For a prime minister trying to rehabilitate his credibility with alienated voters, redemption is sought from a tongue lashing on TV.

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And Tony Blair would never have had that tongue-lashing you gave him!

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The old professional elites get a tongue-lashing.

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Russia's Ministry of Communications rated it the best political talk show in Russia in 2012, but the format was abruptly changed last summer after Mr. Kirby got an on-air tongue-lashing from a Kremlin critic for suggesting fascism needn't be outlawed.

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