Word: blatantness
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...glad to hear that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify under oath and in public before the commission. But the White House’s insistence on the president and the vice president appearing together, is disheartening at best. We are confident that Bush would not willingly manufacture blatant lies and mouth them to the commission; yet with Dick Cheney by his side, Bush will be able to keep his story perfectly consistent with that of one of his closest advisers. One of the most important things the commission has to do in the coming months is compare testimony...
...panel that included outside editors such as John Seigenthaler told staff gathered in the First Amendment dining room at USA Today headquarters near Washington last week that it had found evidence of fabrication in at least eight of Kelley's best-known stories and nearly two dozen instances of blatant plagiarism. A Cuban refugee who Kelley said had drowned, for example, was living...
Never a real innovator, Putin this time around employed electioneering tactics that were pretty predictable—just a little more blatant than in elections past. The ever-compliant press was a little more malleable, broadcasting an entire 29-minute speech Putin gave to campaign staffers. Local leaders were a little more enthusiastic about fixing the results, threatening punishment for not getting to the polls and offering prizes to increase voter turnout and get the 50 percent quorum required to make Putin’s victory official. Workers at polling places were a little more likely to forge a couple...
...didn’t like it,” Welch said. “In college hockey, you have a lot of fake tough guys because there’s no fighting, so you can get away with a lot of stuff, and that was a blatant butt-end. I thought they were gaining confidence from a couple of cheap shots, and after they scored the goal, Sifers was kind of yapping, so I decided to do something about...
...candidates for regional elections in March posted by France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement Party. Initially slated for a prominent slot on the roster, Kedadouche was stunned to learn that he had been assigned an unelectable spot at the bottom of the list, which he refused as blatant tokenism. Long an opponent of state-mandated measures to ensure equality, Kedadouche now admits that "integration, racial equality and occupational access in France won't happen without positive discrimination and the legal evil of quotas. I'm all for a secularity law, but that's just the top branch...