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  • If personnel is policy, then reclaiming America for the common interests of Americans involves not only the permanent removal and discrediting of a generation of weak, corrupt Republican politicians, activists and lobbyists, but also of the major news editors of the country and the sycophantic pecksniff power pundits they employ.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: “Personnel is Policy:” It’s Time for Regime Change 2006

  • Chris Bowers exposes the lying bullshit about netroots activists you, Joe Klein and your other pecksniff power pimp sellouts keep hawking at the corner of 17th and L.

    Firedoglake » Internet Freedom Update: Breaking News and Action Steps 2006

  • So This Space was predisposed to dislike Chatterbox right off the top, even before This Space read how Chatterbox is most concerned on who leaked the info on Bill Sportin' Life Bennett, rather than why it's good for this sinful world every time a gluttonous pecksniff gets hoisted publicly on his own prodigious petard.

    Archive 2003-05-01 2003

  • Peggy excitedly babble-channels the expectations of a yet unborn child when an unwed nineteen year old lesbian playwright enters the cab and alarms Peggy with the opinion that Bill Bennett is a fat old patent leather busybody pecksniff with tiny feet and big old stupid sanctimonious puritanical morality fetish.

    Hullabaloo 2003

  • So This Space was predisposed to dislike Chatterbox right off the top, even before This Space read how Chatterbox is most concerned on who leaked the info on Bill Sportin' Life Bennett, rather than why it's good for this sinful world every time a gluttonous pecksniff gets hoisted publicly on his own prodigious petard.

    Eschaton 2003

  • I think that the stories of fundamentalist Bible Christians staying home in pecksniff resentment is mostly a myth.

    WBA Blog 2008

  • "And yet every time someone from my generation talks about how important phones are to democracy, there's always some old pecksniff primly telling us that our phones don't give us * real* democracy.

    Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow

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