Word: venom
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...Team Coco,” a zealous faction of fans who protested in support of the late-night host throughout the country. But even more, Conan’s show underwent a substantive change. Simply put, he stopped being nice. It was only when he injected his jokes with venom and directed them at a relevant target that his ratings soared...
...been one of the worst things ever for women in U.S. politics: "It revived old stereotypes, divided the women's movement, drove apart mothers and daughters, and set back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal attacks during their campaigns, venom that Kornblut ascribes to sexism. Won over by Barack Obama, young women failed to appreciate the historic nature of Clinton's quest. Sarah Palin's good looks, meanwhile, "contributed to the narrative of her as an idiotic pawn." Still, the author's in-depth interviews with powerful female politicians like...
North Korea's propagandists rarely get to have as much fun as they do when writing the official annual New Year's editorial carried by various official news outlets. Brimming with venom and vitriol, the message typically consists primarily of blood-curdling threats to bludgeon various enemies into submission. In 2009, they wrote that the "daunting reality" North Korea faced required the "seething red blood of revolution...