I'm not about to turn it into some dog-and-pony show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Ventura's 'Body' Politics] Reference

Of course, Obama is going to have a dog-and-pony show.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

He'd see things as they were, not a dog-and-pony show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born To Run]

"I'm going to the dog-and-pony show tomorrow," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Times Force <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Editor Terry McDonell to Watch the Super Bowl From New York] Reference

"" I'm not about to turn it into some dog-and-pony show. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Ventura's 'Body' Politics] Reference

Everyone loathed these ‘dog-and-pony’ shows on my ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McCain Breaks Bread with some Generals, Now He Speaks for the Troops] Reference

Delano says: santorum is a huge dog-and-pony show huckster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Santorum: We Found the WMD] Reference

All of that is just the dog-and-pony show for the 6: 00 news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Call Your Senators] Reference

My guess: all "negotiations" are, in fact, a dog-and-pony show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfson: Even If Florida And Michigan Aren't Seated, An Obama Victory Would Be Legit] Reference

There is always an audience for well-trained dog-and-pony shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four More Years: The Obamavore's Dilemma] Reference

"It's not the old dog-and-pony show," Mr. Keenan said of Puscifer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rocker Makes Wine] Reference

I want to know how much his Baghdad dog-and-pony show cost taxpayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Raises A Disappointing $12.5 Million] Reference

WILLIAMS: This is a dog-and-pony show that they're doing right now, OK?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006] Reference

We've already seen it in the dog-and-pony shows that pass for "debate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul] Reference

Why would they have put on the whole dog-and-pony show in the first place?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Bargain]

Step 9: Put on an elaborate dog-and-pony show about their famine relief efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia's "Silently" Creeping Famine] Reference

But then this week's credit-card dog-and-pony show isn't about helping consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Credit Cards] Reference

He'd seen enough dog-and-pony shows to make P.T. Baroum contemplate selling insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Many Bosses]

GEORGE: It's a dog-and-pony show that they've got over there with the bringing in the cots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2002] Reference

This relegates the debates to nothing more than dog-and-pony shows or ugly pissing matches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: If You Boycotted the Debate, Didn't Watch, Or Didn't Care About What Any Candidate Was Going to Say...] Reference

The remainder of Gates's dog-and-pony show showcased existing and new Microsoft technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CES 2008: Bill Gates's Last Days at Work] Reference

At worst, it has been a dog-and-pony show for the public that makes a mockery of the Mitchell Report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Ross: Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig Should Resign After Making Mockery of MLB Anti-Doping] Reference

Then I saw his dog-and-pony act onstage with HRC last month and now I don't know what to make of Strickland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Clinton: Hillary-Obama Ticket Would Be "Almost Unstoppable Force"] Reference

What they wanted to do was put on a big dog-and-pony show to help Georgie get re-elected and that's about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The trustees will proudly attend the administrative dog-and-pony shows, the most efficient act on any campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Sadness of Higher Education] Reference

They'll do the same dog-and-pony show 16 times this summer, from Boston and New York to Los Angeles and Denver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Business of Ken Burns - America's Storyteller] Reference

The trustees will proudly attend the administrative dog-and-pony shows, the most efficient act on any campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable & Quotable] Reference

They co-starred in a dog-and-pony show where they talked tough but said nothing -- and unveiled a website to nowhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luis Heredia: Brewer Going Rogue in Arizona? You Betcha] Reference

As jaded as we can be about those dog-and-pony shows, it would be fantastic to hear/see her perform to that wide audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [sapphire and faded jeans] Reference

All those years of Trudeaumania and this is what we have to show for it: a hand mixer doing the old dog-and-pony show on TVA.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference

As it turned out, I wasn't in trouble; the bikers were all regulars and we did this little dog-and-pony show every now and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

I want you to think back to July Fourth when North Korea did that big dog-and-pony show by firing off some missiles, you remember?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2006] Reference

It was the largest collection of artefacts ever to leave Egypt - made the King Tut dog-and-pony back in the 80's (70's?) look puny.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

In what is essentially a four - hour dog-and-pony show, why waste time with stuff you could do on the Internet about filling out forms?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008] Reference

But their years of study of the Middle East surely meant they wouldn't be taken in by a Department of Defense dog-and-pony show, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Rieckhoff: The 82nd Airborne vs. the Brookings Institution: Who Do You Trust for a Real View of Iraq?] Reference

Retired fed analyst Richard Cook analyzes the upcoming 2008 'elections,' discussing the real players behind the dog-and-pony candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Crisis in the U.S.: "Plan B"?] Reference