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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* All the politicians in [[Blue Bloods]] give off a vaguely uncomfortable scent and are shown doing things like [[Nepotism]], overpandering, or simply haggling over things that shouldn't be haggled. But they usually also have more-or-less of an intention to do right by the public (however they interpret doing right), and if they like power, well everybody gets paid for their job.
* Pawnee City Councilman Bill Dexhart of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' fits this to a T, complete with sex scandals, religious and social hypocrisy, and incredibly obvious sleaze, to which everyone is completely oblivious because he's so good looking (and because nobody cares about local politics).
* More or less averted (!) in ''[[Yes Minister]]'': Even at his pandering lowest, Jim Hacker still understands right and wrong and has a sense of duty to his constituents and the British people. He's more pathetic than despicable in his (often half-baked) attempts to win popularity. As his wife put it, he's a "[[wikipedia:Whisky priest|whisky priest]]" who recognizes that what he's doing is wrong and still feels bad about it.
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