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• n  someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
• v  yield (to); give satisfaction to
• v  arrange for sexual partners for others

• While I still believe that McCain's "surge" pandering needs some work, apparently he's practicing: McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v.
• Yet Fox News, which many liberals decry as a conservative political pander by Murdoch, is actually best understood as a product designed to fill an untapped market niche in video .
• Then a suddenly bellicose Tsongas attacked Clinton personally as a "cynical and unprincipled politician," a "pander bear" eager to promise everything to everyone.

• pimp
• procurer
• panderer
• pandar
• fancy man
• ponce
• gratify
• indulge
• procure

News & Articles

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• Welcome to Dodge City
  The Democratic race for mayor this year has been little more than a contest to see who can pander the most, even if it means holding baldly contradictory positions. In that department, Chris Quinn made impressive headway this week. Alas, it was on an issue vital to the city: public...
  June 21, 2013 - New York Post
• Foes hit Quinn’s rush for ‘anti-profile’ vote on stop-frisk bill - 'Political thinking is behind it'
  Christine Quinn is rushing to pass the anti-racial-profiling bill before the Sept. 10 democratic mayoral primary to pander to liberal and minority voters, Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. charged yesterday. “The [council] speaker is adding meetings next week for the sole purpose of passing the bill. Political thinking is...
  June 20, 2013 - New York Post
• Japan Won’t Pander to Markets in Abenomics Policies, Amari Says
  “While market movements are important in themselves, the government isn’t making policy to pander to markets and should have confidence that markets will follow its policies,” Amari, 63, said today in an interview at his office in Tokyo.
  June 18, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Jon Kyl in Guardian Unlimited
  If Democrats use the defense authorization bill to pander to the far left at the expense of our national security, they should expect serious opposition from Republicans,said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
• Danny Kennedy in FOXNews
  Ulster Unionist Party lawmaker Danny Kennedy said the British government was "trying to pander to elements that will never be satisfied."
• Harrison Ford in AFP
  There is no series of films that I have done that have the same spirit and are so, if you will, shamelessly made for the audience -- not to pander to them, but to give them an exciting ride,Ford told reporters.