Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin responded to the controversy by calling them "corrupt bastards".

We would have gone through the ministries and shot every corrupt bastard that we could lay hands on.

The police are not guardians of the peace, she said, but corrupt, "beautiful bastards" who extort money or pocket the hashish they seize from neighborhood hoodlums.

It would be the corrupt bastards in Punta Arenas, not he, who would suffer.

United Russia for all their corruption and arrogance are at least centre-right corrupt and arrogant bastards.

According to Chenault, one of the lawmakers named in the article: "Somebody walked up [in the bar] and said, 'You corrupt bastards,' and that name stuck."

On the other hand, I suppose You could send whoever You wanted to to teach those corrupt bastards in the Temple the error of their ways.

Time to shine your light onto these particular corrupt, devious, greedy bastards.

Just look at the High Council of Admirals, for God's sake; four hundred years ago, none of those corrupt bastards would have been put in charge of anything.