The word is an amalgam of "(to) blowhard" and "to obviate".
When Glenn Beck is not simply bloviating through any issue he fails to understand, he is issuing clear directives to his Tea Bagger fans to overthrow the government by force, if necessary.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, bloviate.
CNN's Rick Sanchez thinks he has dicovered the word "bloviate", but he has absolutely no idea what it means. It's a rare example of a bloviator bloviating about "bloviate".
My best friend in High School and I made up this word back around 1972 or 1973. Our definition then was someone who expounded at great lengths, not knowing when to shut up.
A Bloviator to us was a person who when you asked him what time it was, he told you how to build a watch.
The preacher got wound up in the sermon last Sunday. He began to bloviate and went past the usual time to get out of church.
When a mononeural right wing fool who begins arguments he can't back up and tries to get out of being called out using a feeble, unsuccessful attempt at reverse psychology and fails miserably. See: "Filthy Rick Sanchez"; "Capping Simp Bot".
1. A public figure, such as a politician or an actor, who makes outlandish, strident statements on issues, thinking that the average man will care about their opinions.
2. Someone who pontificates about issues of which they are uninformed, yet pretend to be expert.
3. Pompous blowhard, using their celebrity to speak about topics on which they are totally unqualified.