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  • noun Plural form of backlasher.

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Examples

  • Yet most of the current grievances about Obama, from supporters and backlashers alike, can be understood as two variations on campaign themes.

    Ari Melber: The Right Campaign Metrics for Obama's Promises and Performance 2009

  • The Obama backlashers also deride the President for doing as he said, though with little disappointment, since they were never on board anyway.

    Ari Melber: The Right Campaign Metrics for Obama's Promises and Performance 2009

  • Not to join the obvious chorus of backlashers, but a warmed-over Dickensian fable dressed up to look like a prestige version of a Tony Scott film isn't our idea of a Best Picture winner.

    How to Win Your Oscar Pool 2009

  • Not to join the obvious chorus of backlashers, but a warmed-over Dickensian fable dressed up to look like a prestige version of a Tony Scott film isn't our idea of a Best Picture winner.

    How to Win Your Oscar Pool 2009

  • Meanwhile, the traditional media has ceded much of this ground to the backlashers in partisan conservative media.

    Ari Melber: The Right Campaign Metrics for Obama's Promises and Performance 2009

  • The vast majority of child-abuse allegations are valid, say backlashers; but sometime -- during bitter custody disputes or when daycare centers are suddenly swamped with rumors -- it's too easy for zealotry and hysteria to replace impartial investigation.

    Rush To Judgement 2008

  • The Christian right is far more than a pantheon of charismatic backlashers with automatonic followers of "old men and women."

    Max Blumenthal: The Press Discovers Pat Robertson's Real Influence (Thanks to the Other Monica) 2008

  • While the left fell apart under the strain of its own failures and the pressure of the New Right, the Dems 'axis of opportunism closed ranks with dyed-in-the-wool backlashers to excise the term “underclass” from the political discourse and replace it with the racial codeword “responsibility.”

    Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed 2008

  • I think many UPA backlashers incorrectly blame UPA for killing the Clampett/Avery-style cartoon, when UPA was really responding to early signs of the eventual death of that type of cartoon including the fact that, with the studio system collapsing, a cartoon studio had to learn more from industrial/commercial animation in order to stay afloat.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • I think many UPA backlashers incorrectly blame UPA for killing the Clampett/Avery-style cartoon, when UPA was really responding to early signs of the eventual death of that type of cartoon including the fact that, with the studio system collapsing, a cartoon studio had to learn more from industrial/commercial animation in order to stay afloat.

    Backlash Jaime J. Weinman 2007

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