Timeline for What is the name of the tactic that politicians use to bury people with torrent of words?
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | David M | @izkata read my comment to Owen. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | David M | @Owen I agree that I initially read it as the tactic. Which filibuster fits more closely. But, I think that the burying of people in unnecessary verbiage is to bloviate. This is an excellent answer. It's the opposite side of the same coin. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 1:02 | comment | added | David M | Good one! I couldn't think of it last night. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 19:03 | comment | added | Izkata | @OwenBlacker It instead reminds me of how politicians talk on TV/in interviews, outside of Congress, all the time | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:49 | comment | added | Owen Blacker | @Izkata I think that distinction is paper-thin. To my mind, "It reminds me of a tactic politicians use to waste people's time. I came across this word before but I can't retrieve it from either memory or the internet." suggested that the OP was asking for the word about the political tactic in particular. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | Izkata | @OwenBlacker Question asks for "waste people's time", not "stall for time". The difference is slight, but it's the difference between the two words. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Owen Blacker | Lovely word, but not the correct answer; filibustering (per David M below) is the specific term for the political tactic, which is what I understood the question to be asking. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 17:21 | vote | accept | George Chen | ||
| Mar 27, 2014 at 17:21 | comment | added | George Chen | I think this must be it. Last time when I search that word on youtube, I landed on a pundit speaking on and on and after several minutes I still don't have a clue who he was for or against. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 15:10 | history | answered | bib | CC BY-SA 3.0 |