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The most popular topics — sociology, economics, and religion — may have been research material for the haranguers and bloviators who took to the park’s “speakers’ corner” to spiel at the passing audiences.

A lot of faux militaristic, spittle-flying haranguers say the same things as they pass through head coaching jobs in the NFL.

Toni greets these uninvited guests the way cable TV haranguer and host Nancy Grace might greet a convicted sex offender.

The insides of Metro stations, which aren’t considered public forums, are off-limits not only to political campaigners, leafleters and soapbox haranguers but also to artistic performers, although station managers sometimes look the other way.

President Barack Obama turned the tables on his haranguers in the media and in Congress at a star-studded dinner Saturday night, taking smiling pot shots at some of his most persistent critics.