But rarely does a national news organization give them an unverified megaphone to whitewash it.
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And the latter approach is no less bigoted than the hatred it serves to whitewash.
It's bright enough to illuminate group portrait shots and yet subtle enough not to whitewash a subject that's placed immediately in front of the camera lens.
Tom Sawyer famously hornswoggled a neighborhood of kids to whitewash his aunt's fence by noisily enjoying the task before ever so reluctantly passing them a brush.
Mark had never bothered to whitewash the existence of Tom, nor had he really said much about the greatness of the public sphere that he could leverage for his own business.
The classical Olympics were always run by a board of nine from the local town (Elis), so there were no international spats, no corruption scandals, no hijacking of the games to whitewash dictators.
Thirty years ago, if you were a shop owner, you spent a large chunk of your time poring over inventory, keeping your books, clinking away at your calculator, double checking your numbers, and going through enough correction fluid to whitewash a fence.
Nonetheless, the hosts' push for a bonus point never really came and it was Edinburgh who got closest to the whitewash late on when replacement Ben Meyer almost sniped over.
But after helping Wales to a Six Nations whitewash, Edwards ruled out returning to the England fold.
The Lions won the first game by seven wickets and will aim to complete a whitewash in the final game on Tuesday.
Wakefield had a fleeting opportunity to cross the whitewash in the 10th minute when Ryan Atkins found Petersen and he was tackled into touch by Hodgson.
Shortly before the break, a James penalty gave Bath their first points but Saracens responded with vigour as winger Strettle broke free to cross the whitewash in the right-hand corner.
New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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Cooley, one of the masterminds behind England's 2005 Ashes success, defected to his native Australia to help Ricky Ponting's men to the 2006-07 whitewash.
The Christchurch-born right-hander was instrumental in propelling New Zealand to a 3-0 whitewash over Australia earlier this year, clubbing a superb 117 in the final game.
Ponting, who has lost two Ashes series in England but led his team to a 5-0 whitewash four years ago, said he did not think the approach of the big series was behind the poor run of form.
Pietersen's side were denied the chance to secure a 5-0 whitewash after rain wiped out the final match on Wednesday.
Despite the disappointment of missing out on a series whitewash, and dropping to third in the one-day rankings as a consequence, Australia will travel to South Africa for the Champions Trophy confident of repeating their 2006 victory.
The hosts laid siege to the Leinster line only for Easter and Will Skinner to both suffer a dose of whitewash fever, while just before the hour Care pounced on a turnover and chipped ahead, only for Luke Fitzgerald to race back to the rescue for the Irish.
But she does not expect to see a repeat of the Australian whitewash in England four years ago.
When a police supervisor was unsatisfied with his detective's first attempt at a whitewash, he rewrote it to make it smoother.
But Wigan started to take control, Leuluai showing some quick thinking from a quick play-the-ball to just get the ball on the whitewash.
PwC, who seem to be getting a lot of investigation whitewash jobs lately, was almost kicked out of Japan a few years ago for their own involvement in a major fraud.
It was in England interests to play on, as a 5-0 whitewash in the series will take them above South Africa into second in the world rankings.
The decider was a formality as Federer, who had never dropped a set previously to Verdasco, broke him twice and threatened a whitewash until the world number seven held in the sixth game.
We don't want to get ahead of ourselves but a 4-0 whitewash is certainly on the cards and 7-0 for the summer Tests if you take into account New Zealand.
Most say that the parliamentary report is a whitewash, but Turks were not altogether surprised to learn that convicted criminals such as Catli, a fugitive since 1978, had been used by the state.
Clearly the onus is now on Pakistan to arrest England's march towards a 4-0 whitewash.
And Ilhan went on to take the third set in style with a 7-0 whitewash in the tie-break.
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