guttersnipe

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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.”

From Washington Times

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

But part of the Bush legacy is also how his guttersnipe 1988 campaign helped hasten the downward slide of American politics.

From The Guardian

But never, since the worst days of Joseph McCarthy, has anyone in a prominent public position matched Trump in his flagrant, continual use of guttersnipe rhetoric.

From The Guardian