ballyhooing

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With songs about drunken ballyhooing (yes I just said ballyhooing), lies, and punching Russell Crowe, it's hard for even a hardened cynic such as myself to find anything negative to say about this band.

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  • - Apple will be ballyhooing new iPod-related products on September 9. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • And conservative magazine "Politics and Critical Thinking" is already ballyhooing a Palen-Jindal ticket if McCain is elected and decides not to run for a second term.
  • You come on here and you're complaining about Beck and Limbaugh, and then you start ballyhooing those lefties. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • All this presidential ballyhooing that's going on all across the country, and the super-duper-pooper Tuesday hype is mostly all for naught. —  Wisdom From Wenchypoo's Mental Wastebasket
  • Now for the bonus: the AIG bonuses that everyone is busy ballyhooing over in an attempt to raise poll numbers for re-election (Charles Schumer topping all the drama with his "suicide" remarks) amount to a MERE FRACTION of the amount laundered to other companies and other continents through AIG. —  Wisdom From Wenchypoo's Mental Wastebasket
 

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