laughing-stocks

The thing that bothers me about making the Obama-Alinsky connection–which I think is demonstrably valid–is that the Left has been remarkably successful, over years of effort, in making such links into laughing-stocks.

Let’s revisit Obama and Alinsky 2010

That's why all the self-improvement organisations such as the Red Cross, the RSPCA, the Salvation Army and other organisations are going strong, and are relevant, whereas PETA and other modern incarnations are laughing-stocks.

Jimmy Carter managed "to fool the voters with his toothy grin and pleasant countenance during most of the long 1976 campaign season." Ann Althouse 2008

Nathanson said: "I've always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds, and in this case, you had guys who pulled off the ultimate con, selling 30 million singles and 11 million albums and then becoming the biggest laughing-stocks of pop entertainment"

Filmstalker: Milli Vanilli to become famous again 2007

If we could only get hold of something tangible, then we might hope to tell all that we knew, without being made into laughing-stocks.

The Ghost Pirates 2007

“Well, make fools of us all; make us laughing-stocks; break it off; have your own way.”

The Woodlanders 2006

Yo, Bill K., are you trying to make conservatives into laughing-stocks by publishing high-brow fools like Berlinksi?

Neoconservative Creationism Steve Sailer 2002

Yo, Bill K., are you trying to make conservatives into laughing-stocks by publishing high-brow fools like Berlinksi?

Archive 2002-04-21 Steve Sailer 2002

Public buildings have become public laughing-stocks.

Art Clive Bell 1922

If we could only get hold of something tangible, then we might hope to tell all that we knew, without being made into laughing-stocks.

The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 5 1909

Of course they were laughing-stocks to their fellows, and felt the deep sting of the lesson that gallant conduct is a matter beneath notice.

Four years under Marse Robert, 1904