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Your wording might leave one unsure about the usage of the phrase, so please let me take the liberty (that's what it's all about, isn't it?) of clarifying: Mr Safire wrote "nattering nabobs of negativism" for Spiro Agnew, then Richard Nixon's vice president, to use to describe the press in an unsuccessful attempt...
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This is a scalable context timeline. ... In listening to his press conference, I heard echoes of… Agnew’s famous line: ‘In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.’ If the war in Iraq continues on its current trajectory, we might expect the spirit of Agnew to rise...
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I suppose time will tell whether the “nattering nabobs of negativism” this ... be discussed further in the context of the current operating environment: A ...
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problems in the context of an overall system (in this case, ... locking, with its “nattering nabobs of negativism” world-view (to borrow a phrase from ...
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And in the American context, ... When liberals uses the classic Safire-authored line "nattering nabobs of negativism" to defend the least competent President we've had since Carter, and potentially the most corrupt president since Nixon (he shot past Clinton during the campaign, when he recruited local law-enforcement...
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"Nattering nabobs of negativism" is one of the most popular turns of phrase associated with U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, ... According to the Congressional Record, this term was first used during Agnew's address to the California Republican state convention in San Diego on September 11, 1970. In context,
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I was having breakfast with some friends and we were laughing at the various labels that have been given to Moscow's wing-nuts: ... But that "nattering nabobs of negativism" is just a dandy! ... # What was the context in which Agnew used that phrase?
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We don't, and we're going to keep hammering on these nattering nabobs of negativism because, as Jon Stewart once said in a semi-related context, they're hurting America...
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words and pictures of the riots created an intimacy with shock. In that context the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on live TV is the historic flash point. ... Spiro Agnew railed against Nattering Nabobs of Negativism. SDS spawned the underground press, with publications like the LA Free Press and the Berkeley Barb.
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