In this atmosphere, deviations from a narrow party line are punished more severely than blatant stupidity, and fresh ideas are dismissed or ignored because they don't fit a neat ideological narrative.
Our case has always been about Samsung's blatant copying of our ideas, and that was never in dispute.
And as a nation, we have suddenly had ideas of blatant racism, religious discrimination, gender-specific inequity and intolerance, and outright body shaming shoved down our throats.
Our case has always been about Samsung's blatant copying of our ideas, and that was never in dispute," Apple spokeswoman Rachel Wolf Tulley said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
When I saw Pier 55 I realised it was an even more blatant example of the same idea".
And Michigan has even devised a plan that would, by exempting certain white, rural counties with high unemployment rates, impose work requirements for Medicaid mainly on black people in cities. Rationing government assistance – whether or not it involves blatant racism – rests on the idea that only "deserving" should receive aid.
The Kirkland North guys are obviously irate over what they see as a blatant rip-off of their idea.
Of the many false arguments deployed by the Bush Administration to justify war with Iraq, perhaps the most blatant was the completely untrue idea that Iraq was linked to 9/11.
"There is just something extremely vulgar about the idea of a blatant campaign advertisement like this," said Barry Levinson, the Academy Award-winning director of "Rain Man". "You look at an ad like that and say, 'My God.' Why don't we just give money to people and tell them how to vote?" Miramax said Thursday that it had pulled the ad, which it said was published six times.
The former colony's Beijing-backed government has claimed such ideas are a blatant violation of the territory's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which describes Hong Kong as an "inalienable part" of the People's Republic of China.
