yanker

• “Who, I take it, is channeled in the final scenes of I Am Sam, as Sean Penn revives a speech from my very favorite 1970s DH tear-yanker, Kramer vs. Kramer.”

  Melissa Kirsch: When the Soundtrack is Better Than the Movie

• “While Rove and Limbaugh, the diaxis of evil, have their old crank-yanker with the dicey health records hooked up to adrenalized life-support, they have their v-p candidate hooked up to the info-injection machine.”

  Kate Clinton: I Can See Manchuria

• “Extraordinarily interesting thread--Thanks to integrity for disclosing he is simply a bomb thrower, chain yanker and disrupter of the peace.”

  Look at the movement on Gallup's "strong and decisive leader" graph.

• “Last night some yanker used my name on a thread, so I had to file a complaint with Judd about it.”

  Think Progress » McCain: Bush Escalation Is Too Small

• “A male friend cut his hair & shaved off his beard for the first time in a decade when it became too much trouble with the little yanker.”

  Monday baby blogging: Daddy is the best mattress

• “Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker skip to main”

  Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker

• “Charles Krauthammer, chain-yanker: Most of our pundits enjoy the moral advantage of not being smart enough to realize when they are misleading the public.”

  Archive 2005-11-20

• “And again, all this time -- a very short time, considering the changes it made in everybody concerned -- Ferriday was Kedzie's alternate hope and despair, good angel and bad, uplifter and down-yanker.”

  We Can't Have Everything

• “I'm sure he gets this a lot, and I know I'm not the only person who thought this, but I just imagined the grown-up Cameron from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' wielding that tooth yanker as his angst-ridden Excalibur, extracting (no pun intended) his revenge on the evils of the world.”

  TV Squad

• “Without offering Obama a reasonable alternative to sending a wreathe, and by giving him less than a week to ponder an alternative of his own, they essentially were asking him to place himself in the role of scab-yanker on a holiday many Americans across the political spectrum view as a time of healing.”

  Daily Kos

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