Word: grandstanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe in trying to find out what this isall about. And no one knows. The Department ofEnergy has done something typical of ourgovernment," Wilson said. "It's a grandstand playby the head who doesn't know beans about scienceand who says we're now releasing things that weresecret before. It's a real cover-us with givingpeople too much information so that people cannotfind the real information...
...matter, Aspin flatly stated, would be submitted to him for review. The next day, Mundy, who had been outspoken in opposition to accepting gays in the service, performed his act of contrition at a press conference. He acknowledged "blind-siding" the President. "I just kicked this one in the grandstand," he said. "I did not adequately inform my civilian superiors of the policy." While many military experts sympathized with Mundy's concern for the impact of marriage troubles on his troops, Clinton pounced on the political and constitutional folly of such a policy. "The President nailed the Marine Corps hide...
Arnold sees these outbursts as "attempts to grandstand... these congressmen are saying, 'Look at me, I'm the savior of the taxpayers...
...Cronkite believes Rather has "blown it" as an anchor. "He's stiff and uncomfortable. Look at the ratings . . . If it weren't for developments in the gulf, he might be out of a job by now." Cronkite sees Rather's month-long sojourn in the Middle East as a grandstand ploy. "Why didn't he turn it over to a correspondent?" he asks. Cronkite, a CBS board member, confirms that the news division has begun yet another round of belt tightening, and contends that CBS News already can't cover events adequately...