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  • After finally seeing the much ballyhoed Clark comment, where he essentially repeated what his interviewer asked him, after his interviewer had already asked him the same basic question about six times, made me wonder again what planet the MSM is on to blow something so inconsequential so very far out of proportion.

    Webb Spokesperson: Um, No, We Didn't Attack McCain's Service 2009

  • The first international attempt to deal with global warming was the much-ballyhoed Kyoto Treaty.

    Waldo Jaquith - CNN takes on Sen. Inhofe’s climate change denials. 2006

  • As a couple of anthropologists who study American soldiers, we've been struck by the much-ballyhoed showdown between Avatar and The Hurt Locker, particularly because there's been relatively little said about the fact that the protagonists of both films are soldiers

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Henry said the much-ballyhoed nonprofit project has scheduled its first board meeting for next week, and has "secured an outstanding CEO and an extraordinary editor in chief whose names will be announced later this month."

    Random headlines from Syndic8.com 2010

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  • *facepalm*

    September 13, 2008