Editing Gibberish (section)

===Gobbledygook===
The term "gobbledygook" has a long history of use in politics to deride deliberately obscure statements and complicated but ineffective explanations. The following are a few examples:

* [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[Nixon White House tapes|Oval Office tape]] from June 14, 1971, showed [[H. R. Haldeman]] describing a situation to Nixon as "... a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: You can't trust the government; you can't believe what they say."<ref>{{cite book |last=Wheen |first=Francis |year=2010 |title=Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia |publisher=Public Affairs |isbn=978-0-00-744120-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/strangedaysindee00whee/page/11 11–12] |url=https://archive.org/details/strangedaysindee00whee |url-access=registration}}</ref>

* [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] explained tax law revisions in an address to the nation with the word, May 28, 1985, saying that "most didn’t improve the system; they made it more like Washington itself: Complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes, designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers."<ref>{{cite web |title=Simpson's contemporary quotations |publisher=Bartleby.com |url=http://www.bartleby.com/63/38/338.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207025031/http://www.bartleby.com/63/38/338.html |archive-date=7 December 2008 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

* [[Supreme Court of the United States]] justice [[John Roberts]] dismissed quantitative sociological reasoning as "gobbledygook" in 2017, when arguing against using any mathematical test for [[gerrymandering]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Oliver |last=Roeder |date=17 October 2017 |title=The Supreme Court is allergic to math |website=[[FiveThirtyEight]] |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-court-is-allergic-to-math/ |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

* [[Michael Shanks (public official)|Michael Shanks]], former chairman to the [[Consumer Futures|National Consumer Council]] of [[Great Britain]], characterized professional gobbledygook as sloppy jargon intended to confuse nonspecialists: "'Gobbledygook' may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy."<ref>{{cite web |title=Contemporary Quotes |url=http://www.chat11.com/Contemporary_Quotes |date=October 2007 |website=Chat11.com |access-date=4 February 2014 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=23 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723003537/http://www.chat11.com/Contemporary_Quotes |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2014}}