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When an agit-prop prankster approached Murdoch armed with a lethal paper plate containing shaving foam, it was the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Wendi who leapt to her feet and assaulted the "attacker" who dared to approach her inheritance.
Martin Lewis: A Big Pile of Murdoch: The Ultimate Legacy of Rupert Merde... Martin Lewis 2011
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All you do is spout agit-prop lines from the conservative playbook.
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This way, our debates remain civil since agit-prop from disinformation mills is a legitimate part of our discourse.
Matthew Yglesias » Washington Post Editorial Writers Should Read Their Paper’s Opinion Section 2010
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True, civics was deemed of no use in creating an ignorant electorate, so it was stripped out of the curriculum by the Republipimps in favor of presenting advertising and Reaganite agit-prop.
Think Progress » Ed Schultz Tells Robert Gibbs He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ And ‘You’re Losing Your Base’ 2010
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“The video in question,” he added, “looks more the product of jumpy civilians who can't tell a CW chemical weapon from a can of Raid and are anxious to aid the agit-prop efforts against the government.”
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Produced by the Workers Film and Photo League, an offshoot of a German-Russian left-wing group, it's a piece of agit-prop, complete with heroic labor, fat-cat capitalists and towering statistics with exclamation marks.
The Working Class Revealed Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Alistair Beaton's play, about Scotland's ill-fated colony in Panama, "leaves the heart untouched", said the Guardian, more in sorrow than anger; Charles Spencer of the Telegraph went full-throttle, calling it "a dreary piece of political agit-prop ... a punishing night of Brechtian parable theatre with a hard-left agenda".
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THE HUFFINGTON POST: We live in such an attention-grabbing culture, and creative agit-prop is no different.
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Christopher Morahan's production is stranded between agit-prop (the bosses wear pig masks) and realism.
Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010
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THE HUFFINGTON POST: We live in such an attention-grabbing culture, and creative agit-prop is no different.
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