manipulated

I want to say poor organizing but it seems to me the process was manipulated from the very beginning.

Baucus floats compromise on health care 2009

The point being, any system which allows minor changes to cascade over the entire system, and which allows itself to serve as a symbol within the system, thus changing the entire thing whenever manipulated, is likely to utterly defy prediction of any kind.

Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh 2010

Generally, the idea that the Red-State Democrats and Blue Dogs are simplistic, purely procedural, and therefore easily manipulated is a convenient assumption for certain arguments.

Matthew Yglesias » How Many Votes to Change the Senate’s Rules 2010

That the American public can be so easily manipulated is sad testimony to our characters.

Democrats accuse GOP of inciting mobs 2009

The body, like gardens, is still a terrain manipulated by the demands of style, fashion and pretense.

Michael Jackson as Landscape Architecture 2008

An AP article on the forthcoming "revelations" also quotes Lawrence Wilkerson as comparing Bush's foreign affairs expertise to that of Sarah Palin, implying he was manipulated from the outset by Cheney.

They Lie, Oh They Lie 2008

An AP article on the forthcoming "revelations" also quotes Lawrence Wilkerson as comparing Bush's foreign affairs expertise to that of Sarah Palin, implying he was manipulated from the outset by Cheney.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

I sure hope that someone in Congress creates a special committee to investigate the full extent of this and bar any of the defense contractors from being involved in any government business, not to mention paying back all of the money that they manipulated from the system.

11/29/2005 2005

Polls only show a mere tendency - So, don't anybody tell me that the voting on this site CANNOT be "manipulated" -- because it CAN be done -- ex. if one ticks "hate it"

esctoday.com | news 2009

But solar power is always discussed, I guess because of the energy crisis that we always seem to be in--aka manipulated prices at the pump--and the real cost spikes of oil.

Mike Ragogna: Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground : Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright Mike Ragogna 2010