Even lower down on the list, artists are getting paid considerable sums to shill products.
Tellingly, money managers who haven't the time or the need to shill themselves are seldom the performers.
Given my background, I am at times dismissed as a big pharma shill by those who have negative views of pharma.
Within days bloggers had posted "investigative" articles "exposing" her as corrupt and unethical, claiming she was a "shill"who took bribes from Microsoft.
But perhaps even cannier than hiring a shill to look like someone influential is employing a shill to sound like someone influential.
What seller wouldn't appreciate having a shill right there on the premises?
Shill for other companies, tell people to buy things and the like.
Once Obama was elected, Wexler continued to serve as his Jewish shill.
Joyner needs to fully embrace the role of corporate shill, since he is expanding privately held Reach Media, of which he owns 69%.
The bottom line: The NRF is an industry shill group that produces nonsensical spin that misleads investors, fools the public, and bamboozles incompetent journalists.
In downtown Brooklyn, NY, Dekalb Market this summer will band together a small village of shipping containers to shill fresh produce, food and coffee.
Is there any way for me not to sound like a corporate shill, yet convey to you how great Forbes colleague Dan Lyons' latest columns are?
And someone like Romney would never set foot in a place like Nashville unless it was just for a few hours to distastefully shill votes from local hicks.
Their radical and unpopular agenda has driven them to demonize industry, paint Michele Obama as a corporate shill, and to characterize food marketers as akin to child molesters.
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The tone and content of this article suggest several, non-exclusive possibilities: Pollack is biased against the technology, a shill for its antagonists or simply poorly informed about the subject.
Yet when, you might ask, did the press make the transition, now fully evident, from being fastidious about sourcing and newsworthiness to being a shill for innuendo and opportunism?
Everyone calling Paul a Fox shill are just name calling and missing the opportunity for a greater debate around our current laws and whether or not they are just.
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In today's celebrity-obsessed culture, why choose an animated creature to shill your brand when nearly every bold-faced star seems willing to lend their name and Hollywood good looks to products?
Worse yet, through his organization, the Middle East Policy Council, he has been a paid shill for Saudi Arabia - from whence millions of dollars have flowed to pay for Freeman's excuse-making for the Saudis.
I'm not a shill for Apple products.
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By emphasizing precaution, advocates can favor those studies that appear to show a hazard and appeal to the public, always relying on the argument that anyone who questions the interpretation of the evidence must be a shill of industry.
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That's because the three men who created Blue Man a trippy cabaret act that features three mute men in blue face paint backed by high-tech special effects and lots of toilet paper, food and other props did appear on Leno and they do shill (silently) for Intel.
And I must tell you, Bill, I've heard you shill for our actual and potential enemies for decades but that was really over the top to suggest that Americas firefighters and police officers really want to be investing their pension funds unwittingly in the companies that you represent that are doing business with our enemies?
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