(1) You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field.
(2) Steve Almond wrote in the Baffler in 2012 that Stewart’s schtick was evidence of an audience “gone to lard morally”, and a betrayal of comedy’s radical impulses.
(3) These were best summarised in his seminal essay, The Problem with Music , published in the Baffler in 1993.
Waffler
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Example Sentences:
(1) Dour Stannis, the most famous waffler south of Hot Pie the baker's boy, faces some big decisions.