Word: baloneyed
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QUOTE OF NOTE: [On his opponent's "No Newt" picnic] "No matter how much ketchup and mustard you put on [a hot dog], it's still baloney in a tube...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My view is, while we need nutritious lunches in our schools, we need a whole lot less baloney in Washington...
...inmates in the county jail, he might better be thought of as the headmaster of his own school of hard knocks. Since he came to the job early in 1993, Arpaio has organized his prisoners into chain gangs, housed them in tents in the scorching desert and made baloney a staple of their diet. Skin magazines and all broadcast TV stations have been banned. ("Too much violence,'' he says.) For free-time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns of Newt Gingrich's 10-part course on revitalizing American civilization. "I want to make this place so unpleasant...
...Bennett's direct-as-a-bullet charges ("Are you folks morally disabled?") were met by philosophizing and historical perspective ("Elvis was more controversial in his day than some rap lyrics are today") that Bennett took to be patronizing. When Bennett responded to one of Levin's comments by exclaiming, "Baloney!" Levin stalked out of the room...
...Fermata by Nicholson Baker (Random House). The author, whose specialty is upwardly pretentious soft porn, is puffed as a writer of something like satire, with something like a point of view. Baloney, as proved by this latest aid to heavy breathing: the smarmy tale of a fellow who learns how to stop the universe momentarily and uses the trick to undress women, then masturbate...