dog and pony show

Rayner called it a “dog and pony show,” noting officials showed them clean linens, box meals and orange jumpsuits, while refusing any contact with detainees or the ability to verify allegations of flooding and infrequent meals.

Most of the mainstream media ignored this, having recognized that Bondi is putting on a dog and pony show for the QAnon crowd, which believes in an international conspiracy of Democrats and Hollywood celebrities to molest and kill children, before consuming them in Satanic cannibalism rituals.

I remember Bob Iger said to me — he asked me to go to some meeting at ABC; this dog and pony show — and he says, “George, how do we sell Hondas to Latinos?”

Bazawule is not particularly interested in the “dog and pony show” of awards season.

The power of money in politics has wholly eclipsed the power of the electorate, even without the help of the tragi-comic dog and pony show we call the Electoral College.