tar and feather

Other online memes likened IRS employees to Nazi SS officers and suggested taxpayers should stage a “tea party” and tar and feather tax collectors.

Cuomo’s lawyers argued that “CNN’s calculated efforts to tar and feather him” left him “untouchable in the world of broadcast journalism” and denied him millions in future earnings.

“Black Lives Matter Street, we’re gonna take it back. All that paint’s coming off that street. Before I get put in my grave, it’s going to get tar and feathered, and then we’re going to tar and feather all our delegates,” the man said.

They wrote that the $125 million he is seeking represents not just $15 million remaining from his CNN contract but also future “decades of earnings” that they argue he has been deprived of because “CNN’s calculated efforts to tar and feather him” left him “untouchable in the world of broadcast journalism.”

“And if any … Democrat had come in there with those credentials that he recited and those accomplishments, the person’s nomination would go flying through. … I’m not going to tar and feather him because his boss was an anti-climate change individual.”