Rock's newly ascendant cult of the auteur disdained mainstream pop stars as
panderers, robbed of masculine creativity by middlebrow handlers at whose insistence they produced diluted versions of black originals.
This shallow effort is slightly more than that shown by the green
panderers but still only penetrates skin deep into business practices, thus creating a "green skin."
Not this 68-year-old knighted bloke currently running Old Trafford, the
panderer to greedy footballers and apologist for even greedier owners.
It regards the overzealous officer of the law as a greater danger to the community than the unpunished murderer or embezzler or
panderer....
One fellow merchant defaced it with yellow paint and tar and the Echo's sister paper the Western Mail ran an editorial describing Batchelor as "a traitor to the Crown, a reviler of the aristocracy, a hater of the clergy, a
panderer to the multitude..."
Worse, it seems that anyone who attempts to create a sense of racial unity is attacked and labeled a sellout and puppet (if you are a black conservative) or liberal
panderer seeking to soothe your moral conscience (if you are white).
Mathias is a
panderer and falls fawningly at his master's feet in blind obedience.
To the mainstream left, Bill Clinton might have been a shameless
panderer who punted on gays in the military and co-opted conservative issues like welfare reform, but he was still, after all, a liberal.
Mr Obama also accused Mrs Clinton of being a dishonest
panderer.
Todd Freeman, as diminutive club owner Pewee Abernathy, also delivers an extraordinary performance, and an appealingly quirky one, combining dry humor with neurosis to create an oddly lovable
panderer.
Finally, McCain needs a "right-wing
panderer"--somebody who talks like a conservative intensely enough that he can win over the skeptical base, but not somebody who honestly believes what he says, since, seriously, could a maverick like McCain really deal with that?
The Preliminary, Premier
Panderer Award goes to Senator Clinton, who (not alone, but most publicly) has called for bailouts for homeowners in trouble because they signed on for exotic loan programs or didn't qualify in the first place.
In addition to being ill-informed about the facts and a
panderer to those who hate the US, he is practising this very imperialism himself, by telling the US what it should do.
The prevailing approach to pandering is panderer-oriented, based on the rights that the
panderer draws from the First Amendment.
Clinton will be to navigate the primary process on the war and other issues in a way that attracts, or at least assuages, liberal voters while not casting her as a poll-driven
panderer or locking her into positions that could complicate a general election campaign.
