stooge

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Porter Goss is and was a Bush / Cheney stooge, which is why he had to resign in shame and surrounded by rumors of impropriety.

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  1. noun The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
  2. noun One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
  3. noun Slang A stool pigeon.
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  • This stooge has been one of the major architects of that breakdown. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • Alex Jones is an information stooge, a boisterous bragger and liar, and worst of all, a proxy tool of the finance oligarchs, industrialists, asset-strippers, and Wall-Street robber barons. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Look out for the resident Labour stooge, and IRA apologist David Dee to come round and tell you a few things you might not have known - like for instance, it wuz the SAS wot killed poor de Menezes, and the trouble on Bloody Sunday wuz all the Army's wanton violence against a peaceful gang crowd of armed flower-carrying IRA scum —  Telegraph Blogs
  • All thanks to the American installed puppet, drug-lord, war-lord, stooge, Karsick. —  Drudge Retort
  • All this spread after America installed their butt-stooge Karsick. —  Drudge Retort
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