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  • Closest I can come is E.J. Dione is the leftwing version of Will, ideologically if not in pompousity.

    Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks 2009

  • Once again DM shows his ignorance and pompousity with misinformation.

    Sound Politics: Global Warming Update 2007

  • Even if you don't agree with the political stuff, his puncturing of pompousity ought to evoke giggles.

    Clearing the Pipes Richard Nokes 2005

  • Even if you don't agree with the political stuff, his puncturing of pompousity ought to evoke giggles.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Kurt may or may not be a pompous ass and believe me, I have my own thoughts on that!...my only point is that you don't beat pompousity by limiting it - you beat it by competing with it.

    This Hurts, But... Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • The performance piece continues and with each passing day, the willfull blindness, obstinance, cravenness and pompousity of the washington insider press is on full display for all the world to behold.

    Firedoglake » Carpe Diem 2006

  • They are suddenly realizing they have lost sovereignty by signing onto the whole EU scam and these leaked emails and info files have put the cherry on the parfait of pompousity.

    Maggie's Farm 2009

  • It is a tribute to Rush’s pompousity that he is trying to convince someone that actually LIVES in NO that what he is seeing isn’t true “don’t believe your lying eyes, all is according to plan!”

    Think Progress » Limbaugh’s first day back on New Orleans radio: 2005

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