Word: blusterer
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...this seems like the bluster of someone who can't write a hit, it isn't. Adams has several songs--The Rescue Blues, Nuclear and, from his latest album, So Alive--that could be rock standards with a little promotional effort on his part, but he hates the thought of being imprisoned by popularity so much that he scolded Elton John for boosting him. "I was becoming a catch phrase," says Adams. "There's nothing worse than being the thing that uncool people buy because it makes them feel cool...
...taken some time for Americans to realize that Bush’s adventure in Iraq, for all of the bluster about an easy war and steady progress toward peace, will have devastating long-term consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Bush traded a war to prevent terror for a war that invites it, and the teachings of Iraqi terrorists will not be lost on malcontents worldwide, who now know that undermining U.S. presence is as easy...
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...