But Rushdie dismisses this sort of talk as the rantings of "tinpot leaders with no serious following.
Mencken's ears were pretty well shut to the 20th century: Stravinsky, he insisted, "never had a musical idea in his life," and Schoenberg was a "tinpot revolutionist" dealing in .
At the sun-bleached airport, Bush was greeted with the Gulf's signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism.
Anthony Hamilton in Times Online This is what it's all about for us. This and the Masters are the only two events we have. The other tournaments are just tinpot,Hamilton said.