Word: blusterer
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Limbaugh answered the challenges with his usual mix of bluff and bluster. He refused to apologize for the McNabb jab, saying he was only attacking the liberal media, and added that he was unfairly singled out: "Sean Hannity [a right-wing spieler] could have said it, and ... it wouldn't have even gotten noticed." True enough: racial slurs and racist humor are common in the frat-house atmosphere of talk radio, whether the format is politics (Michael Savage, Bob Grant) or comedy and news (Howard Stern, Don Imus). But a Sunday morning TV sports show--on a cable network that...
...words of one White House aide, "We're more than happy to have the [2004 presidential] election become a debate on whether or not it was the right decision to go to war in Iraq," but an endless drip of American casualties might knock the edge off that bluster. And such an outcome is possible. "This is asymmetric warfare all the way, and in asymmetric you can't win," says a U.S. official closely involved in Iraq policy. "There isn't a military solution, and I'm not alone in saying that...
...nuclear weapons-development program?the North's authoritarian leadership received the clearest message yet of how isolated it has become. Moreover, U.S. officials hope the North's latest displays of intractability will finally convince its only friends, Russia and China, to express their impatience with the regime's bluster and brinkmanship...
Despite the President's bluster, Bush Administration officials are privately worried that U.S. forces are caught in a dangerous loop. The persistence of attacks has forced the U.S. to remain on a combat footing, which has diverted attention and resources away from the reconstruction effort. The heavy military footprint, in turn, has soured Iraqi opinion and created a more hospitable climate for anti-American agitators. "Going out on raids, busting up things and shooting people tend not to win you many friends," says a top foreign-policy aide to the first President Bush and adviser to the current White House...
...DIPLOMACY At least for now, Washington says it is resolved to talking Kim down from the ledge, using the promise of economic assistance backed up with the threat of force. In the best-case scenario, Kim will try to bluster his way through any negotiations, making outrageous demands until he is finally offered what he wants...