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  • The fact that he didn't immediately come to get booked on this show indicates that the RNC is in better hands, because it's no longer being run by an attention-whore.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • The fact that he didn't immediately come to get booked on this show indicates that the RNC is in better hands, because it's no longer being run by an attention-whore.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Even after the video was widely debunked and Breitbart discredited as an overzealous attention-whore, white rage and white resentment was successfully fueled by conservatives across the media spectrum.

    Bob Cesca: The Summer of Republican Race-Baiting 2010

  • For background purposes, it's important to note that Andrew Breitbart is an attention-whore who is desperate to emulate his mentor, Matt Drudge, and this isn't the first time he's released misleading videotape "evidence" of African Americans behaving badly (or so he claims) in order to drive traffic to his various websites while augmenting his status as a player in the modern conservative movement.

    Bob Cesca: Fooled Again by Breitbart and the Wingnut Right 2010

  • For background purposes, it's important to note that Andrew Breitbart is an attention-whore who is desperate to emulate his mentor, Matt Drudge, and this isn't the first time he's released misleading videotape "evidence" of African Americans behaving badly (or so he claims) in order to drive traffic to his various websites while augmenting his status as a player in the modern conservative movement.

    Bob Cesca: Fooled Again by Breitbart and the Wingnut Right 2010

  • Even after the video was widely debunked and Breitbart discredited as an overzealous attention-whore, white rage and white resentment was successfully fueled by conservatives across the media spectrum.

    Bob Cesca: The Summer of Republican Race-Baiting 2010

  • In Missouri, in the St. Louis area, we have an attention-whore, fanatical archbishop who will have a lot of fun telling catholics who they can vote for without losing their right to take communion.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • True, her family did, but that was only because her mother is such a desperate attention-whore that we suspect it was either star in a reality TV show or get her bum out for strangers at bus stops.

    Fashion: Lindsay Lohan Finds Something New To Be Terrible At 2009

  • It is possible that the fact that I let my fifteen-month-old daughter use my camera and then post the product of her efforts on the Internet is just so much more evidence that I am an unrepentant attention-whore

    The Kid Stays In The Picture | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I think Obama saw at Saddleback that Warren is an attention-whore who was seeking to be the new Billy Graham.

    Picking Rick Warren Brilliant Because It Riles Up The Left? 2009

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