globaloney
nounUK /ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/ · CA, US /ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/
Etymology Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.
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US Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
- But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761:
- We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.1950, Joseph S. Davis, “Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, number 251, page 346:
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- –an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, page 142:
- Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home.1992 January, Murray Rothbard, “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement”, in Rothbard-Rockwell Report, page 9:
- Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, Harvard University Press, page 197:
- The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 19: