bloviate AmE

It's not as if they lack opportunity to bloviate elsewhere.

The verb "to bloviate" is the act of creating bloviation.

Truisms bloviate into the purplest of profundities.

Politicians bloviate.

On the other hand, Wilson could not bloviate, as the windbag Harding put it: speak impromptu with incoherent passion.

Political punditry is a pretty cushy business for reporters because most of what gets written concerns things that have already happened, and how hard can it be to bloviate with perfect hindsight?

It does not count designated periods in which members can bloviate on all manner of things (say, the plumage of a state bird or the efforts of a national championship football team).

With Mr. Imus's high-profile morning slot on WFAN abruptly empty, they were asked to replace him and bloviate about sports on a double shift basis in the station's emergency attempt at damage control.

Reynolds writes, "where before journalists and pundits could bloviate at leisure, offering illogical analysis or citing 'facts' that were in fact false, now the Sunday morning op-eds have already been dissected on Saturday night, within hours of their appearing on newspapers' websites."

Most of the Cabinet would be on the train with the President, and they would make leisurely stops across the country so that W.G. could bloviate and get his strength back, renewed by the crowds who loved him even if the Senate did not.

I also appear regularly on a local Times-produced show here in New York, and occasionally on various other broadcast outlets whose producers are looking for a talking head to take a shot at The Times, defend The Times or bloviate about the state of American journalism.

Like a long-defeated pol tugging the visitor's sleeve to bloviate once again about how he was robbed at the polls, the author treats us to yet another heated account of Yeltsin's "double game" in late 1991, when he "sacrificed" the Soviet Union "to his passionate desire to accede to the throne in the Kremlin."