Second, led by Yediot, the media prefer to portray Barak's buffoonery as courageous statecraft than acknowledge the massive cost of his failure.

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View To A Kill in 1985 marked Moore's departure and despite his popularity left many feeling that Bond's buffoonery had got out of hand.

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