Sentences with phrase «snake oil salesman in»

How ironic that the worst snake oil salesman in the country wants to do a «reality» show.

The snake oil salesmen in The Babble are all men because The Babble was put together by men in a time when women were considered less than equal.

Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesmen in my books, besides I'm in the big leagues (Catholic) don't play with the minor league stuff and trust me I've been to almost every religion over my life searching for answers, I have a library of Bibles, Reference Books from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questions.

I'm going to give you the skinny on some of the bullcrap I've heard from these snake oil salesmen in the hopes that it may someday help a newbie author avoid falling under their spells.

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.

Not exact matches

Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.

Efforts to rein in the proverbial snake oil salesmen of the advertising industry typically fail.

Perhaps judas was tired of being a traveling snake - oil salesman and was doing the right thing by turning in a scam artist.

I do trust in the collective wisdom of most others — I say most because I absolutely do not trust any religious leaders — they are all delusional snake oil salesmen.

This is the same insti.tution that looks the other way when children are ra.ped, that tell people in AIDS - ridden parts of the world not to use condoms, that peddles miracles to old ladies like snake oil salesmen.

Spoken like a true snake oil salesman... «Ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City.»

I don't need a religion to believe in God nor do I need a «Sunday Snake Oil Salesman» to interpret the Bible for me.

Yesterday, in Sunday Superlatives, I included a quote from Mark Twain in which he referred to a snake oil salesman as an «idiot,» but no one left an angry comment warning me of hell based on Jesus» teaching in Matthew 5:22 that «if you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court; and if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.»

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.

And they did not do a Reformation, for they only added to the dysfunction of organized religion by accepting the «prophecies» of a drunk, womanizing, snake - oil salesman, and con - artist who was murdered in Nauvoo, Illinois.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

Meanwhile Stewart Jackson, the parliamentary private secretary to the Brexit secretary David Davis made his feelings clear in a tweet that dismissed Blair as a «snake oil salesman».

The question of what Empire State taxpayers are getting in exchange for these subsidies is never clear and compelling, despite regular claims of an economic bonanza that would sound quite normal coming from the lips of a supply - side snake - oil salesman.

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):

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... Read

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.»

Of course, I'm sure you'll refer to him as some kind of quack or snake oil salesman, because he doesn't follow what is engrained in nutrition courses and books, and guidelines thrown together by the USDA, which by the way, has done nothing to make us healthier as a population.

My final verdict on the matter is that juice cleanses are a complete and total scam, and that anyone who partakes in the business of selling them is ignorant about their own product at best, and a slimy, unethical snake oil salesman at worst and should be publicly exposed for their BS and probably fined and / or jailed for participating in a scam that misinforms the public and can put people's health in danger while touting their products as «healthy lifestyle alternatives.»

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.

I guess I'm just irked when those in my profession sound more like the snake oil salesman of old than the professionals we are.

You see, in her wisdom, she views traditional publishing as the first tier, the better tier, and indie publishing as the snake oil salesmen of the publishing world.

«In an industry full of snake oil salesmen and fairy tale promises, Jordan Roy - Byrne's advisory services and deep comprehension of the precious metals market is second to none.

There is no known way of reducing the damage of a dog's bite in these scenarios, so don't be fooled by snake - oil salesmen offering relief for a fee.

A retrospective reveals him as designer, dreamer, architect, college professor, a snake - oil salesman, and a a prototype for Modernism in America.

As a professional auditor, I remain puzzled how company directors can face prosecution for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct by knowingly releasing reports to the market place that are seriously flawed if not fraudulent... yet the climate change charlatans (the IPCC and its assisting cabal of snake - oil salesmen scientists) can issue reports of greater consequence to the world, which are knowingly biased and flawed, and contain blatant errors and anomalies, but they still remain «untouchables»!

And not a one of the so - called «scientists» will cop to being a snake oil salesman, because (in their own minds) the ends justify the means.

He's the snake oil salesman who said that the CRU emails «had no effect on science» because he is fully at ease with corruption of data in his screaming global warming doom mongering, kept in his position by his anti coal nuclear interests.

The AGW snake oil salesmen will still be promoting their lies when icebergs are sinking ships in the North Sea, blizzards envelope most of North America and frosts kill their summer crops.

People died because SA leaders, significant numbers of media opinionators, and even ordinary people, valued the local wisdom about AIDS being a nutritional disease rather than HIV, routinely lauded western AIDS heretics and snake - oil salesmen, and entertained conspiracy theories about the disease itself being a plot by western outsiders, and that anti-retrovirals, rather than a treatment, were just another aspect in this devious plot of western - medicine to sicken people in Africa.

«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.»

Recalling that I characterized «Girma» as a «Snake Oil Salesman» in my Jane Austen parody post in the «Sense about Sensitivity Thread» in April, 2013, I looked up why I did and discovered why I still DO think Girma is a slick operator:

If you asked venture capitalists in the Valley around that time what they thought about Advanced Equities, a common response was that it didn't have a very good reputation — «snake oil salesmen» was the term often used.

Mr Cummings is disparaging in his blog about the alleged «superpowers» attributed to Cambridge Analytica, saying they are no better than many other «snake - oil» salesman operating in the field of political marketing.

The stereotype of the seller of swamp land in Florida, or of the Brooklyn Bridge remain in the general lexicon of public mythology, much in the same way that the snake oil salesman of lore exists.

The stereotypical» snake ‑ oil salesman» doesn't exist for long in the real world of real estate.

Gain — I feel sorry for for thinking that someone like me who knows how to decipher and isolate what a target market truly values, and then deliver it in spades — with integrity — is the activity of a slick, snake - oil salesman.