guttersnipe

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“What are we going to do,” the queen despaired, “about my sister’s guttersnipe life?”

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Mr. Paul added, “People need to wake up and not be so, sort of overwhelmed by celebrity that they take out-and-out falsehoods and ad hominem attacks from — really a guttersnipe like Jon Stewart.”

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Paul responded on the same network Thursday evening, calling Stewart a “guttersnipe” and blasting the legislation as a “completely irresponsible” measure that has received support only because senators are “overwhelmed” by the comedian’s celebrity.

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It’s Jekyll and Hyde time as he careens from his stately self behind the rostrum to the aging guttersnipe allegedly selling his influence to all and sundry.

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Like Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady,” Cleveland was a guttersnipe, one of the league’s most raggedy franchises for nearly a quarter-century before John Dorsey showed up as Professor Henry Higgins.

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