No, it’s more like ‘Nattering Nabobs of negativity’...............
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
From speech delivered November 13, 1969 in Des Moines, Iowa
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Denouncing Moratorium Day protest against Vietnam War; in The New York Times (October 20, 1969)
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Speech in San Diego (September 11, 1970).
Spiro was directly over the target.