In that climate of fear about the future, ALEC's Rich States, Poor States offers an elixir that purports to cure what ails you —
like snake oil salesmen in days of yore.
Of course, there are some folks who will never «be on board» with social media and will continue to regard its advocates
as snake oil salesmen.
«The promises are just as lofty and the substance is just as absent as the first
snake oil salesmen who plied their trade in the 1800s.»
There are definite signs that
snake oil salesman Gazidis has been affected enough by all the rightful criticism the whole regime has received, to actually start installing changes.
Noted snake oil salesman and potential New York Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. was profiled by Maureen Dowd in the NYT over the weekend and told her he rejects the «ex-gay» myth (which, of course, is a good thing):
I would bear in mind that a «gentleman» that acts in a way that at one point in time would have been crushing to Caryn and has not learned from that and changed is not safe for abuse survivors to be around and is not a gentleman but a
scumbag snake oil salesman masquerading as a gentleman and deserves to be treated as such in protection of the innocent.
2) most medicine men throughout history along
with snake oil salesmen have made the very same claims of being magical in manner.
If anyone needs to listen to
such snake oil salesmen for spiritual enlightenment, I truly suggest they try watching late night TV.
Buuuuuut, maybe we'll get some more juicy gossip about the reported feud centered on Belichick's distrust of Brady's
personal snake oil salesman guru?
But «in the absence of full clinical testing, these bills will
allow snake oil salesmen to sell unproven and scientifically dubious therapies to desperate patients.»
We totally buy the
charming snake oil salesman elements of Flo's character, and even when the movie turns sappy at the end, he lends the piece a sense of dignity.
As a result, a growing number of related programs, apps, and computer skill - and - drill are flooding the market as profiteers and market -
savvy snake oil salesmen stand ready to cash in.
Ghostblawging (a term I believe coined by Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice and Mark W. Bennett at Defending People) is the natural evolution of Web 2.0
snake oil salesmen promising SEO fueled riches with nary a thought or effort.