The trial was a direct and strong response to reports that have been bashing China's political and legal systems.
And the souverainistes in France, who have been bashing away at transfers of sovereignty to the EU for many years, saw their vote slump.
But I recently saw a guy from university who said: "Naomie, you have been bashing Cambridge, saying it was awful and that you felt like an oddball.
And Mr. Badillo took indirect note of Democrats who had been critical of the Police Department, saying: "It's not time for people who have been bashing the uniformed services".
"For the past six months, Mrs. Clinton's surrogates have been bashing the mayor in the most pejorative terms -- that includes James Carville, who referred to the mayor's supporters as goons and thugs".
We've already written about the campaign mode, a woozy 10-hour trip through CIA conspiracies, mega explosions and the sort of "artificial intelligence gone mad" narrative that Hollywood studios have been bashing out for the past five years.
In the USA, The Daily Show and its homunculus, The Colbert Report, have been bashing the government for many years, while in Britain, TV Times owners with magnifying glasses were well aware of the existence of John Bird, John Fortune and Rory Bremner in their various incarnations.
"Every Friday [when they give sermons] they have been bashing the government for not delivering services, accusing them of corruption and for lacking principles and good governance," says Bakhtiar Amin, a human-rights minister in Iraq's first government after the American invasion of 2003.
