How silly of me to think I could hold my own in a battle of wits with the likes of Mr. Johnson--if that indeed is his real name:)   I mean, really, who could possibly make the following statement--quoted from Mr. Johnson's comments above--without being a world-class expert in the type of verbal diarrhea he captures so well in this nugget alone: 

"Ironically those selfsame bureaucratic clerks who are paid a pittance to create reams of “current statistical facts” take umbrage when those” facts” disprove their shibboleths. They then resort to verbose commentary, a veritable word salad of cliches and malapropisms attempting to obfuscate the issue."  

This guy must get paid a lot of money to sound so erudite while literally saying nothing of substance, but which does not prevent him from declaring "victory" as if it is self-evident, at least to himself, that he has had the "last" word.  But it does remind me of why I chose not to pursue a career in either the law or public relations:)