The media is a perverse and corrupt machine that will spout what the coin feeder says.

"I'm so deeply frightened by the nature of the corrupt left-wing machine in the House that it would have been worse to do nothing."

Both won office by taking on notoriously corrupt but well-entrenched Democratic machines.

San Diego (population 18,000 in 1900) had both the Southern Pacific and a corrupt machine.

They want to beat the corrupt machine of Tammany Hall.

The term may have a pejorative sense referring to corrupt political machines.

We are running against a corrupt machine that doesn't want to leave the big money they are making.

In the United States, these people wanted to change politics, which was at that time run by big business and corrupt political machines.

You can ask people to surrender their supposedly corrupt machines and appliances.

They see him as a career operative in a corrupt and broken political machine and doubt that he really would dismantle it.