one to look at your own bloated executive bureaucracy where you seem intent on hiring every donor and political hack you know?

It is sad that both Anthony Weiner and Ed Mangano had their phones hacked by political enemies intent on destroying their careers!

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.

Ed Miliband, who enjoyed some of his strongest moments as Labour leader when the phone - hacking on Milly Dowler story broke, seemed far more enthusiastic and even victorious as he gave a speech which poured praise on his own political opponents, including Cameron and Nick Clegg.

The email was sent at 4.20 pm on 11 July 2011, the day after the News of the World closed and seven days after the Guardian disclosed that the tabloid had hacked the voicemail messages of the missing Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, triggering a chain reaction of further revelations and political outcry.

To ingratiate himself with Mangano, Cuomo in 2013 appointed local political hack Jon Kaiman as chairman of the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority (a state control board on which I served as a director from 2010 to 2014) instead of appointing a municipal - finance expert.

Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota ratcheted up his attacks on Democratic opponent Bill de Blasio Thursday, calling him a «political hack» who «talks in great platitudes» but doesn't have the «skills or ability» to run New York City.

Interesting perspective from a political party head — that Allen giving people a chance to vote their opinion at the polls as opposed to a small group of political hacks making the decision on the nomination, represents a «back door.»

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.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 1, Episode 23: John Heilemann talks to Pulitzer Prize winner David Sanger of The New York Times and Dmitri Alperovitch, the Co-Founder of CrowdStrike on the connection between the WikiLeaks hacks and the Russian government

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

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.

Were it 1880, you'd be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail, you political hack harpy.

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.

Every dying movement, every atrophying public institution, every vapid political party, and every hollow - headed hack has closed ranks on the issue of climate change, to form a rearguard action against their own decline.

Can we please get rid of the political hacks and get some real scientists working on this stuff at GISS?

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.

Among the political improbabilites of the last few years has been the emergence of a Republican think tank that does the unthinkable — basing climate policy proposals on climate science and employing climate scientists as opposed to K - street hacks to write them.

Almost all the media and political discussion about the hacked climate emails has been based on soundbites publicised by professional sceptics and their blogs.

The cryptocurrency industry has withstood regulatory bans, political slams, criticism, scepticism, hacks, viruses and intense competition, surviving solely on the basis of innovation and market demand.