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When I called you the conscience of the American cinema, I was being neither ironic nor, I hope, patronizing.
In defending this scenario, Bennett, Hatch, and others have already used the same argument conservatives denounce as elitist and patronizing in the case of the affirmative-action initiative: that disingenuous wording misled voters about the measure's real effect.
Four days before the election, with one poll showing the candidates in a virtual tie, Mulholland got the story out by shouting questions at the Republican during a campaign stop--accusing him of also patronizing a Sunset Boulevard strip club.
) Even nonconservatives praise Watts in somewhat patronizing tones.
The other half of Washington finds the idea of Wise-Men-to-the-rescue pompous, patronizing, and undemocratic.