Underlings

Underlings, regardless of how competent and accomplished they may be in their own right, often look up to, admire, and at times even adore their boss -- especially if that boss flirts with them and makes them feel special.

Jane Shure: The Hypocrisy of David Letterman 2009

Underlings can be badgered, chiefs are sacrosanct.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

Underlings use what power they do have: manipulation, deceit, passive resistance, even suicide.

Valerie Tarico: Church-Going and Torture Approval -- What's the Connection? 2009

Underlings in the Clinton campaign aided and abetted by their fellow-travelers at the DLC and AIPAC fanned the flames of Islamophobia that linked Barack Obama to radical terrorists in turbans lurking in the shadows and scattered across the face of America from Manhattan to Montana.

Michael Carmichael: Obama's Pivot 2008

Underlings rightly fear Sununu's power and vindictiveness, and none criticizes him openly; a senior Bush aide, assured of anonymity, calls him "the Saddam Hussein of bureaucrats."

The 'Air Sununu' Flap 2008

Underlings may pay, but those at the top will not.

Norm Ornstein: Where is the Accountability? 2008

Bush: Underlings refer to him as 'President Numbnuts.'

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said.

11/28/2005 2005

Underlings sensed Newbold's frustration, though he never voiced it to them; returning from meetings, he would simply point to the framed sampler that hung, and still hangs, on his wall: people are no darned good, it says.

The Night of the Generals Margolick, David 2007

And finally, Ahmadinejad: Underlings refer to him as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007