palaverer

Harrison, a born fighter, a palaverer, and who, in the difficult position which he occupied in dealing with unruly settlers on the one hand and turbulent Indians on the other hand, displayed singular tact and ability.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

By EDWARD ALBERT POLLARD (1858) I HAVE reserved for you some account of that most distinguished palaverer, romancer, diplomat, and ultimately a cobbler of old shoes -- Junk.

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

Now that you’ve covered the sex lives of Hillary and Bill Clinton with a front page story in the New York Times, would you please dig into the sex lives of your boss, Bill Keller, the Times’ Executive Editor, or the Washington Post’s media maven, Howie Kurtz, or its lecherous old pundit and political palaverer, David Broder, all of whom stroked your “Post” Page 6 story into premature prominence.

Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Some Inconvenient Truths 2006

Now that you’ve covered the sex lives of Hillary and Bill Clinton with a front page story in the New York Times, would you please dig into the sex lives of your boss, Bill Keller, the Times’ Executive Editor, or the Washington Post’s media maven, Howie Kurtz, or its lecherous old pundit and political palaverer, David Broder, all of whom stroked your “Post” Page 6 story into premature prominence.

Firedoglake » I Need a Scorecard 2006