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William Lewis Safire (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter. He was perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated politica...
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"Nattering nabobs of negativism." ... Today, the vast majority of Americans of all political stripes -- conservative, liberal, centrist -- don't believe the "nattering nabobs of negativism, a.k.a. the mainstream media, in record numbers.
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In a speech in San Diego in 1970, then Vice President Spiro Agnew used the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" to describe supposed intellectuals who attacked American policy.
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SPIRO T. AGNEW, 1918-1996 ... The nattering nabobs kept their ears open and reported Agnew's verbal misdemeanors of political incorrectness. On a campaign plane, Agnew saw a Japanese-American reporter dozing, and asked someone amiably, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" Consternation ensued among the ethnically sensitive.
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FindLaw | Legal News & Information. ... According to the coiner of the phrase, Safire, nattering is complaining; a nabob – taken from Urdu – is a self-important potentate; and negativism, of course, is habitual skepticism, the tendency to be pessimistic, seeing the world in the worst light possible.
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(Newser) – Bill Safire, to use the phrase he coined, was anything but a "nattering nabob of negativity," writes his New York Times "colleague in columny" Maureen Dowd.
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The Nattering Nabob of Negativism. It"s Therapy on the Cheap ... My intention is to write in this blog about what goes on around me that acts as the catalyst for the emergence of The Nattering Nabob. For all you other Nattering Nabobs, feel free to read, respond, contribute or ignore. ... Labels: nattering. nabob, negativism...
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Doubting Thomas Walkom of the Toronto Star will do anything to undermine support for Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan: ... Canada's purpose in Afghanistan is changing subtly but significantly. When then-prime minister Paul Martin agreed to send combat troops to Kandahar, his aim was ... In the real world of power politics,
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- Sunday, September 27th, 200 ... by Pejman Yousefzadeh ... William Safire, RIP. He had the kind of career most pundits dream of; with experience both as a politico, and as a highly successful opinion-maker.
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