Brisbane agrees with me that the ban on acting like a flack or giving flacks advice applies here.

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Rather than debate the virtues of the proposed legislation, the legal fraternity and its media flacks castigated it in just those terms.

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While the company's flacks would scold them if they were caught dishing to the press, the employees also live in something of a bubble.

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Naturally, I would quickly hire a bunch of lawyers and flacks in Washington to get a bill passed banning the use of gardening gloves while at bat.

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Obama and his media flacks would have us believe that by speaking of American values and by distinguishing friend from foe, former president George W. Bush raised the hackles of the world against America.

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But what has amazed me more than anything are the flacks who continue to pitch me by simply sending releases through e-mail, with no explanation and again, more often than not, the news is not news at all.

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Were they hacks or flacks?

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