ass-kissing

• “I like watching Davis fight, but the real question will be -- if he wins -- how much ass-kissing will the "Irish Hand Grenade" do for the Dublin crowd?”

  Archive 2009-01-11

• “Billed as "a new comedy about back-stabbing, ass-kissing, and survival of the sneakiest," it has been directed by Gary Graves with a grand sense of timing and snarky revenge.”

  The Huffington Post: George Heymont: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

• “I never thought I would have anything GOOD to say about the boot-licking/ass-kissing Log Cabin Republicans.”

  Calif judge to stop ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy

• “A montage of A Question Of Sport clips ensues: first Emlyn Hughes toadying up to Princess Anne, then Matt Dawson forwarding the ass-kissing baton a generation later with her daughter, Zara Phillips.”

  The Guardian: TV Greats: Our Favourites From The North – Grace Dent's TV OD

• “And I am appalled by Chad Love's blatant ass-kissing of this woman by way of his self-serving citation of his previous entry from F&S Field Notes that he claims as a "vox clamantis in deserto" post earlier in the same blog.”

  Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A.

• “Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing little chickenshit” and added, “I hate people like that”, the sources say.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Trouble at the War College

• “He tried to parachute into San Jose and win a city council seat – mainly on a platform of ass-kissing and more cops.”

  Matthew Yglesias » New Assistant Attorneys General

• “Not with any civil rights concerns – since he had to pre-clear that Lindh did not have any 9/11 links – but in another ass-kissing episode to placate a boss.”

  Matthew Yglesias » New Assistant Attorneys General

• “Not who-you-know, not a long list of previous publications, not all the professional ass-kissing that takes place amongst the usual suspects.”

  linda aschbrenner | verse wisconsin | issue 101 winter 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “When he ran the Senate, he compiled an utterly embarassing record of Republican ass-kissing that makes the timid Harry Reid look like Newt Gingrich. hubcap Says:”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Daschle Problem

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