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The activities described in the committee report, more often than not, have a kind of Keystone Kops flavor to them.
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The activities described in the committee report, more often than not, have a kind of Keystone Kops flavor to them.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Christopher Hayes, The Nation 2009
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"This owed more to the 'Keystone Kops' than 'softy softly'."
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"But that's not at all how it was reported; those generals gave this kind of Keystone Kops, self-flagellating, disingenuous apology -- 'Gee, we're sorry we screwed this thing up' -- and it was reported as
International Documentary Association - Sara Vizcarrondo 2010
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And Paul's gone there too, to talk us through those early years – of silent heroes and Keystone Kops, Mary Pickford, and the tedious three-hour racist epics of DW Griffiths.
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Keystone Republicans look like Keystone Kops on education reform.
The GOP Fails Pennsylvania Kids William McGurn 2011
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Yet dignifying one heavyweight right-wing talk show host is not particularly presidential, though in the ensuing smoke-out of the GOP, their leaders have behaved as Keystone Kops in Brooks Brothers suits, chasing the case of "It's the Great Socialist, Charlie Brown!"
John Wellington Ennis: Obama Should Debate Rush Limbaugh 2010
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"I did use stock photos of the Keystone Kops and the Three Stooges on several of my numerous blog postings, arguing the case against the Brazilians."
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"I did use stock photos of the Keystone Kops and the Three Stooges on several of my numerous blog postings, arguing the case against the Brazilians."
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The Keystone Kops could not have bungled the "intelligence" in this case any more spectacularly, and hilariously had it been a laughing matter, than the multibillion-dollar US security agencies.
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