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- noun One who habitually
bloviates ; apompous ,opinionated , typicallyvoluble commentator .
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Examples
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One example of a bloviator is my Congressman Tom Allen, the "good" Democrat from Portland, Maine.
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The controversial Fox News talk show host and self-described "bloviator" Bill O'Reilly has written another book, this one about his formative years and how they shaped the man he has become.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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November 25th, 2009 2: 23 pm ET lou dobbs has become a bloviator, gas bag, losing all credability. hopefully he will run for office and truly find out what the american people really think of him
Fueling speculation, Dobbs appears to soften on key issue 2009
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Nelson has every right to comment, and as a dyspeptic, rank bloviator has the obligation to receive the returning comments.
Oops Bill Nelson's Hypocrisy Is Showing Again - NASA Watch 2009
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Although Rush, lately, has become a rather titular bloviator due to crossing the line into outright falsehood.
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Dobbs comes across as a self-important, pompous, bloviator with extreme opinions delivered with absolute certainty.
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She has also become the go-to bloviator for every current infidelity plaguing our airwaves from Tiger Woods to Jesse James.
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But for the sake of time, just ask yourself: was Winston Churchill one of history's more effective leaders, or just a B-grade bloviator?
John Neffinger: Actually Jason, Obama Is Short on Drama 2010
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King's "USA" show debuted in March after the immigrant-bashing, right-wing bloviator Lou Dobbs mercifully left CNN, but King, flashed his conservative credentials with the pejorative Gore remark and revealed, perhaps unintentionally, that CNN (owned by Time Warner) must have reserved the 7: 00 p.m. time period for a wing-nut.
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In fact the bloviator and his beloved show a perfect consistency in the do-what-I say Fundamentalism now at the rotting core of what used to be the Conservative movement.
Prolagus commented on the word bloviator
Could the old racial politics still be determinative? I’ve long been skeptical of the incessant press prognostications (and liberal panic) that this election will be decided by racist white men in the Rust Belt. Now even the dimmest bloviators have figured out that Americans are riveted by the color green, not black — as in money, not energy. Voters are looking for a leader who might help rescue them, not a reckless gambler whose lurching responses to the economic meltdown (a campaign “suspension,�? a mortgage-buyout stunt that changes daily) are as unhinged as his wanderings around the debate stage.
(The New York Times, The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama, by Frank Rich, October 12, 2008)
October 13, 2008
ekerilaz commented on the word bloviator
one who talks at length in a boastful and pompous manner
bloviate
June 14, 2009
donnyboy commented on the word bloviator
Laura Holson noted in the NY Timesof March 10,2010:"Sometimes you hear a word for the first time and think :"Of course." How better to describe...the frequent tabloid target Alec Baldwin than as "the bloviator"?
March 9, 2010