Soundbite = Claptrap?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peace floats. Join the parade.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

For such a death as this, we ask your pardon.
For such a word as forgive, we listen in wonder.
For such pain as this, we cringe.
For such a time as this, we pray for hope.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Rambo is my hero. I’ll bet he could even take Samson, the first super-hero.”

[He was an ultimate fighter, but He didn’t say this.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week – “claptrap”

[Thanks to answers.com]

Pretentious, insincere, or empty language: “I hate … that air/Of claptrap, which your recent poets prize” (Byron).

[Obsolete: claptrap, a theatrical trick to win applause : CLAP + TRAP.]

Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, fustian, grandiloquence, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity.

Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle.

Informal: tommyrot.
Slang: applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull, bunk, crap, hooey, malarkey.

[Does it strike you, as it does me, that we have a lot of unusual words for this phenomenon? I'd like to add "soundbite" to the list. -- And, I wonder how applesauce got in there...]