But it also tends to ridicule the losing side and, in some people's view, can cause ill will.
It doesn't matter what the media does to ridicule him or misinterpret him or defeat him.
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It is not the job of serious publications to ridicule the religious sentiments held sacred by many.
The biggest selling point for Alabama, however, is its people - those "rednecks" you like to ridicule.
Again, it's the style of writing that can tend to ridicule--it reminds me very much of Justice Scalia's writing style.
But so far, Obama's equivocations are exposing America's self-proclaimed place as "leader of the free world" to ridicule.
The government sought to ridicule her protest by sending a beach umbrella, plastic table and garden chairs to the scene.
IR You seek to ridicule my reference to the claimed presence of 17, 000 Cubans at the time of the military coup in Chile.
No one thought it should be kept a secret, but we were careful not to ridicule the event or turn it into a joke.
But it seems a mite harsh to ridicule a Japanese hotel in Holland for failing to produce a definitive version of this American offering.
Some wonder if going public with the faces and personal histories will open prospective parents to fraud and prospective adoptees to ridicule or worse.
Jason Giambi tried one a few years back, mostly to ridicule.
And some have latched onto one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad to ridicule the camel-hump girls as yet another manifestation of loose modern morals.
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But if he hopes to ridicule his new opponent's ideas for tax reform and portray him as a rigid Christian conservative, he may come off second-best.
Some papers show outrage at the threats against Mr Lerner's life, others accuse the 'caviares' - a term used to ridicule middle-class liberals - of fishing for public sympathy.
Several months ago when I wrote Apple is so 2010, the Apple fan boys came out of the woodwork to ridicule the very idea that I could be right.
Democrats trooped to the floor to ridicule the Speaker Newt Gingrich for allowing his personal anger over a perceived snub by President Clinton to influence his attitude during budget negotiations.
This has allowed the exchange to ridicule Macquarie's opener.
An impossible standard meant to ridicule traditional culture.
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" Those are the words Mr. Obama used in January 2012 to ridicule Commerce, adding in the White House East Room that the department was "a mess" and that "these kinds of inefficiencies exist across government.
To many of the defeated lobbyists, the latest vote on women bishops leaves the Church open to ridicule, as they claim it puts the Church at odds with wider society in terms of equal opportunities for women.
This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear.
Even after earnest effort, adults could still get lost among the wands and swords, the lockets, diadems, rings, and whatnot, but the endless, flowing talk of curses, potions, prophecies, and destinies was gibberish so confident and good-humored that it was impossible to ridicule.
We should be thankful that, whatever the reasons, there are a few people with the courage to risk ridicule, at a minimum, and possibly ruin, to bring new and often better ideas to the masses.
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Ultimately to great ridicule Kennedy was against it, but it says here he was correct.
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As the symbol of a dynasty hated by many Franco supporters, he was routinely exposed to media ridicule.
They sent an unprecedented list of questions back to the judge, leading to their ridicule in the national media.
Never before have the past actions of a generation been so open to public ridicule as they were with the youth of the last generation.
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To endure ridicule and harassment and brave violence and jail.
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