The Times of London said he had let the public down: "He has made a mockery of the voting rules, which grant audiences, not the experts, the right to choose who progresses.
Wu said it looks like Mulvaney would rather grant audiences to handpicked supplicants rather than people with broad experience in consumer protection.
Collaborating with hitmakers like Ben Abraham and Jennifer Decilveo in London and Los Angeles, Platt began crafting songs he hoped would grant audiences a tiny peek into his psyche.
They are holding hands (a miracle worthy of the Vatican) and touching shoulders; the First Lady, after the custom of a woman granted audience with the Pope, is dressed in all black and shrouded under an intricate veil.
Those that fought against the Shogun were seen in the outer chambers, whilst those who were allies in the conflict were granted audience in the inner chambers.
Mr. Chamberlain has never much liked granting audiences to people with notebooks or tape recorders.
Gone, too, is the man who basked in his new celebrity, granting audiences in chambers to visitors like Larry King, Geraldo Rivera and Barbara Walters.
Granted, audiences may be holding on to their cash until they see the return of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (rumored to begin on New Year's Eve).
Around the subterranean dressing room where the general overseer was granting audiences, a phalanx of suited ministers and bodyguards were furiously tapping on their BlackBerrys.
It turns out to be a couple of questions squeezed into the end of a busy morning spent granting audiences to devotees, and draping khataks, white silken scarves, round their necks.
