Such candidates are destined to wander the land with little money, yearning for attention and respect while suffering ire and mockery and bad hotels.
A Sunday at the Pool has been criticised for its political inaccuracies, bad history and slight mockery of General Romo Dallaire, courageous commander of the UN assistance mission in Rwanda.
Because, in theory, this sign is brilliant: a catchphrase often chanted throughout the night, the perfect combination of Trump condemnation (wall = bad) and ego-puncturing mockery (hands = minuscule).
The general tone was snide and dismissive, as though Franzen had done or said something dumb, bad, and deserving of mockery.
It was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, its belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness.
At the moment the pendulum has swung from sweetness to savage mockery: in theaters "Bad Santa," is the hot holiday film, and even new movies aimed at children, like "Elf" and "The Cat in the Hat," have a knowing, sardonic edge to their comedy.
Bad politics have made a mockery of the American political process, and sometimes the only way to stomach the news these days is when it's served by Stephen Colbert.
The Charlie Hebdo survivors pulled off something strange and courageous in yesterday's post-massacre edition – a millefeuille of mockery and defiance; mourning and bad taste.
He told Guardian Australia afterwards that "anything that is a mockery or a joke, or with bad intention, is wrong".
Some sections of the media, have taken it upon themselves... to project images that cast parliament in bad light or to attempt to ridicule or make a mockery of the deliberations by showing unflattering shots/scenes.
