Until now, though, allegations that he lacked journalistic objectivity had been mostly circumstantial — a badgering interview, a series of off-subject questions in a debate.
Ms. Blodgett's walls are covered with hundreds of letters and photos of appreciative fans, adoring customers, friends and followers — probably to keep memories of a badgering mom at bay. "Until I was 39, I was driven to please her," Ms. Blodgett said.
Apparently incensed by a report in The Daily Beast that the show was a vanity project driven by his infatuation with the nubile, if not obviously talented, group members, Mr. Redstone, chairman of the MTV parent, Viacom Inc., took the irrevocable step of leaving the Daily Beast reporter a badgering voice-mail message demanding that he give up his source.
In "The Sewing Machine Girl," a sendup of sweatshops, Ms. Coca, with Mr. Reiner as a badgering, leering boss, worked faster and faster, drooping lower and lower, until at last she gave up, did a whirling dervish dance of consumption, collapsed in death throes and, sprouting wings, flew up to heaven on wires.
The other white and Asian peers in that lecture room did not get such a badgering of questions because I guess it was implied that they already belonged there.
If he actually says such things to you in a badgering, persistent manner, then it is not love, but an attempt to control you.
Suzuki A, Badger BL, Haase J, Ohashi T, Erickson HP, Salmon ED, Bloom K. (2016).
A badger in broad daylight?
But I wanted to be a badger!
Mr. Fagan suspected a badger game.
I actually pretend to be a badger.
