"Because it's basically been snake oil salesman and the like that they're supposed to protect people from," she said.

They listened to charlatans and snake oil salesmen and were too stupid not realise they were being stuffed.

You sir, are a snake oil salesman.

American SF, therefore, is a tissue of frauds, and its practicioners fools at best, but mostly snake- oil salesmen.

PS I never ever thought that I would post anything to defend the greatest actor and snake oil salesman ever.

After moving to Montana in 1935, he worked as a ranch hand, truck driver, power-line rigger and oil salesman before investing in the oil business.

Almanzo found work as an oil salesman and general delivery man, while Laura took in boarders and served meals to local railroad workers.

Squeezed by military pressure from Iraq, Iranian oil salesmen have led the way in slashing prices by $2 to $3 a barrel to sell more oil.

Those who sold them were called "snake oil salesmen," and usually sold their medicines with a fervent pitch similar to a fire and brimstone religious sermon.

They were snake oil salesmen who promised to wash politics whiter than white, purer than pure.