| 单词 | buffoon |
| 例句 | “Because you would make a joke of it, you old buffoon,” said Löfgren. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Except for the mishap with Tin Man—or whatever the name was going to be—I saw no sign of the buffoon Abigail had described. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z She would begin by describing some incident in which she was a sort of honest buffoon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t going to kill him, you buffoon.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Charles Darwin thought Buckland a buffoon–that was the word he used–but Lyell appeared to find him inspiring and liked him well enough to go touring with him in Scotland in 1824. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem to be outstandingly bright and many of his colleagues considered him little more than "an irritating buffoon." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I know how to hold it, you buffoon.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Left wheel! I said left wheel, you buffoons. You there, don’t you know the difference between your left and your right? Hold out your left paw.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “He was a buffoon, one of the great comic characters. He was always getting himself into extraordinary situations.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That somebody may have you written across the pages of some magazine as a buffoon and a clown has got to play upon your psyche as to how you perform, how hard you’ll push. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “What did you do, you buffoon?” she hissed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Clown! Bungling buffoon! Get out of the way! Shift your fat idle carcass and let Scragg take over.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Jason is a buffoon who's been laid off from his job, while his truculent mate Shane is a social worker demoted after the death of a child. Red Bud ? review 2010-10-26T20:45:00Z She also drew parallels between the brother-in-law and the British prime minister Boris Johnson, whom she said “gets away with so much by playing the buffoon.” How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z I rolled my eyes, thinking to myself: What a bunch of buffoons these New York literary agents are. I wrote my way to true love 2013-02-14T01:00:00Z Part of the academy’s BAMkids series, the production features three lively buffoons in workmen’s overalls who experiment onstage with huge, colorful blocks. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Zola isn’t some ghetto buffoon that just went on Twitter. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z She treated this like a play or a comedy: there’s a straight man, and there’s a buffoon. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z He can outsmart people in some legends, and in others he’s just a buffoon, or he’s a sex maniac, or he juggles his own eyeballs. Coyotes, the Ultimate American Tricksters 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Nekrotzar — part bogeyman, part buffoon — destroys the world, all right, or seems to. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z But once a narcisstic buffoon always a buffoon, and though SNL failed to make proper fun of Trump, others have succeeded admirably and memorably. Here are some of the top comedy bits on Trump. The 4 best comedic takedowns of Donald Trump you won’t see on “SNL” 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z There are times in these late poems when Murray consciously plays the buffoon — I will leave it to Freudians to analyze the pathology there. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Daphne explained that supernaturals were unaffected, so is that a suggestion that there's something more to Andy than amusing buffoon? True Blood: season two, episode seven 2010-04-09T22:10:00Z And these dads weren’t humorous buffoons, each advertisement took a look at fatherhood through an emotional lens. Super Bowl XLIX was the year of “dad-vertising” 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z On a show whose father figure is a buffoon out-of-step with polite society, uncomplicated enlightenment isn’t just unrealistic: It’s bad for comedy. A Coming-Out on 'The Simpsons' Shows How Toothless the Show Is 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It is a little perplexing, all the same, because Murray, self-evidently, is not the boorish buffoon he plays in his stage act and in fact seems pretty knowledgeable about Germany. TV review: Al Murray's German Adventure and Julia Bradbury's German Wanderlust 2010-12-02T07:59:00Z Elated by the crowd, the vain buffoon Absorbing every drop they send his way, Digests them like a tangerine spittoon, Extending lockdown day by endless day. Style Invitational Week 1410: Legends of the fall 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement was a crank, a buffoon and an unregenerate racist, who was never more vividly depicted than in this 2006 film by Nick Broomfield. Doctor Who 2010-04-17T05:45:00Z Gibbering newsman Commentator Runcible was a buffoon – it seems daft that a Timelord would complain of a bad hip, and the very idea of corruption in the Panopticon did not sit well for many. The Deadly Assassin: Doctor Who classic episode #8 2013-06-14T09:00:00Z Today, “Jim Crow” refers to the laws that codified government-enforced segregation, but the name originally came from a popular minstrel character — a fictional black man who would act like a buffoon in public places. A final night in blackface: Baltimore’s Al Jolson impersonator calls it quits 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But few viewers at the time were aware that the show, which lampooned German soldiers and SS officers as bumbling, vainglorious buffoons, starred several actors of Jewish heritage who had experienced Nazism firsthand. Robert Clary, Who Took a Tragic Journey to ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ Dies at 96 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z These days we hardly need another brooding crimefighter, but is this buffoon of a Hornet going too far in the other direction at the expense of the core values of the property? This one bought the rights and flew right over The Green Hornet's nest 2011-01-27T16:49:19Z This is ostensibly to remind us that dads are more than just the two-dimensional buffoons we see on TV and in the movies. A Brief History of Father's Day (and Why I'm Against It) 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z His protagonists were likely to be impaled by love’s harpoon, or swept away by a romantic typhoon, or treated like a buffoon, or finding solace only when marooned. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z The title character of George Kelly’s 1924 play “The Show-Off” is a boasting buffoon named Aubrey Piper — a vain, dissembling blowhard with an obvious toupee and galloping delusions of grandeur. Review: A ‘Show-Off’ Who Doesn’t Know When to Shut Up 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z He can play a slave or a thug, a buffoon or a saint. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It would have been challenging for producers to pick a slate of men who could match her physically, intellectually and emotionally, even if they weren’t invested in seeding the deck with fame-hungry buffoons and cryptoracists. Commitment Issues and Fraught Hometown Visits as ‘Bachelorette’ Nears End 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He plays Dean’s calculated smarm with such precise calibration that the audience loves him and finds him a complete buffoon in equal measure. Grandfathered and The Grinder: John Stamos and Rob Lowe's mid-career triumphs 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z That this fictional leader of the free world is a clueless buffoon in an Adam Sandler movie is another matter. Review: 'Pixels' Is Fun — for a Bit 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Klugman made him a man–rough around the edges, blustery, sometimes ridiculous but never a buffoon. Appreciation: The Odd Couple’s Jack Klugman, an Actor Who Could Crack Wise – with Heart 2012-12-25T15:00:06Z Someone who seems to combine both careers, however, is Boris Johnson, who manages simultaneously to be both London mayor and zipwire-swinging buffoon. John O'Farrell: the comedian turned politician with a shot at Eastleigh 2013-02-27T15:00:04Z Mainstream culture of the 1930s and ’40s had little room for African-American actors; they got work, if at all, playing maids, Pullman porters and buffoons. Remembering "Bronze Buckaroo" Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z I’m observing it, so we don’t need two buffoons for us to be able to take in this type of atmosphere and react to it. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Did his father's illness play a part in him being a class buffoon? Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z In this Franklin version, however, he — like others who have played the same role in it — is merely a harmless buffoon. ‘Coppélia’ Returns to American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z “They, in a last ditch effort, elected this buffoon to try to turn back the hands of time, which unfortunately does not work. We’re not Cher,” he said. WATCH: RuPaul says the White House is “imploding,” but resistance will work 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z During the 1960s and 1970s, he was successful in parts where he was cast as a loveable buffoon. 2010-02-06T14:24:00Z But Robinson imbues his buffoons with such compassion that you end up invested in their inevitable downfall. Rediscovering an Ambitious Sketch Comedy That Never Caught On 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The article garnered massive media coverage, made Rosenhan a star and made of psychiatry a hapless buffoon. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z It is not a sin to be an uncharismatic buffoon, but it is not electable, either, as Republicans in Indiana confirmed last night. TV’s election coverage is like an endless Ted Cruz GIF parade: Obsessed with micro-moments while the big Trump picture whizzes by 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z And for all his ecological fervour, the visiting doctor, Astrov, is also a drunken buffoon who, in his cups, engages in a disastrous bit of DIY carpentry with the Chaplinesque Waffles. Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-06T17:51:55Z I thought, "OK, I'm not done with whatever this buffoon is doing, real-estate wise." The art of making "vagina movies" 2010-04-29T17:55:00Z Cena makes all of this click, transforming the muscular manchild from a two-dimensional buffoon into a lost soul figuring discovering his purpose. HBO Max's uproarious "Peacemaker" remembers to have fun in a brooding superhero landscape 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Someone’s got to stick up for buffoons, they’re a large constituency,” Johnson jokes in the hotel room interview. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future They are not, though, always dissimilar onscreen, and in far too many movies, they tend to fall into reliably distinct camps of gaudy buffoons, heroic saviors or unrepentant villains. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Traveling through America as a bigotry-spewing buffoon, he confronts people with a series of “not” jokes posed as ethical litmus tests. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The one candidate offered is an obsequious buffoon. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Instead, in this warm, funny story about family, we learn that buffoons are people too. New Books From Joe Dunthorne, David Finch and Stef Penney 2012-01-18T22:38:31Z He was a sweet buffoon, altogether unmenacing, and hard to hear. Review | Overly sweet ‘Faust’ at Washington National Opera proves more cloying than addictive 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Dario Fo's satire "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," which opened this week, focuses on the interrogation of an alleged anarchist — or maybe he's just a delusional buffoon. Strawberry Theatre Workshop opens season of anarchists, activism 2012-07-05T20:53:04Z Sturges specialised in chumps, but "dolts", "bozos" or "buffoons" would be a more apt term for the principal characters here. Overlooked classics of American literature: The Feud by Thomas Berger 2011-08-04T08:00:02Z He may be no more than a blowhard and buffoon, but Trump has proven to be no joke. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z But here he's usually in on the joke versus playing the buffoon, and suffers the silliness of his employer with the tolerance of a parent with a bilious child. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z The man may be a vain, ethically obtuse, generally clueless buffoon, but it would not occur to him to allow a fictional character on his air to sell a product. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z Austen makes buffoons of her characters, but she never dabbles in cruelty. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Simply lacing his silly statements through children’s illustrations presents Trump as a mere buffoon, a dancing bear in a tutu. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z "I love to play people who are way more confident than they are intelligent," says Theroux, who played similarly hirsute buffoons in the stoner comedy "Your Highness" and the biblical spoof "The Ten." Justin Theroux is the main course in 'The Leftovers' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The scamps and buffoons in Intiman Theatre's fetching new adaptation of Molière's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself" are a credit to their calling. Review: Intiman's 'Doctor' is in, with raucous results 2010-09-14T04:01:00Z I’m not necessarily agreeing with them, or saying that things would be so much better if we still had overeducated Upper East Side buffoons yelling at each other on TV. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Black-ish” may be full of racial themes, but it’s working a gimmick that transcends race: Dad as buffoon. ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial Issues 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I read the stuff Lester Bangs wrote about me and thought: “Oh no, I’m a buffoon! But wait: I am a salient blowtorch of nihilism. Cool! Wait, am I cool or not? I’m not sure!” Iggy Pop Is Fine With Being the Godfather of Punk 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z We’re not going to listen to some ridiculously haired buffoon peddling lies and nativism with hopes of riding a protest vote into power,'” Oliver said. John Oliver Warns U.S. Voters After Brexit: There Are No Do-overs 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z You can learn a lot about Costello and his outfit from this misplaced deification of junkie buffoon Doherty and his merry band of overrated minstrels because that's who the Tunics' punky skiffle most resembles. The Tunics (No 927) 2010-12-09T17:31:00Z “There were scores of people working on it, all called vice president this and that, and a lot of them were buffoons.” Only Fools and Horses USA – and other failed TV remakes 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z “Part of what I do is make it fall into place. You have to work at being a buffoon.” Willard Scott, TV’s Clown Prince of Sun and Showers, Is Dead at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating. The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort 2012-09-13T12:00:22Z In each case, a fool, perhaps even a buffoon, demurs before the corruptions and compromises of life. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z It would be unkind to call the duke a chinless wonder, even if his neck did end at his lower lip, but his son more than earned the description giggling buffoon. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z “I plume and I plume,” he sings, “like a buffoon.” Perfume Genius’ Video for “Fool” Captures the Pain of Performing a False Self 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z For Shakespeare, the spectacle of working-class buffoons trying to stage noble tragedy seemed to be inherently ludicrous, but later artists targeted their mockery at the élites themselves, re-centering their stories on figures from the margins. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z As had been the case in The Producers, Mars's character – a preening, velvet-suited geologist – represented one buffoon among a parade of eccentrics. Kenneth Mars obituary 2011-02-15T18:47:58Z Instead there’s a tricksy buffoon named Sganarelle, a servant who impersonates a doctor — and then the doctor’s brother, too. Review: ‘The Flying Doctor by Molière (over and over and over)’ Revels in Repetition 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The elders, who have been comic-support buffoons for much of the series, were once kids bursting with their own hormones and punk rebellion. ‘Derry Girls’: And Now Their Troubles Are Ended 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The hedge-fund guys, who are recurring characters, are generally portrayed as greedy buffoons, which is representative of the show’s approach. Review: ‘Madoff,’ What He Was Thinking 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z You almost have to find another way to get to him because just making him look like a buffoon is not enough. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But so far this season, Ms. DioGuardi has been recast as, variously, a buffoon, a tart, an emotionally tone-deaf den mother. Music: On ?Idol,? Shifts in Power, Not Talent 2010-02-22T22:51:00Z In another treat, the film closes with a ridiculous skit in which Hart leads a band of buffoons in a bank heist. 'Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain': a comic tour 2011-09-15T19:23:05Z Block can come off like a self-centered buffoon, a stereotypically neurotic Jewish New Yorker out of a Woody Allen film. "The Kids Grow Up": Invading your daughter's privacy to make a film 2010-10-27T01:02:00Z Far from a “Mr. Mom” buffoon, he might even be considered a postmodern form of hunk, despite his spittle-stained sweatshirts. Dads Are Taking Over as Full-Time Parents 2012-08-10T20:54:32Z He is a savior or a disaster; a bigot or a patriot; a truth-teller or a buffoon; a commanding front-runner or a bubble on the verge of bursting. What ‘The Apprentice’ Taught Donald Trump About Campaigning 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z It was perhaps the darkest moment for a character who has largely been relegated to buffoon status, but Ruck sees Connor’s ignorance as his main political tool. Alan Ruck Is Ready to Leave the Roy Family 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Or was it something else: Hollywood's fear that audiences don't want to see women behaving like buffoons when they could watch Kate Hudson or Katherine Heigl pining for some lovable rogue? "Bridesmaids": A triumph for vomit, and feminism 2011-05-10T20:11:00Z I called Donald Trump a clown and buffoon when I appeared on CNN, but Hillary Clinton in many ways is worse. Our nominee is a disaster: Time may be running out, but Democrats will come to rue Clinton over Sanders 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The main problem with gossip is not even that it is often irrelevant and possibly wrong, but that it is simplistic, and tends to turn people into two-dimensional villains or buffoons. Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Colbert's bit did an excellent job of pointing out what a bunch of buffoons these so-called patriots are. Rush Limbaugh’s toxic patriotism will be his worst legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The ignorant buffoon Donald Trump is their direct and stark opposite. Which Americans are disposable? The lessons “Space Traders,” James Baldwin and the rise of Donald Trump 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z They thought he was a buffoon, a drunken idiot. The Cult: 'We're the Fulham of rock music' 2012-08-23T19:00:03Z Hadary’s Tevye is funny but not a buffoon, warm but not schmaltzy — and, boy, does he connect to his increasingly rebellious daughters. ‘Fiddler’ at Arena: A match It had sympathetic leads, antagonists, buffoons, and eccentrics, but it was also willing to flesh out and dimensionalize its whole ensemble. Six Ways The Office Mattered 2013-05-16T09:45:58Z Speaking on a Gdansk radio station, he said he was uncomfortable that in some scenes the actor who played him "portrayed me as a buffoon, who was a bit conceited." Walesa, Poland's flawed hero, given redemption in film 2013-08-14T16:08:54Z After all, he is an orange-haired buffoon who became famous in the 1980s and remains popular despite being sneered at by the elite media. How Carrot Top Wins in Vegas (Yes, He Can Be Funny) 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z He doubts that such a buffoon could really be an enemy of the king, but takes on MacAuslon’s task anyway, because the Code of the Woosters — “Never let a pal down” — demands it. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z And with Mr. Black in a buffoon’s role, “The Brink” feels like two different movies spliced together: “School of Rock” meets “Dr. Strangelove.” Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But, if Brook is deeply attentive to the music, he also champions Schikaneder who, he points out, was no lightweight buffoon, but a shrewd Viennese actor-manager who had once played Hamlet. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z Franco is a pugnacious buffoon with a gnawing Napoleonic complex who just wants to prove that he was no fool. | 'Spy Garbo': Long Gone, but Fighting Hard Not to Be Forgotten 2011-03-11T22:33:28Z But the Actor is not just a buffoon. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z When solo shoots second, he's a buffoon; a doofus who lucked out because a bounty hunter can't hit a two foot wide target three feet from him. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The villainy and callousness of these buffoons felt palpable across almost two centuries. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Be the buffoon they think you are: there’s something very restful about being viewed as little more than a ludicrous, cash-dispensing flesh puppet. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The rotten-toothed, sweaty antihero — whose glasses magnify his eyes to a cartoonish degree — is portrayed as a buffoon until the moments when, again and again, he suddenly snaps and starts hitting women. ‘The Golden Glove’ Review: Honka, Portrait of a Serial Killer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z At first, his father, Abdul-Razak, is a harmless buffoon with grandiose dreams. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The correct, the only, response is to laugh along, conceding that, yes, you were born into fortunate circumstances, but this doesn't automatically mean that you are a painful buffoon, without an ounce of self-awareness. What's up, you posh boys, can't you take a joke? 2012-08-18T23:06:40Z His replacement, Toby Oliver, is no slouch; he just can’t compete with a villain who has wandered too far from monster and too close to buffoon. ‘Wolf Creek 2’ Features an Even Scarier Australian Outback 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Lee writes the Klan as a collection of buffoons who nearly salivate while beholding their blackface scripture, D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation.” The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z I’ve had a lot of people ask me, “Well, how can they listen to this buffoon?” and “How can they take him seriously?” Our festering American rage: Why “it doesn’t matter if Trump lies” 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Leo Bill plays the German officer as an English buffoon. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z This guy is maybe a bit of a buffoon, but he’s very calculated.” A Go-To Guy, if You Want a Do-Nothing 2010-02-27T03:18:00Z He was a marvelous paradox: an alienated Everyman, a dignified buffoon, an avatar of ordinary Italianness menaced on one side by modern materialism and on the other by the encrusted legacies of feudalism and fascism. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z “It is slightly insulting that they portrayed the king of England as a buffoon,” he said. ‘Hamilton’ Opens in London. Does Anyone Know Who Alexander Hamilton Is? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “But never mind: He was a lovable buffoon.” ‘Hamilton’ Opens in London. Does Anyone Know Who Alexander Hamilton Is? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Sitcoms about men in their 20s seem to arrive at the conclusion that their characters might be buffoons but, at bottom, they're decent guys. Teen Undertaker 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z She’s amused by the commercial, but her husband never gets on board, seemingly unclear whether he’s just been made into a folk hero or a buffoon. Television Review: Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path 2011-06-23T22:31:27Z His son is too young to understand that he’s a vulnerable buffoon. Review: In ‘The Arab of the Future 2,’ Back to Syria in 1984 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It turns out that Jonah Hill is a prissy buffoon given to harping on about his Oscar nomination. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z “I never had an interest in meeting him. He’s a buffoon.” Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’ 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Of course, we’ve enjoyed our share of villainous presidents, whether they were ineffectual buffoons or blustering pretenders to the Resolute Desk. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z His hair is grayer and thinner now than at the onset of the Clinton administration, but he retains the same Ivy League glee at skewering buffoons. Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office What all his buffoons share is a misplaced smugness and blinding lack of self-awareness. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Try looking on the bright side of life: The delightfully barmy musical “Monty Python’s Spamalot” just opened at 5th Avenue Theatre, in a production stocked with some of Seattle’s A-team of stage jesters and buffoons. ‘Spamalot’ is a successful quest for laughs 2014-02-08T03:50:51Z In both films, McCarthy plays her trademark brash, self-unaware but endearing buffoon in the same vein as Will Ferrell, a producer of "Tammy." In 'Tammy,' Melissa McCarthy returns to Midwestern roots 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The 1914 film, "A Thief Catcher," was missing for so many years that people forgot Charlie Chaplin made a brief cameo as a buffoon Keystone cop, with his familiar twitches and gestures. Long lost Chaplin film to debut at Va. festival 2010-07-15T15:28:00Z Humor in the films was supplied by Nigel Bruce’s clueless Doctor Watson, a lovable buffoon who was always bewildered by the case at hand. Critic’s Notebook: How ‘The Seven-Per-Cent Solution’ Reinvented Sherlock Holmes 2013-01-26T01:12:34Z She replies: “Oh god. Is that why you were acting like such a buffoon? This obsession has got to end!” In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “Jolly, very funny, great buffoon,” was how she described him, acknowledging that buffoon was perhaps the wrong word. Joan Collins Just Gets on With It 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z And Holmes — rendered here as something of a preening buffoon — sashays smugly around one crime scene only to fall splat onto key evidence. David Arquette falls flat as Sherlock Holmes at the Warner Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z For Branagh he took on roles including King Lear, Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" and the buffoon Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." British actor Richard Briers dies at 79 2013-02-18T14:34:08Z The Oscar-winning director hopes his documentary will help people better understand a leader who Stone said is wrongly ridiculed "as a strongman, as a buffoon, as a clown." Stone: Film an intro to Chavez and his movement 2010-05-29T03:20:00Z Across the Atlantic, Hitler and Mussolini are thriving, but this homegrown pol seems more buffoon than threat. ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ Review: A Not-So-Subtle Slide Into Autocracy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Since the show first aired, McElhenney has been contacted on social media by a number of game developers who all assumed that they alone were the inspiration for the preening buffoon. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The comedian even took a jab at Trump by calling back to a joke he made October 24 thanking "racist buffoon" Trump for providing "Borat 2" with free publicity. Sacha Baron Cohen targets Mark Zuckerberg after Trump defeat: "One down, one to go" 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Those who don’t call him a buffoon, clownish, arrogant and pompous. Boris Johnson, London’s lively mayor, writes about Churchill and muses about his future When Carson made a gaffe, it made him look weak and like a buffoon. How God’s will and an awful lot of PAC money made Ben Carson seem like a legitimate candidate 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Before long Mr. Reed, a self-described shy man, became known for his subtle, surprisingly sympathetic characterizations of Gilbert and Sullivan’s buffoons. John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan?s Patter Songs, Dies at 94 2010-02-28T04:19:00Z Related: Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight When she was a pro fighter, Carano had to assess the physical condition of her opponents in the ring with just a glance. Deadpool: ‘I don’t think my mom is going to be able to watch it’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The snobs and arrivistes of her England are remorselessly skewered; every aristocrat is a buffoon or a monster. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z She faced a nasty, crude buffoon Who cared not to be diplomatic, A hypocritical cartoon Whose baggage was most problematic. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Lately, however, Trump has become something closer to a media buffoon—except that he does not seem to be joking. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z At the end of day the three are complete buffoons. 2010-01-23T04:10:00Z Lancelot “went from being a buffoon, like Gaston in ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ to a three-dimensional person.” ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Just last year a circus clown ran for Congress with slogans like “Why not elect a real buffoon to office?” and won by a landslide. Comedy: A Brazilian?s Comic Mania: Social Media 2011-08-04T12:00:00Z Another target is those trying to scotch Tartuffe's plans, who tend to be stubborn buffoons with their own self-centered agendas. Taproot's 'Tartuffe' has 17th-century setting but a story that resonates today 2012-02-16T21:40:06Z El-Fayoumy butters up the judge and blurts inane objections; this buffoon is the play’s comic fail-safe, and Scott McCormick nails punch line after punch line. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ The manner in which Wilmore expressed his annoyance—an unfamiliar abrasiveness in contrast to Colbert’s intellectualized buffoon—likely turned some viewers off, as well. Larry Wilmore's Show Wasn't Built to Survive 2016 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The shows offered a striking counterpoint to the previous stereotypical portrayals of blacks as buffoons in mainstream films, books, theater, advertising and cartoons. ‘Funky Turns 40’ Show Recalls a Seminal TV Moment 2014-03-19T17:25:11Z They depict the former president with a long, penislike nose and a scrotum for a face, and make him out to be a buffoon as he delivers a speech or visits China. President Trump Has Inspired Art. That’s Not Always a Good Thing. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z If the TMZ Selfie Tour could help me look like even slightly less than a ham-handed buffoon in pictures of my own taking it would be worth the price. TMZ's new 'selfie' tour of Hollywood isn't just for Gen Z 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's because Trump is a cowardly buffoon and a sexual predator, exposing toxic masculinity for what it is. From 9/11 to Netanyahu: The world is learning that toxic masculinity won't keep us safe 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z An underappreciated segment of Americans wants that entertaining buffoon in the White House. "Trump is in the final stage of cult leadership": Fulton County arrest elevates his MAGA "martyrdom" 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z But she described him as “a buffoon,” with a tendency to “pontificate.” Legacy of Boris Johnson Looms Over By-election to Replace Him 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z But once Trump won, Graham turned himself around quickly, seeing an opportunity to school the buffoon on foreign policy. The writing is on the wall for Lindsey Graham 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z He will be exposed as the traitorous, incompetent, callous buffoon and charlatan that he really is. Donald Trump still thinks he can escape this — but Jack Smith has him cornered 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z "It's a deeply embarrassing document that portrays Trump as a weak and incompetent buffoon rather than the valiant warrior against the deep state his followers have so long believed him to be," Lurie wrote. "He's scared sh**less": Trump melts down on Truth Social after he's arraigned on 37 criminal charges 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z White characters are mostly buffoons with no redeeming value. Column: Why the Flamin' Hot Cheetos movie is both pandering and pernicious 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Equal parts buffoon and autocrat, bully and effective strategist, absurd and scary. The news media coverage of Donald Trump keeps getting worse 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z But back then, only science fiction writers could have foretold the tech revolution and the galaxies of social media platforms that formed a new universe of exhibitionist buffoons. Opinion | TikTok might be part of a plot to make us dumber 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The Spanish court employed many people with dwarfism, as well as jesters or “buffoons,” as they were called. Perspective | When Velázquez painted marginalized people, it liberated his genius The judge disqualified jurors who he said had variously described Musk as an “idiot” and a “buffoon.” Elon Musk rebuffed in bid to move Tesla tweet trial to Texas 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Wolff recalled “the high pitch his voice took on when he recounted an absurdity committed by some blazer-wrapped buffoon of world soccer.” Grant Wahl’s life celebrated at New York City gathering 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z It's also true that Walker's embrace by the Republican Party cannot be understood as something independent of racism and white supremacy as he fulfilled the stereotypical role of a Black buffoon. Trump and his movement are symptoms of America's profound disorder — but not the cause 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Jiang sometimes came across as a buffoon, an image reinforced by his habit of combing his dyed jet-black hair at public gatherings. China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z It shows him crouching on the ground with clasped hands, dressed in the green of a buffoon, with a gourd on either side. Perspective | When Velázquez painted marginalized people, it liberated his genius However he may choose to play the buffoon. Is this really the end of Twitter? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “It makes me really sad that our leadership in the Republican Party is so lacking that we would champion this buffoon,” she said. For Weary Georgia Voters, Senate Runoff Brings a Sense of Déjà Vu 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z How dare they so cynically use this buffoon as a shield for their obvious failings to meet the needs and expectations of Black voters? Trump and his movement are symptoms of America's profound disorder — but not the cause 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z And the media was fine going along with them: After all, this was a time when the only Black faces on TV were portrayed as criminals, minstrels or buffoons. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z All of a sudden, this orange-crusted buffoon has forgotten my name. Michael Cohen: N.Y. fraud case will "financially destroy" Trump — and may put him in prison 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z But where Mr. McCarthy has accused her of partisanship and abuse of power, Ms. Pelosi, who colleagues say abhors spinelessness and stupidity, has accused him of acting like a buffoon. For Pelosi and McCarthy, a Toxic Relationship Worsens as Elections Approach 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “And we weren’t like those Wall Street buffoons,” she continues, “the nouveau riche ones you can see coming a mile away by the supernatural glow of their teeth veneers.” Review | ‘The Complicities’ tackles the large and small ways we ignore misdeeds 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a crying shame that essentially he has evolved into the person he is now,” said Anderson, who described his former colleague as a “subservient buffoon that unfortunately has forsaken his oath of office.” Michael Flynn: From government insider to holy warrior 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z And the media just went along with them: The only Black faces on TV were criminals, minstrels or buffoons. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Now, all of a sudden, this orange-crusted buffoon has forgotten my name. Michael Cohen: N.Y. fraud case will "financially destroy" Trump — and may put him in prison 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z On the wrong person, it makes the wearer look like a buffoon. Column: Good riddance to Angels owner Arte Moreno and his sombrero of shame 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z With his expressive face and gift for mimicry, he played Agarn as something between a rogue and buffoon, entangled in one misfiring plan after another. Larry Storch, comic actor in TV sitcom ‘F Troop,’ dies at 99 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z A new game is taking its place, one where narcissistic buffoons, who stoke the fires of hate and only know how to destroy, entertain us to death. Jan. 6 committee is spectacle taking the place of politics: It will accomplish nothing 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But he’s a buffoon, a cartoon character — Voodoo Jack, the bad guy in a Scooby-Doo episode. LOVERRO: Del Rio’s free speech costly for Commanders 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z "He's a buffoon, he did wrong. But personally I think the other issues he's handling well," she said. Sue Gray report: 'I wish I'd taken a fine to be with my dying husband' 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Blake Masters, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, says America’s leaders “are buffoons who hate you so … they’ll keep defending Ukraine’s borders while turning their backs on ours.” Opinion | ‘America First’ is America at its worst 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Instead of consistently sounding the alarm, America's mainstream news media and the larger political class insist on depicting him as a buffoon, a dotard or a harmless curiosity. You laughed at Trump for screwing up J.D. Vance's name. Did that save Roe v. Wade? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z "I am a bit disappointed. I thought Boris Johnson would be a good thing but he has turned out to be a bit of a bumbling buffoon." Peterborough: Cost of living dominates in Labour local election target 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z To liberals, this sounds great, and certainly better than raising the next generation to be a bunch of ignorant buffoons like Trump. What's the matter with SEL? Successful, well-adjusted adults are the GOP's kryptonite 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Cruz called Trump an “arrogant buffoon,” and refused to endorse the nominee at the Republican National Convention, which got him booed off the stage. Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z In response Cruz refused to support the presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention, calling him an "arrogant buffoon." Ted Cruz’s efforts to keep Trump in office 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z He complained of being labelled a "red gammon head" and a "ruddy-faced buffoon". Rosacea: 'Your skin doesn't define you' 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z We have drunk defenders, buffoon defenders and defenders who refer to their clients by the n-word. Opinion | Here’s why Biden should commute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z An MP said he was called a "ruddy-faced buffoon" despite his reddened face being the result of a skin condition. Gainsborough MP Sir Edward Leigh reveals abuse over skin condition 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Next time, no Viking-horned, pelted buffoons will be necessary; nor any attacks on brave Capitol Police officers; nor any crass congressional fist pumps to the rioters; nor, possibly, any difficult votes from federal lawmakers. Opinion | When Jan. 6 ringleaders escape consequences, our democracy pays the price 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Outwardly, he was a buffoon, but underneath it all was a deeply committed activist who was ready to risk his life to challenge injustice. Fascinating faces of 2021: The year's breakout stars, icons and pivotal artists 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “You were either a buffoon or a killer.” Analysis | From ‘Ted Lasso’ to ‘Insecure,’ TV’s therapists keep getting better (with a few exceptions) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Omar responded to the video with a tweet: “Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. … Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout.” Boebert-Omar feud explodes in failed makeup call 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up. GOP Rep. Boebert apologizes to Muslims for Omar remarks 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z “Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up,” Omar tweeted late Thursday. GOP Rep. Boebert apologizes to Muslims for Omar remarks 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z "Fact, this buffoon looks down when she sees me at the Capitol, this whole story is made up," Omar tweeted Thursday evening. Ilhan Omar fact-checks Lauren Boebert's "made up" "jihad squad" story 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z And the non-white folks we saw on TV were always, always depicted as either criminals or buffoons. Is the new GOP "Southern Strategy" civil war & bloodshed...and a return to "Leave It To Beaver"? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The courts in all tyrannies are dominated by mediocrities and buffoons. The corporate state came for human rights lawyer Steven Donziger — and we're next 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In a letter to the publisher of the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, Yagman wrote that the judge was “ignorant, dishonest, ill-tempered, and a bully,” going on to add “buffoon” and “sub-standard human.” A fraud conviction ended his battles for civil rights. 14 years later, Stephen Yagman is back 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Silwood, 50, denied the offence, telling police his message was “stupid not racial” and claiming autocorrect had changed a word to make it read “baboon” instead of “buffoon.” West Brom fan jailed for 8 weeks for racist post on Facebook 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Millions of my fellow citizens might become enthralled by a thuggish buffoon. Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Surely the American people would never elect such an incompetent person, a buffoon and professional-wrestling heel to the highest office in the land. Joe Biden will be impeached — because Democrats have forgotten how to fight 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The military and foreign policy establishment was strong enough to resist Trump’s mania for global abdication because the 45th president was a buffoon. Opinion | Trump wanted out of Afghanistan. Biden’s choice to follow through is a catastrophe. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z And it’s this whole bit and McCain thinks that this guy’s a total buffoon. The surprisingly old-fashioned way 'Daily Show' alumni stay connected 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Screenwriters instead reimagined Mexicans as Latin lovers, Mexican spitfires, buffoons, peons, mere bandits and other negative stereotypes. 'Bordertown' to 'Bordertown,' this Mexican writer's journey through Hollywood 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Many of the same people who are now laughing at Trump's fantasies also proclaimed in smug confidence that America would never elect a buffoon and fascist such as Donald Trump to the presidency. Guess what? The Trump coup against American democracy never stopped 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z He acts like a preening buffoon with pretensions of grandeur — doltish and delusional in equal measure. Opinion | Too many people are still underestimating the Trump threat 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z As Mr. Goodwin put it, “The fact that he is seen as a bit of a clown and a bit of a buffoon is priced in.” For U.K.’s Johnson, Plenty of Mud but Will It Stick? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The California GOP is willing itself to believe, like Wile E. Coyote or Sylvester the Cat or any other number of Warner Bros. cartoon buffoons, that this Acme-made trap will work this time, for real. Column: In recall of governor, is California GOP smoking an exploding cigar? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z It is sometimes hard to suppress a chuckle when watching the antics of these buffoons. Opinion | Which world leader has the worst pandemic record? The competition is fierce. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Heughan was more direct on Twitter in December, responding to the news that Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon would again push for independence by writing, “Time to escape being dictated to by buffoons.” With 'Men in Kilts,' 'Outlander' stars espouse Scottish independence. Gently. 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z These things are important, as one of the Guardian’s premier buffoons once argued. Cheltenham v Manchester City: FA Cup fourth round – live! 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z If only they had ignored him as the buffoon that he was, we wouldn’t have had to see the horrific ending to his time in the White House. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Capturing the content and context of the Capitol riot 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The dominant narrative in the American news media is that Donald Trump is stupid, a crook, a charlatan, a buffoon, etc. Dr. Lance Dodes warns we aren't rid of Trump yet: He "will continue to have no conscience" 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z “Outwardly, he was a buffoon, but underneath it all was a deeply committed activist who was ready to risk his life to challenge injustice,” Cohen says. Sacha Baron Cohen moves the needle of history with 'Borat,' 'Chicago 7' 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Corrupt Russian officials mistake a traveling buffoon for the czar’s dreaded inspector general. Movies on TV this week:'Citizen Kane' on TCM; 'Glory' on Encore 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z “I was trying to keep it cool, so that I didn’t sound like a buffoon, but I was really excited to do this.” Inside Netflix's quirky, nostalgic 'Sabrina' crossover 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Donald Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office. We've lost control: The real lessons of the Trump regime and the pandemic 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Poorly, because many of them saw Trump is just a buffoon, or believed the psychologically ignorant idea that he is just being clever. Dr. Lance Dodes warns we aren't rid of Trump yet: He "will continue to have no conscience" 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Two buffoons attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z But as a function of the desperate yearning for normalcy, many people in the news media and the public just want to make fun of him and call him a buffoon. Dr. Lance Dodes: Trump is "delusional at the core," will live in "fantasyland till the day he dies" 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z With his bad suits, stupid hair and clownish lies, Trump is a living illustration of why authoritarians worship power so much — because only power can imbue a buffoon as ridiculous as Donald Trump with importance. Trump's outrageous lies used to be terrifying — now they're just pathetic 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The dim-witted buffoon of commedia dell’arte, pining for his Columbine but outwitted by Harlequin, became the formula for the classic love triangle in opera and theater. Schoenberg knew. When the world goes mad, send in the clowns 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Congratulations to Democrats, who danced in the streets last weekend after ejecting a reality TV buffoon from the White House and replacing him with a tired career politician with a “D” next to his name. Perspective | Trumpism expanded the GOP tent. Don’t expect Republicans to abandon it now. 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z It's deeply disturbing that tens of millions of Americans voted for a tyrannical buffoon not once, but twice. If Democrats can't stop acting like losers when they win, America is doomed 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z "All the people I meet from other countries, I apologise. I don't want people to think all Americans are buffoons." US Election in Louisiana: Why lives depend on Donald Trump and Joe Biden 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z These oligarchs view the Christian fascists the same way the German industrialists viewed the Nazis, as buffoons. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Trump subsequently called Baron Cohen “a creep” and Baron Cohen responded on Twitter by offering him a job because, he said, he’s always looking for guys “to play racist buffoons.” Column: Why I'm not laughing at the new 'Borat' movie 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. 'Borat' star Sacha Baron Cohen offers Trump a role in next film: 'You'll need a job' 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. Let’s talk!” 'Borat 2' star Sacha Baron Cohen responds to Donald Trump's criticism of the film: 'I don't find you funny' 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z These corporations view the Christian fascists the same way the German industrialists viewed the Nazis, as buffoons. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z And as commander in chief, he possesses too much lethal power to be laughed off as a comic buffoon. Commentary: Who could make this up? Why 'The Trump Show' is such a crazy-making script 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z A buffoon incapable of becoming a “proper” fascist. Trump's 1776 commission is proof America is spiraling toward facism | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The central bank was too powerful, too important, to leave in the hands of buffoons and yes men. Opinion | Trump knows he’s going to lose. He’s already salting the earth behind him. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Even Russian state television now regularly mocks Mr. Trump as a buffoon, very different from its gushing tone during the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s New Russia Problem: Unread Intelligence and Missing Strategy 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, a lot of the responsibility rests with Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Robert Reich: America is exceptional in all the wrong ways 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But they have grown increasingly critical of Mr. Trump, often mocking him as a dangerous buffoon. Russian Court Sentences American, Paul Whelan, to 16 Years on Spy Charges 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Cotton may look like an American Alan Partridge, but he is no buffoon; he is a dangerous man with dangerous ambitions. Think Trump is bad? President Tom Cotton would be even more terrifying 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z One of the lessons of history is beware the buffoon, but when every day is so bizarre and distracting those lessons are hard to remember. 'How did we get here?': Trump has normalised mayhem and the US is paying the price 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z What kind of buffoon brags about taking a drug that could kill him? Trump's hydroxychloroquine habit is the triumph of rightwing quackery | Richard Wolffe 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z But today he is mocked on Chinese social media as a buffoon and an embarrassment for the U.S. Commentary: China's clear message to the U.S. on Hong Kong: Beijing will not back down 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Tucker Carlson questions whether Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is “right about the science” and calls him a “buffoon.” Opinion | Who needs science when we have Trump’s tremendous instincts? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Some of it is due to Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z But she called Trump “the most incompetent, foolhardy buffoon imaginable.” Opinion | She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next? 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Writing off half the country as buffoons with a death wish does nothing to help our nation to heal, whether it’s from pandemic anxiety or political division. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The counterrevolutionary stability of French society ended up being secured by a despotic buffoon — this might sound familiar — who relied on conservative ideology and the support of the peasantry for his election and subsequent coup. Bernie Sanders' campaign proved that organizing around class interests works 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But now, he said, “most fair-minded people recognize he’s not some mere buffoon but a person of considerable abilities, and everyone genuinely hopes he gets better.” Love him or hate him, Britons want Boris Johnson home from the hospital 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "And then, I think completely juxtaposed is just what an absolute irresponsible buffoon de Blasio has been." McCain slams de Blasio's handling of coronavirus pandemic: "What an absolute irresponsible buffoon" 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “Saturday Night Live’s” most celebrated political depictions fall in this camp, such as Will Ferrell’s take on George W. Bush as a charming buffoon. Analysis | The Onion created lovable ‘Diamond Joe’ Biden. Then it destroyed him. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Again, why are so many of them still afraid of the clown-faced buffoon at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue? Can John Bolton's revelations convince Republicans, at long last, to call Trump's bluff? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The hand of Dominic Cummings in projecting Johnson as different and more interesting than the rightwing buffoon image is already clear to see. Liberal, nuanced, cautious: is this the real Boris Johnson? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Eventually, “Frank” addressed the audience: “Good evening. You won’t believe it, but I’m as happy to see you guys as you are to see the show. I’m your resident buffoon, and my name is Frank.” Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Trump has shown himself repeatedly to be a malignant narcissist and when he looks in the mirror he likely sees a god rather than a hapless buffoon. America's first mercenary president: Donald Trump is blinded by greed and self-interest 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Anybody who could lose so spectacularly to that buffoon Johnson is clearly unequipped to lead anything more demanding than an allotment cooperative. 'This is the first time I cried': readers on the general election result 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s critically important to U.S. interests to maintain a credible leadership role on the global stage, and the more Trump is seen as a hapless buffoon, the worse it is for our foreign policy agenda. Biden hits Trump where it hurts, labels him a global 'laughing stock' 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It is already on its way to being forgotten, written off as the latest example of a Johnson being a bumbling, blue-blooded buffoon. Stanley and Boris Johnson express contempt for the British public. Why do we accept it? | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Trouble is, people like Marta are already demonized by bigger and crueler buffoons than the Thrombeys — and there’s no fortune waiting to save them. Knives Out is a great mystery that fumbles its big finish 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z There are people so desperate in America that they are willing to vote for an orange-faced buffoon or mobbed-up New York real estate guy. Radio host Thom Hartmann: If Trump's re-elected, "we may slide into straight fascism" 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Trump, meanwhile, was viewed by the news media and most serious political observers as a buffoon, the gimp at a political freak show. Don't get suckered by the polls: Donald Trump will win again — unless we fight for democracy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Sondland first entered this feature-length catastrophe as an ironic counterpoint to the doomed buffoon who has alternately dismayed and disgusted us for the last three years. Gordon Sondland was a perfect fall guy, until he decided to tell the truth | Richard Wolffe 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “He’s an idiot. He’s a fool. He’s a buffoon. He’s silly. He’s tacky. He’s dangerous. That stupid show 'The Apprentice,' people bought it. They buy into it… They created a monster.” Robert De Niro bashes 'low-life,' 'buffoon' Trump and says he'll 'ruin this country' 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In response, Paul Whelan likened himself more to the dopey buffoon that is the character Mr. Bean rather than the cunning spy that is James Bond. Ex-Marine held almost a year in Russia on spy charges says he is Mr. Bean, not James Bond 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Waititi also plays Hitler in the film, portraying the Nazi dictator as a benign buffoon, modernizing much of the character’s casual dialogue. Newsletter: Are Oscar voters ready for a Holocaust comedy? 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z "He's not like you see him on television," says Charlotte, "he's not a buffoon, he's courteous." Harry Dunn: Parents' grief on hold after US trip 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “People mistake a willingness to eat cheeseburgers and drink Coke with being a buffoon, and he’s not a buffoon.” ‘You’re a prop in the back’: Advisers struggle to obey Trump’s Kafkaesque rules 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Rather, he/she appeared to be a Republican who sincerely believed Trump is a dangerous, amoral, and unprincipled buffoon who was acting “in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.” One year after the anonymous op-ed from a senior Trump admin official 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Brigitte Anton, 52, said that people think Johnson is “a bit of laugh and a buffoon” when, in fact, he is treating Parliament with “contempt.” Anger over Brexit push without Parliament reaches Boris Johnson’s doorstep 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Waititi portrays Hitler as a benign buffoon, modernizing much of his character’s casual dialogue. Taika Waititi didn't want 'Jojo Rabbit' to be a sad Holocaust film. So he added Adolf Hitler. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Why are the technocrats who held sway almost everywhere a few years ago giving way to extravagant buffoons? From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs | George Monbiot 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Lucky for Mr. Mueller and his family, he had come to the one place in America where he was not the biggest buffoon in the room. House Democrats should be rounded up, arrest for elder abuse 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Well, no, we're in France this is just another provocation by this buffoon. How the far right targets female MPs 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z “Trump has perfected the act of selling swanky diplomatic posts to rich buffoons,” she said. Buttigieg wants to bolster youth volunteerism, Booker sets sights on immigration 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Quite frankly, they've spent the last two and a half years or more calling him a buffoon. Tomi Lahren wants "difficult conversations." This is one of them 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z We are mesmerised by buffoons who encourage us to channel the anger that should be reserved for billionaires towards immigrants, women, Jews, Muslims, people of colour and other imaginary enemies and customary scapegoats. From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs | George Monbiot 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Here we are, stuck with a dangerous buffoon in place of a real president. Trump in North Korea: history as farce first time round | Michael H Fuchs 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Trump is in many ways a buffoon, but he remains extraordinarily talented at setting the agenda and making people campaign on his terms. Opinion | Elizabeth Warren and the double standards for female leaders 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Sitcoms portray dads as buffoons who stumble through each day and can’t seem to get anything right. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “We only have so many cinematic heroes in that way. He can be funny and he can be sarcastic, he can be all these other things — but he can’t be a buffoon.” Three generations of 'Shaft' bring the 1970s hero up to date 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The result was catnip for conservative partisans eager to paint the congresswoman as a drunken buffoon. Facebook should do more to stop malicious propaganda videos 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But here we are, stuck with a dangerous buffoon in place of a real president. Trump in North Korea: history as farce first time round | Michael H Fuchs 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Judy Stavitz of Toms River, N.J., who badly wants Trump defeated, said that the mold of what kind of person can be president “has been broken by the buffoon in the White House right now.” Analysis | Nos. 44 and 45 broke the mold. What does that mean for the future of the presidency? 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The actor, who plays the commander in chief as a swirly-haired buffoon on “Saturday Night Live,” on Monday mulled running against Trump, asking on Twitter whether his 1 million followers would vote for him. Alec Baldwin plays President Trump on SNL. He asked Twitter if he should play president in real life, too. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Setting aside the dangerous buffoon who currently holds the office, the presidency is, among many things, a diplomatic position. Joe Biden's handsy behavior creates a problem for Democrats: Is he really the "safe" choice? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z We saw it in the way she was questioned relentlessly about relatively trivial matters like an email server while Trump was treated like harmless buffoon. It's not sexist to question Amy Klobuchar's management style | Jessa Crispin 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, my buddy Cowherd constantly berates Westbrook as a selfish, stat-stuffing buffoon whose teams just happen to win a lot more than they lose. Perspective | The NBA All-Star Game is pointless, but actual NBA games are full of intrigue 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z He ruins the game with his random thoughts and acting like a buffoon. Backtalk: Times readers sound off on Bill Walton, Huskies, Mariners 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Nationalists and leftists, though, remember him as at best a vodka-soaked buffoon and at worst a traitor working for the West. A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z White actors wearing blackface acted like buffoons in one of the first American epic movies, 1915’s “Birth of a Nation.” Blackface scandals highlight U.S.'s troubled racial past - and present 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Taylor alleges in a lawsuit that Haugaard said her column made the Legislature look like “a bunch of buffoons.” Judge allows lobbyist to return to South Dakota House floor 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z For decades, Stone has alternately played a clownish buffoon and serious political insider. Robert Mueller Got Roger Stone 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z He is at best a kind of amusing buffoon; at worst, an annoyance. Opinion | Why Does Paul Manafort Lie? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z A buffoon who barfed in the lap of the Japanese prime minister during a state dinner. Read my lips: Media’s love for George H.W. Bush more about hated of Donald Trump 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z He didn't exercise any serious oversight either, but did not behave like quite such a toady and buffoon. Devin Nunes protected Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. from Mueller probe: Democrats won’t 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s Jethro, a “big buffoon” with a heart condition and spinal spondylitis that leaves him swaybacked and crooked as he heads to gum at a chew toy in the play yard. Life goes on for misfit dogs that call Kamp Kritter home 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Afterward, Chamblee bluntly analyzed his own game, saying he “putted atrociously” and “like a buffoon.” Brandel Chamblee still has a competitive itch, plans to playing more senior events in 2019 - Golf Digest 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “Our president is a buffoon. . . . You got to send a message that Republicans didn’t stand up to the president.” Republican Gov. Larry Hogan wins a second term in deep-blue Maryland 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Molinaro angrily denied this, calling Mr. Cuomo a “classless buffoon” for bringing his wife — due with the couple’s second child in late November — into the race. Mayor at 19, New York Governor at 43? Molinaro Seeks an Upset Over Cuomo. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Trump is not just an inveterate liar and a bellicose buffoon with a yellow rat on his head. Trump is inciting violence, and now we have a MAGAbomber 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z There is a price to be paid for going along with an undemocratic, ignorant buffoon like Donald Trump and a Republican Party that has completely abandoned whatever democratic principles it once had. Trump, McConnell and Kavanaugh have changed the game; there will be no more business as usual 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Most of all, why weren’t ordinary people rising up against the dangerous buffoon who ruled them? How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise | Jeff Sparrow 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The sequel to Shakespeare has now resumed, with Boris the lethal buffoon taking on the role of Richard III as he plots a putsch at Westminster. Shakespeare in the age of Brexit and Trump: the play’s still the thing 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z China’s state-run media tends to characterize Trump as a clownish buffoon. Trump insists China respects his 'very, very large brain' 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z His is the costume of the buffoon; he is the leader of a country whose influence in the world has declined dramatically. The world laughed at Donald Trump 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Moreover, senators from both parties came off looking like buffoons. Why status of Kavanaugh confirmation process could become more clear on Friday 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z “A buffoon could have kept the recovery going,” said Jen Psaki, who was Mr. Obama’s White House communications director, “and in fact one has so far.” Trump Claims Credit for the Economy. Not So Fast, Says Obama. 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s necessary, the unnamed senior official argues, because Trump is a dangerous, amoral, and unprincipled buffoon who is acting “in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.” An unfortunate boast: 'This is a functioning White House' 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Rather, he/she appears to be a Republican who sincerely believes Trump is a dangerous, amoral, and unprincipled buffoon who is acting “in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.” Senior official: Trump's actions are 'detrimental to the health of our republic' 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Citing a litany of grievances, he observed that Quebec is a “catastrophe,” that the Left and the province’s separatists were conformist buffoons. Quebec’s ‘Trash Radio’ Host Fires Up Outrage, and Big Ratings 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s no course in existence that gives counsel on what to do when there’s a buffoon at the top. The truth about cats and Trump's dogs: civil discourse needed 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z How GOP leaders respond to this threat will determine not only the legacy of their political party but also the resilience of a political system they have carelessly ceded to a buffoon. Opinion | History will wonder why these men defended Trump but not their country 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The state of the country is, as in Q’s theories, horrifying, but also temporary, because these buffoons can’t possibly stay in power. How QAnon and Sacha Baron Cohen Speak to the Same Desperate Need 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Philip Roth said he could never have imagined that “the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the USA, the most debasing of disasters”, would appear in “the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon”. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z I asked Sanders to clarify his buffoon comment. The gospel of Elon Musk, according to his flock 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z He was the same buffoon he had been in New York when he ruled the tabloids with his marital exploits and buildings with stories he never built that we never bothered to count. Don't blame yourselves millennials (like you would), boomers created Donald Trump 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z That they became a knowing cliché helps the story, I suppose, because that makes them tragic figures, not buffoons. Why do people keep writing about the Replacements, a band that never quite happened? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z There were so many moments where the man claiming to speak for Trump made literally no sense, as if he was trying to make himself look like a self-contradictory buffoon. Donald Trump perfects the art of the self-contradictory interview | Richard Wolffe 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z They considered him a lazy, cavalierly uninformed buffoon. Why Early ’80s New York Matters Today 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z During the debates she knew her stuff and was arguing with a buffoon, but rather than showing any fire she exhibited an irritating smugness. Opinion | ‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z I loathe Trumps with every fiber of my being, but if his Korean peninsula escapade pays off, I have to say, I’d enjoy the irony of this complete buffoon Forrest-Gumping his way to peace. Treaty to Formally End Korean War Is Being Discussed, South Confirms 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Just like most strategies, you look like a genius when it works and a buffoon when it doesn't - whether the strategy was sound or not. Should the New Girlfriend of an Awful Ex-Husband Be Warned? 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Given Trump’s history and his apparently lifelong habit of surrounding himself with buffoons and hooligans, Daniels’ threat story doesn’t seem all that far-fetched. Stormy Daniels has spoken. It doesn’t look good for Trump – or us | Jill Filipovic 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z And people working for them know they're buffoons and the buffoons know that. ‘There Will Always Be Change,’ Trump Says as More Personnel Shake-Ups Loom 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I think most foreign governments see Trump for what he is, a buffoon and an embarrassment to the free world. Japan Fears Being Left Behind by Trump’s Talks With Kim Jong-un 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “Does he think acting like a buffoon is mandatory? Is this some sort of Speed situation? Somebody strapped a bomb to the country and if the president’s IQ goes above 55, America explodes?” Late-night hosts on Trump: 'Does he think acting like a buffoon is mandatory?' 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The Tonya of the film is surrounded by abusers and buffoons, trying her best to be free of them in the one way available to her. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z But they don’t know the magic spells that Trump knows, and they don’t have a TV show that makes any buffoon look like a real businessman. Trump's America will be saddled with debt – like his bankrupted hotels were | Richard Wolffe 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Even Adolf Hitler was dismissed by many as a buffoon.” If authoritarianism is looming in the US – how come Donald Trump looks so weak? | Corey Robin 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But there are other, and I believe more apropos, examples from history — namely Hitler and Mussolini, loud buffoons sweeping up all sorts of grievances and actual hardships into their theatrics. Opinion | Casting Aside Presidential Norms 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z They’ve long seem him as some kind of offensive buffoon, incapable of leading a great nation. Senate GOP passes tax breaks for the wealthy, 'civil war' ends 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z This ignorant buffoon and his minions are hell bent on destroying the environment, the economy, separation of church and state, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and voting rights. Trump Says His Regulatory Rollback Already Is the ‘Most Far-Reaching’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Brown and his 1966 documentary “The Endless Summer” created the modern image of surfers as spiritual seekers on a quest, rather than thugs or buffoons. ‘Endless Summer’ surf film director Bruce Brown dies at 80 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of Hitler’s opponents did initially dismiss him as a buffoon. If authoritarianism is looming in the US – how come Donald Trump looks so weak? | Corey Robin 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z One woman's idol is another woman's buffoon is another woman's predator is another woman's co-anchor... A Reckoning on Sexual Misconduct? Absolutely. But How Harsh, Women Ask. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But, like all great buffoons, Dina’s vortex of self-abasement is her gift to us. ‘Dina Martina Christmas Show’: The queen of deranged holiday cheer rides again at Seattle’s Re-bar 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A lesser buffoon, a more attractive speaker, would be able to sway a quisling Congress even further and more of the electorate. Opinion | Trump’s Totally Terrible Time 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Apu was one of the only Indian immigrants portrayed in popular culture and yet he was a buffoon. Comedians not laughing at character in ‘The Simpsons’ 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z That guy would be a world‑class buffoon, no? José Mourinho mistakes with De Bruyne, Lukaku and Salah haunt Chelsea | Tim Lewis 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z They see the president as a reckless and belligerent buffoon, a mentally unstable bigot, and an untrustworthy charlatan. The unusual nature of the Republican Party's 'civil war' 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Because Donald Trump often looks and acts like a buffoon, we treat his administration as if it’s a farce. America's soul as as nation of immigrants is in peril | Moustafa Bayoumi 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z To the right, Trump is an incompetent loudmouth, a shameless prevaricator and an undisciplined buffoon who threatens to destroy the conservative principles that make American great. Are there ways anti-Trump resisters and #NeverTrump conservatives can work together to rid us of our noxious president? 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z "Thankfully they realised we were bumbling around like buffoons and weren't a threat," Dickman says. How I slept next to a lion - BBC News 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z His aura was that of a trustworthy stalwart, and his success helped him shrug off the elites' view of him as a provincial buffoon. Helmut Kohl: Germany's 'under-appreciated' political giant - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z After Mr Trump as a presidential candidate announced his plan to ban Muslim arrivals, Mr Khan told the BBC that he hoped he would "lose badly", adding that he was a "buffoon". Trump renews feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan - BBC News 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z “Well, Mike is a buffoon, so he is similar to Trump in that way,” Walsh said. Matt Walsh comes clean(-shaven) on what happens to his mustache when 'Veep's' not filming 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z While Trump is off on his travels, playing the buffoon is one country after another, we are too busy watching him to pay sufficient attention to what is transpiring back in Washington. Donald Trump's embarrassing gaffes deliver a potent political good: distraction | Francine Prose 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The generals, especially the lightly camouflaged McChrystal character played by Brad Pitt, are cartoonish buffoons obsessed with their legacies and contemptuous of the U.S. civilians they serve. Perspective | I took an Afghan war vet to Brad Pitt’s bad, anti-military movie. He liked it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But if his father is written off as a buffoon, his example is quashed and his critique falls on deaf ears. LaVar Ball, the $495 sneakers and the battle against basketball's status quo 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Trump is also an ignorant buffoon, a racist, a nativist and a bigot. From Russia with hate: Donald Trump’s catastrophic presidency offers more proof that racism and sexism are destroying America 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z She portrays him as a lying buffoon who badgers the press. Tips for Sean Spicer: Cool down, be truthful and stick to the facts 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z “Congress can’t get anything done, and our president is a buffoon.” Suburban G.O.P. Voters Sour on Party, Raising Republican Fears for 2018 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z "It is pretty shameful when even Trump judges you to be a buffoon." Russian anger over Boris Johnson's decision to cancel Moscow trip - BBC News 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z “That incompetent buffoon was in over his head!” Perspective | Bruce Allen wants clarity. Here’s some: You screwed up. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z This is actually a very long season of The Office, with our new president playing the role of a self-obsessed buffoon who clearly thinks he’s smart, funny, kind and successful. Donald Trump's anti-press conference would be funny – if it weren't so scary | Richard Wolffe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z During that session, Trump was variously branded a racist demagogue, a buffoon and a “wazzock” by MPs, although the vast majority did not support the idea of excluding him from the UK. Parliament to debate Trump state visit after 1.6m sign petition 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The Donald is doing---speed up the inevitable.The big question is what will America do when it only is the dominant military power.With that buffoon as Commander in Chief----one can only cringe! Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The temptation to dismiss Trump as an absurd buffoon persists; and with each appearance he feeds it. To defeat Trumpism will take an extraordinary popular resistance | Owen Jones 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z It received more than half a million signatures, prompting a debate in Parliament, some of whose members described Trump as a “buffoon” and a man who invited “violent ideology.” Could a Trump visit to Britain embarrass the queen? More than a million Britons say yes 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z MPs described him as a “fool”, a “buffoon” and a “wazzock” in the lengthy parliamentary debate in January last year. Anti-Trump petition to prevent UK state visit passes 1m signatures 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z “We’ve been battling misrepresentation since our arrival into this country: the jezebels, the buffoon. We’ve been battling all that on a cultural front.” ‘The Obamas came from a place we all came from’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Putin and Tillerson give him withering, indulgent looks – toleration of this buffoon being the price they have to pay for a new, mutually beneficial relationship between Russia and Exxon. Jonathan Coe: will satire save us in the age of Trump? 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Historically, the problem of black male representation has been deep and pervasive, from outright negative stereotypes — lumbering servants, criminals and buffoons — to more subtle, but no less damaging, slights. Black Male Glamour, as Style and Substance 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And they’re not produced by cookie cutters: like any group of people, their qualities range from brilliant to buffoon. Why Trump Is Interviewing Generals for His Cabinet 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Fascism also arrived in the form of apparent buffoons: Adolf Hitler, shabby and sullen, and Benito Mussolini, whose almost desperate displays of masculinity struck many non-Italians, including one foreign journalist, as “absurd attitudinizing.” Six books for insight on a Trump presidency 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z He was being held to a higher standard than all the white buffoons who came before him, we were told. Obama arrogantly blames deplorable racists, says Democrats ‘have better ideas’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the nationalist buffoon who is a particularly vulgar yet ultimately feckless Russian version of Trump, threw a party with champagne in his Duma office. Is Putin’s Russia Ready for Trump’s America? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Biden the comic character – an incompetent, coarse, ungovernable buffoon – has emerged by consensus over the years. How Joe Biden became the US’s meme-in-chief 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In Mexico, even the least educated among us believe this man to be a buffoon. Mexicans on Trump's election: 'The power he has over us is terrifying' 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. 2016’s Big Reveal 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Before he jumped into the presidential race, Trump was seen as bombastic, vulgar, a bit of a buffoon and a cave man, but there was also, as Tina Brown put it, “a cheeky brio.” The end is nigh 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Sanders does not treat a wealthy bully sowing divisions among the working class as a phenomenon entirely outside the tradition of our country’s politics—as the freak appearance of a buffoon. Bernie Sanders’s Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Do you want a life-long public servant with an encyclopedic grasp of the issues, or a buffoon guided only by his own prejudices? Freaking out? Go vote instead. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The major parties offer a deranged rightwing sociopath provoking global war or a reality-TV buffoon with no actual policy, both of them hopelessly corrupt and staggeringly incompetent. US voters in their own words: 'This campaign has divided us in ugly ways' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z If the republicans hadn't had a train wreck of a primary that sent an un-electable buffoon through, the wiki leaks stuff would dominate the news, and very possibly determine the race. Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides, Emails Show 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Here we had this patently unqualified buffoon with no serious interest in public policy or political activism his entire life grabbing headlines as an Obama birther. Swift Opposition to Resurrection of AT&T Giant 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z So many times, they were buffoons with half-baked schemes. If you laugh enough, things turn out OK. Just ask a Cubs fan. 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Trump, Clinton suggested time and again, was a buffoon in politician’s clothing. The Debate Showed the Limits of Clinton's 'High Road' 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In Germany, many expressed bewilderment that Americans were even considering voting for Mr. Trump, whom they regard as a buffoon. Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton election proving just as divisive abroad 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z She can't even hold a lead against a buffoon rejected by his own party leaders. Theories of the Race: How Solid Is Hillary Clinton’s Lead? 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z As for Trump, hard-line media outlets and reformist ones alike have portrayed him as a buffoon. Iran Is Enjoying Our Presidential Election 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Granted he makes it easy, but the Times has been out front in declaring the buffoon to be unfit to govern for many months now. Anatomy of a Media Conspiracy 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Demagogue,” “buffoon” and “wazzock” — a semi-obscure Britishism meaning, roughly, “twit” — were among the insults that echoed off the drafty stone walls in the mother of all parliaments. Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z How is this ranting, seething buffoon still competitive with her? Some of Clinton's pledges sound great. Until you remember who's president 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z They've figured out how to get all that dough so that we can run a candidate who is in a dead heat with a buffoon. How Democrats Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Big Donor Money 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “On the other side, we have a buffoon to run the United States of America,” she said of Republican Donald Trump. With country ‘at a crossroads,’ women in state’s suburbs tilting Democratic 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z On Twitter, Trump called Erickson “a major sleaze and buffoon” and said that the “small crowds” at the gathering were due to his absence. How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Trump was described as arrogant, unbalanced, crazy, phony, a bigot, a buffoon and garbage. Focus Group Voters Reveal Disdain for Clinton, Trump 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Breaking with a century of tradition, the influential Union Leader of New Hampshire declined to endorse the Republican nominee for President late Tuesday, calling Donald Trump a “buffoon.” Donald Trump Just Made This Newspaper Break With a Century of Tradition 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “The man is a liar, a bully, a buffoon,” wrote Joseph P. McQuaid, the Union Leader publisher, of Mr. Trump in a signed editorial. Union Leader of New Hampshire Endorses Gary Johnson Over Donald Trump 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Trump is a menace and a buffoon in countless ways, but the idea that he is secretly doing secretly Putin’s bidding is beyond absurd. Almost everyone gets Russia wrong – apart from Obama | Trevor Timm 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z No one is arguing which quarterback should start, or whether a conditioning test is unfair, or whether the coach is on the clock, or whether the GM is a buffoon. ‘There is nothing to talk about': Media members adjust to the weirdly boring Redskins 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “I wish he wouldn’t spout like a buffoon,” Ward said. In Cowlitz County, blue-collar men see economy — and votes — shifting 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “The man is a liar, a bully, a buffoon,” Joseph W. McQuaid, the Union Leader publisher, wrote of Trump in the editorial. Donald Trump Just Made This Newspaper Break With a Century of Tradition 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The easiest thing, of course, is to fix Trump in one’s mind as just one thing — a buffoon, say, or a demonic demagogue, or a savior. Donald the Terrible: If Trump had a selfie stick, we’d all be in the picture 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Were the G.O.P. candidate any better than a buffoon, it would be easier for the mainstream Left to see what is wrong with Hillary. ‘I’m Resigned to Having a Terrible President’ 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Wisconsin didn’t exactly embrace Trump through the presidential primaries - one influential conservative radio host publicly belittled him as a “buffoon” and “clown.” Mike Pence tries to woo wary Republicans in Wisconsin 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z He sees the choice between Clinton and Trump as “four years of a buffoon vs. eight years of a genocidal warmonger.” Sanders Has Lost Control of His Political Revolution 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Frustration with establishment politics is so high that folks will vote for a misogynistic, racist, egomaniacal buffoon over a party insider. The system really is rigged: Why “winner-take-all” voting is killing our democracy 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z “His charming, bumbling buffoon image was neatly done and went down very well with audiences,” said Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye magazine and a panelist on the show. Luck runs out for not-so-truthful leader of ‘Brexit’ campaign 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Words such as “fool” and “buffoon” were used to describe Trump. Trump fundraising emails overseas prompt complaints here and abroad 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z One is a rank political novice, a buffoon, a mountebank, and a demagogue. ‘Brexit’ Is Locking In the Forces That Already Haunt the Global Economy 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Their leaders drew scorn from the university-educated elite as nativists, borderline racists and occasional buffoons. Here's what Britain's vote to leave the EU tells us about the U.S. presidential election 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “He acts like a buffoon, but he is not…For me he is the main man.” Leave campaigner Boris Johnson has a lot riding on EU vote 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z There was a time when white folks painted their faces black and staged “minstrel shows” lampooning African Americans as lazy, dim-witted buffoons who liked to sing. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z There are some Conservative MPs who think the campaign has stripped bare the buffoon, revealing an ambitious, unprincipled and insubstantial politician. Will there be a general election before Christmas? - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Pundits who laughingly dismissed Trump as a buffoon when he entered the race nearly a year ago are not laughing now. State of the 2016 race: Trump looks to take over America after conquering GOP 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z This Kim is not the satirised buffoon whose submarines sink and whose favourite dancing girls defect at the first opportunity. The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant’s son who wants to be loved and feared 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z It wasn't Trump you got wrong, but the Republican party, its voters and the buffoons in the contest. What I Got Wrong About Donald Trump 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But he appeared to lose momentum in the final days of campaigning and let his frustration with Trump boil over Tuesday, calling the billionaire “amoral” and a “braggadocious, arrogant buffoon.” It’s almost locked up: Donald Trump dashes Ted Cruz’s hopes in Indiana 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The Texas senator proceeded to call Trump a pathological liar, amoral, a narcissist and a buffoon. Trump beats Cruz in Indiana primary, clearing path to nomination 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He’s been calling out the Democratic and Republican strategy in foreign policy and national security for the last many years and the elites can’t stand that this buffoon is exposing the folly of their strategies. Neanderthals for Trump: How our primitive brains are ruining American politics 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The task required of Trump was not hard: Avoid being an insufferable, unstable, whiny buffoon for a few weeks. Is Trump sabotaging himself? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Trump’s a buffoon. With him as president, the U.S. will lose a lot of credibility in the world.” Mexicans celebrate holiday by burning Trump in effigy 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Both ads — and dozens more that portray Trump as a selfish, deceptive buffoon — are sponsored by fellow Republicans trying to derail the political outsider from capturing their party's presidential nomination. GOP groups trying to derail Trump painting him as selfish, deceptive buffoon in political ads 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Both ads - and dozens more that portray Trump as a selfish, deceptive buffoon - are sponsored by fellow Republicans trying to derail the political outsider from capturing their party’s presidential nomination. GOP ads give Democrats anti-Trump playbook 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z "And you rarely see a very overweight man in a TV ad or in a TV program or movie, unless they are playing the role of a buffoon or a bad guy," he observed. Many Men Have Body Image Issues, Too 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “While Trump is a buffoon, Cruz is the kind of guy that makes you want to check the closet, under the bed, and make sure the doors are locked.” Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer: the anatomy of a meme gone rogue 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that Trump is a buffoon. Think Hillary beating Trump is a lock? Think again. To get it done, Clinton must make big moves against big business 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Where the president is mature, Trump is a buffoon. Republican blames Trump's rise on Obama's level-headedness 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Problem for Trump's rivals: If he's threat to democracy, buffoon, con artist -- how can they easily say they would vote for him if nominee? Trump’s Breaking the Party – Soon He’ll Own It 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z He is indeed a buffoon and a recipe for disaster. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z A “buffoon,” another of McArdle’s correspondents wrote, which summed up the general mood. “Never Trump” and the Rise of a New Republican Respectability Politics 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z By this time, any of us could stand up and parrot anything those buffoons at recess on the playground could say, i.e. who will build the least expensive and highest wall!. In Republican Debate, a Feisty Marco Rubio Lays Into Donald Trump 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And it’s looking even worse for the Republican Party, which shows every sign of wanting to give its presidential nomination to an unelectable buffoon who would lose in a rout—to Bernie Sanders. The Trumpkins’ Lament 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z In the House of Commons, lawmakers described him with a flurry of insults: an “idiot,” a “buffoon,” a “demagogue” and a “wazzock.” Pope Francis joins a chorus of world leaders in condemning Donald Trump 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Minchin calls the cardinal a litany of names, among them "coward" and "pompous buffoon". Vatican finance boss George Pell taunted over 'cowardice' - BBC News 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The Kerry-Bush election was one in which voters were faced with a choice between two men no one liked that much, a Massachusetts ice prince and a buffoon. The truth about the Dem civil war: Bernie vs. Hillary might seem life-and-death — but it could always be much, much worse 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z There is a thin line between the entertainer and the buffoon, the difference being success. Cam Newton Doesn’t Dance Around Racism Issues 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z When a tea party activist Monday asked Carson whether he’s “too nice” for the job, he said he will not “yell and call people names and act like a buffoon” to win. An overshadowed Ben Carson trying to re-energize supporters 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z At other times in the debate, Trump was branded “an idiot”, “a wazzock” and a “buffoon”. U.K. Parliament Debates Whether to Ban Donald Trump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Trump was called a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a fool and a buffoon during the debate, which often felt deeply personal. Trump called a racist and buffoon as Parliament debates banning him from Britain 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “It appears #OregonUnderAttack by a bunch of undereducated terrorist buffoons who follow #ClivenBundy shall we send them to meet #ISIS,” he continued. Montel Williams calls for ‘massive use of deadly force’ against Malheur Refuge occupiers 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z And if the Granite State anoints a buffoon, why should it retain its cherished, and lucrative, status as first among primaries? Editorials from around New England 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z That man is a buffoon, an absolute buffoon. El Niño blamed for weather chaos – but California sees an upside 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z “He’s already a buffoon in a way, so I don’t think people are taking him seriously,” said Wael Eskandar, an Egyptian writer and activist in Cairo. Here's What People in the Middle East Think About Donald Trump 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z He was a buffoon, a disseminator of ludicrous rumors about President Obama’s birthplace. Republicans need to stand up to Trump’s bullying 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “The women around them have been rolling their eyes and going home and saying, ‘What a buffoon. Science and sexism: In the eye of the Twitterstorm 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The newspaper Pagina 12 recently published a scathing op-ed that accused the campaign of “resorting to one of the oldest traditions of aristocratic families of yesteryear: the black buffoon.” A Fictional Candidate Draws Attention, and Criticism, in Argentina 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Once considered the front-runner, Bush is trailing a clutch of candidates, among them Donald Trump and Ben Carson, who have never held public office and encourage comparison to buffoons. Where Jeb Bush Went Wrong 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Yogi Berra was not the clown or buffoon or nitwit as people want to say he was. A gay-rights advocate and businessman, Yogi Berra was more than a loveable dope 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Prayuth, 61, is often portrayed as a buffoon or a tyrant, thanks in part to public gaffes and threats that aides attribute to his abstruse sense of humor. Thailand's reluctant leader prolongs his grip on power 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Gehrig’s name shouldn’t be tainted by being linked to an angry buffoon. Dancing, onesies, magicians ... is baseball in danger of becoming fun? 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Coulter is a buffoon, to be sure, but a buffoon with a constituency and a purpose. Behind Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship: The far right’s dream of rolling back the Constitution, and reshaping America 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “He is a true gentleman, he really is,” the former said of the latter, after the latter denied having called the former “a clown” and “a buffoon.” Trump on the Ropes at the First Debate 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But in the public conversation Donald Trump is no longer the buffoon, the baboon, the clown or the country bumpkin from the corn and hay fields of Manhattan. WESLEY PRUDEN: The anger at Donald Trump softens 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He was a buffoon, with very blonde hair and a very red face, a potbelly starting under his flannel shirt. Verge Fiction: Model Organisms 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s on this level that Goldberg separates No Way Jose from the typical man-boy film, creating a sympathetic character dealing with these issues without being a buffoon. Adam Goldberg Directs And Stars In New Comedy No Way Jose 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Some say Trump is a pretender as a Republican presidential candidate, or just a buffoon. Amazing Disgrace 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The billionaire may play the buffoon, but he is an important one — one whom Americans appear to adore. Stop laughing at Donald Trump 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Trumped: He's been described as a buffoon and a demagogue – buffogogue perhaps? – who's exposed an unsightly xenophobic streak in the Republican primary electorate. Senate Cool to Iran Deal – if It Happens 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z That perception has made Trump, so often derided as a buffoon, an electric candidate. 'I'm, like, a really smart person': Donald Trump exults in outsider status 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is not only a legendary buffoon, he’s also a racist demagogue. Donald Trump’s long-overdue flameout: Why did it take so long? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In one of the show’s episodes, al-Qasabi plays a would-be “caliph” starting his own Islamic State group-style militia, but he’s surrounded by buffoons and hypocrites. Saudi TV show becomes a hit by mocking Islamic State group 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In one of the show's episodes, al-Qasabi plays a would-be "caliph" starting his own Islamic State group-style militia, but he's surrounded by buffoons and hypocrites. Saudi star of hit TV show poking fun at Islamic State group says this is the real "jihad" 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z She knew that some would see the people she trained her camera on as buffoons or threats to society, while others would see peers and role models. Talking to Penelope Spheeris about time, rock 'n' roll, and The Decline of Western Civilization 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr Galloway described current mayor Boris Johnson as a "blond buffoon". George Galloway enters London mayoral race - BBC News 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Or a buffoon who sends his goons around to a London hairdresser who dared to poke fun at his haircut. Kim Jong-un: Trying to make sense of North Korea's leader - BBC News 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The campaign endlessly mocked Bush as some kind of stupid buffoon. CHARLES HURT: John Kerry breaks a leg but misses ‘Live Shot’ moment as Middle East peace hero 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z After all, the fictional Hitler is something of a buffoon and at times is oddly empathetic to some of his colleagues. A novel about Hitler trivializes the Holocaust 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Prince Harry is, of course, other things, too: a soldier, fifth in line to the throne, a bit of buffoon, and – like his mother – good with children. Is Prince Harry the new Bridget Jones? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “Erdely seems to believe that her story was really ‘true’ – men who belong to fraternities are animals, and university administrators are corrupt buffoons – and she only chose the wrong vehicle to express these verities.” Rolling Stone Retracts UVA Fraternity Rape Story, Pundits React 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Then, as now, that president was portrayed as a simpleton, a buffoon and a coward. A rising insurrection against Obama 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Bentivoglio plays such an eager, ungainly buffoon that “Human Capital” initially looks like it will be a cautionary comedy of manners in a post-Madoff age. Review: ‘Human Capital’ is a stylish but ultimately obvious morality tale 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Robert Bingham, then the executive editor, told me that the book made Ross look like a buffoon when he was in fact a brilliant and sensitive editor, the greatest of his day. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z In television series of earlier decades, such as “The Honeymooners” and “All in the Family,” the working-class man was sometimes depicted as a buffoon or bigot. The missing working class 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Satirical cartoons—especially ones that painted King George as a buffoon—flourished in America before and during the Revolutionary War. Satire Is as American as Apple Pie 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Jones is a meddling buffoon who second guesses his own coaches. In Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys Have a Lightning Rod Made of Mettle 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z If New Jersey's favorite buffoon does indeed cannonball into the 2016 presidential race, maybe he could even pander for the women's vote and run with Lady Gaga. On Duty for the Chris Christie Hug Watch 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The faithful are ridiculed by the secular left, who see them as superstitious uneducated buffoons. ‘Charlie Hebdo, Before the Massacre’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Hadary’s Tevye is funny but not a buffoon, warm but not schmaltzy — and, boy, does he connect with his increasingly rebellious daughters. - The Washington Post 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Generally considered cranially vacant even for a bird, the turkey wasn’t always such a buffoon. How Smart Was That Turkey And Ham Before It Became Dinner? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z She called Eichmann “terribly and terrifyingly normal,” lacking “criminal motives,” “a buffoon,” “a typical functionary” who was “banal” rather than “demonic” because he was not “deep,” being essentially without “ideology.” A murderer’s warped idealism The assumption was that when Russians saw the economic costs of their country’s policies in Ukraine they would decide that their political leadership was a bunch of buffoons and demand change. Love Him or Hate Him, Vladimir Putin's Poll Numbers Have Never Been Higher 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Giving a consent power to the Senate would avoid that, he wrote, because it would discourage the president from nominating cronies or buffoons. Opinion: Partisan Blockage A story in The Telegraph was less extreme but no less cutting, referring to Bishop as "a camera-obsessed buffoon" whose petty insults "invite ridicule." From the looks of it, Ted Bishop's apology tour could get a little bumpy: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Once upon a quite recent time Nigel Farage had seemed a bit of a joke, a shyster buffoon who would soon implode. The press created Nigel Farage. Now they don’t know what to do with him 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z And the U.S. industry seems to be playing its allotted role to a T – as a condescending, complacent buffoon. Like 1950s Detroit, Boeing Is Underestimating Emerging Japanese Competition 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Are the people occupying space at the state capitol buffoons, cowards, hypocrites or a combination of all three? Roundup of Oklahoma editorials 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The little buffoon is laughing mightily and all his little yes men are jotting his gibberish down on their little pads. Kim Jong Un Still Missing; South Korea Plays Down Dictator’s Absence 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Harper was also a buffoon for showing up the home plate umpire in Game 2 and Hunter Strickland, the relief pitcher he homered off in Game 4. The Washington Nationals face a crisis of confidence after early postseason ouster When you return to the Commons, you will encounter muttered envy of your popularity, and hurtful suggestions that you are a buffoon, who can never be entrusted with high office. 'Your Hour May Be at Hand': Winston Churchill's Letter to Boris Johnson To his detractors, including members of his own party, he was often seen as a reckless buffoon. George V. Hansen, Idaho congressman sentenced to federal prison, dies at 83 Both positions are reasonable, and unfortunately, the difference between visionaries and buffoons can’t be determined until well after the fact. Tesla, Apple, And Why Focus Wins The Day 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z He certainly made it difficult for himself, apparently enjoying the persona of parliamentary buffoon while pursuing campaigns on serious questions. Colourful MP who compiled dossier 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The German kaiser was a warmonger and a buffoon but hardly in the same league as a German leader who was to come later in the century. The enigmatic war Nationals owner Ted Lerner doesn’t seem to see any harm in our Founding Fathers being caricatured as clumsy, giant buffoons who race around the ball park to keep patrons from being bored between innings. The Presidents’ Race is a race to the bottom In person, Perry is commanding and confident and hardly comes off as a YouTube buffoon. Rick Perry’s ‘Groundhog Day’ 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t think my dad’s a buffoon. Quite the opposite.” Do Father’s Day cards that portray dad as an incompetent boob reflect today’s fathers? From biblical times through the Renaissance, the blind were generally regarded either as pariahs or as amusingly clumsy buffoons. ‘For the Benefit of Those Who See’: The Life of the Blind 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z But, he knew he was a buffoon… When we got to our site, he said to me, “You’ve got the training to protect this site. I don’t. Protect this site.” 10 Things the Greatest Leaders All Have In Common 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z There was no Carlos Danger on last night’s debut–there are new buffoons to kick around now. REVIEW: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver 2014-04-28T13:19:02Z Leader schools GOP buffoon on his home court: “Let’s assume that people want a hand up and not a handout!” Leader schools GOP buffoon on his home court: “Let’s assume that people want a hand up and not a handout!” 2014-03-07T13:30:00Z Reflecting on this outburst of paranoia in Egypt, Ms. Carr, the Cairene journalist, observed sadly that “this grand civilization of 7,000 years is once again being held hostage by buffoons.” The Lede: Egyptian Puppet Called Terrorist Mouthpiece 2014-01-02T22:18:20Z It’s easy to write off Antioco as a buffoon and leave it at that. The New Age Of Disruption 2013-09-21T06:38:00Z The article in question called Mr. Palmer “a buffoon” and said he posed a threat to democracy. Australia’s Prime Minister, Facing Election, Drops in Poll 2013-09-05T20:18:19Z And obviously Johnson is an utter buffoon with an astonishing talent for making a fool of himself with an ill-judged remark or gesture. Leave Boris Alone 2013-07-09T13:34:00Z I sure wish someone would at least try to defend the CDC from the charges in BMJ that CDC vaccine policy officials are disease mongering, lying, incompetent, corrupt buffoons... Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science 2013-05-31T09:00:42Z Gunplay becomes an offensive option in Gunpoint, but one that only a buffoon would choose. Gunpoint – review 2013-06-03T13:30:09Z |
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