- A public figure, with access to media coverage, who makes outlandish, strident statements on issues, thinking that the average man will care about their opinions.
2. Someone who pontificates on issues of which they are uninformed, yet pretend to be expert.
3. Pompous blowhard, intentionally speaking about topics on which they are totally unqualified.
bloviator criteria:
Inflammatory rhetoric works best when the
speaker can square off against traditional targets
When
they portend to be speaking truth to power,
bloviators
deliberately attempt to say what others
don't
want us to hear.
Their bravado is always sham bravado. They're not
going to run the
risk of saying anything that will make
their own
partisans shift uncomfortably in their seats
The "hard truths" bloviators tell are claims
intended to
get a rise out of the people on the other side, to the
gratification of the people on their own.
In today's clamorous media world there aren't any
silent corners left— everybody is talking at once,
The
bloviators have to be pretty strident to get heard
over the
din and clutter.
These days, telling it like it is means testifying
to your anger with plain talk and raw invective.
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