Co-dependent father and/or mother.
When did paid liar fall out of use?
Long Lost Vocabulary Meanings Dept., Item #1,034:
The astute reader pursuing issues of governance during the furst half of the 20th century may find him/herself puzzled by a long-in-desuetude use of publicist. In those halcyon days, when politicians, entertainment celebrities, and drugged-out monomaniacs constituted three distinct segments of the population with only minimal overlap, a publicist was not a euphemism for “PR flack”, but rather “writer in the public interest,” as distinguished from a partisan polemicist or a political gossip. Walter Lippmann is given as the classic example pf a publicist with the inevitability of an Eohippus-sized fox terrier.
The Al Gore of An Inconvenient Truth might be a good modern example of this antiquated usage of the term publicist, as might some non-partisan members of the blogosphere.