The Mirror branded the audition process a stitch-up and the Daily Mail was equally sceptical.
But it is hard for them also to claim that the Jenkins report is a Lab-Lib stitch-up.
And the prime minister has one huge point against him: he owes his position to an army-backed stitch-up.
Mr Zelaya has declined to co-operate with the commission, labelling it a stitch-up.
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These, they say, look like a Franco-German stitch-up which other EU members will be cajoled into going along with.
The shameless admission of the stitch-up, however, should have been a humiliating slap in the face for any self-respecting audience.
Yet the real fear is that today's furious price-cutting is not so much real liberalisation as the start of a stitch-up.
The fact that his son recently bumped into Lord Mandelson, Britain's powerful first secretary, on holiday in Corfu, has fuelled speculation about a stitch-up.
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But Conservative leader David Cameron warned against "an establishment stitch-up", while the Lib Dems have threatened to boycott the inquiry if it is held in private.
At the heart of the fix-as-stitch-up is a persistent unwillingness to face the power of this law, and a desire to enforce a political rhetoric that ignores it.
He warned about any review on civil partnerships being "kicked into the long grass", adding that Parliament "was in danger of being party to a last minute stitch-up between the frontbenches".
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And Conservative MP Peter Bone, who sits on the panel, decried the move as "a stitch-up", claiming it was an attempt by the executive "to ignore Parliament and impose its will on the House".
There is fix-as-dilemma, fix-as-stitch-up and fix-as-solution.
But the French can't sell much, you say, they signed the Washington Accord, that smart little stitch-up late last year when the World Gold Council persuaded the US Administration that American gold miners would sink if the European central banks flogged off gold left right and centre.
The two Republican senators from Alabama, where EADS was planning to establish an assembly line to build the KC-45 and a freighter version of the A330, were quick to condemn what they regard as a political stitch-up that put jobs in traditionally Democratic Washington state (Boeing's home) before employment in their region.
With Sicko, Moore starts out telling the stories of a few people without health insurance, who can't afford to reattach cut-off fingers or who stitch up their own wounds.
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