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Newt Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the 104th Congress, turned out to be not only a loudmouth and a joke, but a complete jerk: a politician his colleagues nicknamed the "bombthrower."
Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After Nigel Hamilton 2010
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Newt Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the 104th Congress, turned out to be not only a loudmouth and a joke, but a complete jerk: a politician his colleagues nicknamed the "bombthrower."
Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After Nigel Hamilton 2010
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Newt Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the 104th Congress, turned out to be not only a loudmouth and a joke, but a complete jerk: a politician his colleagues nicknamed the "bombthrower."
Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After Nigel Hamilton 2010
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Newt Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the 104th Congress, turned out to be not only a loudmouth and a joke, but a complete jerk: a politician his colleagues nicknamed the "bombthrower."
Nigel Hamilton: The Meltdown -- and After Nigel Hamilton 2010
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Furthermore, NEWSWEEK's calling Hirsi Ali "a bombthrower" when she is using peaceful means to fight people who use bombs to kill innocents is an attempt to paint her as no better than a terrorist.
Mail Call 2007
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It was never my personal style to be a bombthrower.
Hullabaloo 2006
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But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation's historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show bombthrower to put his mitts on a rare (and fragile) artifact?
ArchivesBlogs 2010
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Coulter may be reprising her role as lead bombthrower.
Jihad Monitor 2010
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Barra is normally all aces, but I think the Munson comment -- while maybe being something a bombthrower like me might write from time to time -- is in poor taste and beneath Barra's considerable stature.
The Hardball Times 2009
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How ANYONE could ever cast a vote for this rabid hate-filled bombthrower POS just shows how sick and twisted half the population is.
Latest Articles 2008
Redwines commented on the word bombthrower
I looked this word up on Urban Dictionary's website at this link: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bomb%20thrower
There are several definitions posted by different individual, including the apparent original usage referring to late 19th century anti-Czarists in Russia and Catholic participants in the N. Ireland conflict. Also applied to radicals, religious fanatics who are terrorists and now a colloquial term used to describe troublemakers and trolls or someone who stirs up passions and controversy over a particular statement or item of interest.
I was interested because a mainstream news article just described anti-Michelle Bachmann bloggers as bombthrowers.
July 19, 2011