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From time to time, he fertilizes the crowd Don Rickles-style, abusing one questioner as "ugly" and mocking another for his "expensive sweater" (sure enough, the guy asks him about cutting the capital gains rate).
But so far, conservatives have been silent, perhaps because Klayman has proved remarkably effective at abusing the people most right-wingers dislike.
She publicly accused her parents of abusing her and her sister (they denied it).
Their mothers, who surrounded the field, terrified our mothers by abusing the referees in thick Slavic accents.
The editors at Newsweek would be no different from his faint-hearted Clinton-loving editors at the Post . No one, in those days, wanted to publish what they all knew--that Clinton had a long history of abusing women and threatening people to cover it up.