Word: blathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enrolled here. Most noxious of all was Mansfield's offhand insinuation that blacks might have genetic intellectual deficiencies. Like most of Mansfield's statements about race, his recent essay was so ridiculous that it reeked of racism. The staff should have pointed out that Mansfield's ignorance and bigoted blather caused this latest controversy in the first place...
...conversation with his colleagues, his specialty being what my daughters used to call the harsh snap. Around the time of the Iowa caucuses, I don't think I was the only consumer of campaign coverage who longed for the capacity to trade a few hundred hours of pundit blather for 30 seconds of what Bob Dole was saying about Steve Forbes in private...
Take Forbes' make-believe on the deficit. Forbes' tax cuts would blow an estimated $140 billion hole in the budget; the spending cuts that he says would offset the cuts are vague blather. He wouldn't cut defense. He says he would 'wipe out' corporate welfare but offers no specifics, saying between campaign stops only that 'a lot can be done with agriculture subsidies." Forbes says he'll "strip" the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development of "all but essential functions." Sounds tough. But it's a knock-off of the G.O.P.'s box-shuffling plan...
...radio news stations, with their hours of analysis and discussion that eventually, unfortunately, faded into blather. And the hubbub hadn't died by morning, when the New York Times ran 10 separate stories on the verdict and the Boston Globe devoted an entire pullout section to it, or by yesterday, when the jurors' explanations dominated front pages across the country...
...Americans are uninformed about politics despite the endless blather, it may be because they have better things about which to worry. Many of us believe that life is not lived best by paying close attention to the events in Washington, but by paying close attention to our families, friends and neighbors. We live on a human scale and refuse to let the television fool us into thinking that this scale has become global. We cannot know or care about very many more people than our grandfathers knew or cared about. We act locally and think locally, because we live locally...