Gobbledygook

For this answer to a reporter's question in 2002 about links between Saddam Hussein and terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was given a Gobbledygook Award by the Plain English Institute, and immortalized in a Joan Jett song and a collection called "The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld."

Rumsfeld: Know the Unknowns L. Gordon Crovitz 2011

The Online Gobbledygook, Gibberish and Jargon Awards are another attempt to improve writing and communication.

So it’s National Punctuation Day again « Motivated Grammar 2009

Gobbledygook, it is, and no more, masquerading as information.

Just simple preachers. 2009

Golden Age of Gobbledygook commentary  :  Lifestyle   Golden Age of Gobbledygook Momus 10.10.06 Strange as it may seem, there are people who prefer imperfect translation to perfect, just as there are people who think movies have only gone downhill since the silent era.

Golden Age of Gobbledygook 2006

“Gobbledygook,” is how Baratz described the explanation.

‘Healing’ cards offered to victims 2003

Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore presented his second "No Gobbledygook Award" today to two Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees for rewriting a federal regulation on geothermal power.

Vice President Presents Second Plain Language Award ITY National Archives 1998

Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore presented his second "No Gobbledygook Award" today to two Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees for rewriting a federal regulation on geothermal power.

Vp Presents Second Plain Language Award ITY National Archives 1998

Gobbledygook #1, a zine with only 150 known photocopies, created by artists Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.

Wired Top Stories Cameron Bird 2011

In time they won support from President Bill Clinton, who issued a memo endorsing plain language, and Vice President Al Gore, who started the "No Gobbledygook Awards" to encourage clear writing.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

"Quantitative Easing", reporters jobs would be much easier if they were allowed to call a spade a spade, instead of whatever Govt Gobbledygook spin doctors think up.

BBC Ouch! Blog BBC News 2011