A product of the machine-driven world of Queens politics, he fiercely opposed federally mandated integration efforts as a young school board member from a mostly white district in the 1970s.
Are we as a society going to value the products of the mind the way we value products of the machine?
Even Bloomberg's better predecessors were, to some extent, products of the machine: Koch and Lindsey both came from Congress; Giuliani was a federal prosecutor, while Wagner came from one of New York's leading political dynasties.
While Taylor has finally revealed that she is a product of the pop machine, Kim has solidified her place as the pop machine itself.
He's called him a "very boring man", a "flip-flop merchant", a "product of the Blairite machine", an accomplice in Blair/Brown "crimes and blunders" and an "unprincipled speak-your-weight machine" who "went into what can only be described as a swoon over kissing the queen's hand".
"He is the product of the Nassau Republican machine.
His confident manner, which Mendes has described as a product of "the Oxbridge machine", was comforting.
The selection by party insiders of Mr. Frei, 67, whose father was also a president, has marked him as the staid product of the Concertación machine, analysts said.
His opponents -- State Senator John J. Marchi, the Republican; Representative Mario Biaggi, the Conservative, and Assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal, the Liberal -- labeled him a product of the Democratic machine, a tool of bosses like Meade H. Esposito, the Brooklyn leader, and a faceless vehicle for patronage.
Mr Navalny said that those messages were the product of the "Bad Machine of Propaganda".
It shows that Taylor is a product of the pop machine, worrying about her brand image and her press and her social media following.
