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The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

What follows is scientific bullshitting where someone picks one or two papers out of 10,000, and hopes that you go away thinking Covid is just a common cold or whatever.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2020

When Stephanopoulos reminded Trump that “they’re already there,” the candidate forged ahead like a school kid bullshitting his way through an oral exam that he had not bothered to prepare for.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2016

Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” argues that bullshitting is a more radical attack on truth than lying is: Bullshitting is anything but new to politics, of course.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2015

Second floor was nothing but a hallway where humans were talking and bullshitting.

From Time Magazine Archive