Rick Casey: Maury Maverick Sr. wouldn’t come up with the term “gobbledygook” until after his first mayoral term ended in defeat.
He cited a piece by David Broder, the Washington Post’s lead political writer, as an example. Broder was touting the U.S. attorney in Chicago as having a having a bright political future because he had established himself as Mr. Clean by sending prominent Illinois politicians of both parties to prison.
“Clout is used to circumvent the law, not to enforce it. It is used to bend rules, not follow them,” Royko wrote. “That is why Thompson can be considered as anti-clout.”in the New York Times. Dowd is a wonderful writer, somewhat in the Royko tradition. She has the same tough-guy ability to use language as bipartisan jabs, hooks and roundhouses. She has pummeled Bill and Hillary Clinton as mercilessly as she has Donald Trump.
Then she stumbled. She tripped over a word that— just as “clout” was linked to Chicago — is linked to San Antonio. What’s more, her misuse of the word was similar to Broder’s. Hailing from South Carolina, Sam Maverick set out to Texas and became a very successful land speculator in and around San Antonio and two-time mayor of the budding town.
In his book Maury Maverick also credited an ancestor of his great grandmother, a Virginia planter and judge named Charles Lynch, with giving us that fearful term through his harsh and perhaps premature sentencing of Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. That account is not undisputed. After forbidding “gobbledygook language” such as “finalizing” and “pointing up” it concluded: “Anyone using the words ‘activation’ or ‘implementation’ will be shot.”
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