Word: baloneyed
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...sense that your purpose is to serve your client," says Meese, a former prosecutor. "My service to Ronald Reagan is to see that he gets objective advice and to filter out my own personal viewpoint. But the idea that I don't have any particular philosophical viewpoints is baloney...
...basketball team, but it's a terrible name for a senator." In Idaho, one television commercial shows an empty missile silo. The announcer tells the viewer that our weakened military is a direct manifestation of the votes cast by Frank Church in the Senate. Indiana commercials, later called "baloney ads," picture slices of baloney with multimillion dollar price tags on them, equalling the dollar count on deficit spending approved by Birch Bayh. The narrator says, "One very big slice of baloney is Birch Bayh telling us he's fighting inflation...
...whining refrain, "Where have all the liberals gone," is baloney. They have gone to the White House, to the Khyber Pass, to vote against school integration in Congress, to the Pentagon. It was Carter's bellicose administration that paved the way for Reagan. Under Carter's aphorism of privilege "life is unfair," working people, Blacks and the poor faced grinding inflation and unemployment while the government pushed for war with the Soviet Union, making the U.S. political climate "safe," indeed welcome for Ronald Reagan...
...Continued Ford: "You've all heard Carter's alibis: inflation cannot be controlled. The world has changed. We can no longer protect our diplomats in foreign capitals, nor our workingmen on Detroit's assembly lines. We must lower our expectations. We must be realistic. We must prudently retreat. Baloney...
...same way the rest of the candidates do. Film clips, with a lot of vague, fine-sounding baloney about making our country great again. We'd use a ghost writer, the way the others do, but our man would be a real ghost...