1) To restate a remark one finds clever or profound in an effort to garnercredit for it.
2) To loudly and incessantly repeat an inane statement in an effort to end discussion by talking over one's opponent.
1) "While making my presentation my assistant would reidioterate every point I made, parroting my words as if they were his own; perhaps imagining himself as clever by hearing my words from his mouth."
2) " 'If it doesn't fit, you must acquit,' became the mantra Cochran and his supporters would reidioterate as he tried to convince jurors that the case laid out by prosecutors was inconsistent and full of holes."
a play off the word "reiterate;" where an attention-seeking idiot repeats a moderately clever comment multiple times in order to get a better reaction.
"didn't Tanner say that stupid thing about casinos yesterday?"
"Yeah, he's trying to reidiorate."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)