Rodriguez was benched during last season's playoffs and has been ridiculed for repeatedly failing in October.
But many rural and working-class whites adore her, and resent the way she has been ridiculed.
Hillary Clinton has been ridiculed for wearing boxy pantsuits and scrunchies.
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So while he may have been ridiculed for his performance opposite an empty chair at the Republican National Convention, its seems to have helped make him an influencer.
Corn ethanol has long been ridiculed as a vote-getting farmer-subsidy program that does little or nothing to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign oil or cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
When we have thought about the role of other domains in conflict, we have not focused only on the physical and technological and those who have tried have often been ridiculed as a result.
Mr Karoubi has been ridiculed for proposing to spread oil revenues through cash handouts to the public, but he won only slightly fewer votes than Mr Ahmadinejad in 2005, and claims, credibly, that suspicious polling irregularities accounted for much of the difference.
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"They have been ridiculed for doing formulaic rock'n'roll, but one of the things that people forget is that they are giving a huge subset of fans out there exactly what they want, " says Ben Paynter, a contributing writer at Bloomberg Business Week, who recently profiled the band.
Mr. Klamer, the Dutch economist ridiculed in the 1990s for his euro-skeptic views, in recent days has been featured prominently in Dutch media.
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