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...that leather should become the fashion mandate for all seasons [Feb. 1]. This translates into more animals being slaughtered to pander to the whims of the jaded elite and more money for the greedy fashion industry...
There's nothing evasive or coy about them. They don't pander to greed, resentment, or envy. They are not locked in the logic or the rhetoric of the '70s. They are the kind of proposal that made the Democratic party and made the middle class of this country, the kind of proposal that will serve the social, physical and economic well-being of the people of this state. True, they reflect changed realities, but they also reflect a constancy of purpose, and finally, a political honesty about who we are, where we are, and what we must...
These horses will have a host of stable-boys, in the form of delegates and media types who will predictably pander to their every need, all the while carrying out a self-fabricated race of their own, for the big "scoop" or the nearest urinal. They will wear buttons extolling their favorite horse--or the only horse, as the case...
...both racist and absurd. If the Hasty Pudding wants to demonstrate absurdity of stereotypes, they should "poke fun" at those who make stereotypes, not perpetutate these negative images. These stereotypes were not "misconstrued." People know when they have been offended. These shows don't "make fun" of ignorance, they pander to an ignorant audience that laughs at racism and sexism...
...will. Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun-like Hearst and Pulitzer quite a phrasemaker and an exemplar of the era-declared that the Sun could not be blamed for reporting what God had permitted to happen. That was only partly a copout. While the press should not pander to base or grisly appetites, or merely "give the people what they want," neither should it be expected to change human nature (if that concept is still admissible). America's mainstream publications today, for all their faults, are far more broad-gauged, responsible, accurate-and self-critical-than ever...