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...straight. Even supporters like National Review editor William J. Buckley Jr. found it difficult to defend Buchanan after his comments about Treblinka and the alleged dual loyalties of Jews during the gulf war. Michael Kinsley, Buchanan's Crossfire co-host for two years, points out that it is a pundit's business to spew out provocative opinions like an open fire hydrant. But he insists, as do most of Buchanan's colleagues, that the candidate is not anti- Semitic: "I never heard him make a disparaging remark about Jews, never noticed any difference in the way he treats Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans The Thorn in Bush's Right Side | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...FIRST PUNDIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Feb. 3, 1992 | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...pandering to domestic politics, Bush diminishes his nation, his office and himself. He betrays a weakness of character -- a lack of grace, and guts, under pressure. His campaign for re-election hasn't even got tough. So far he faces opposition from a conservative pundit and TV talking head who has never run for dogcatcher, a former Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Pooh-Bah who was recently rejected by the good people of Louisiana, and a Democratic field that has yet to close ranks behind a compelling candidate or a coherent platform. Yet already Bush is running scared. Even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...need someone who can give you the winners before the official count is finished. You need a pundit...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: You Just Don't Get It, Do You? | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

...satisfaction that can come from exposing the press as an insidious conspiracy. These groups now abound on the left and the right, groups with such names as Morality in Media and Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME). There are also aquatic watchdog publications such as Greenpeace Pundit Watch and watchdog books such as Unreliable [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media. One outfit even publishes an annual guide that rates journalists on a four-star basis, as if they were restaurants or portable vacuum cleaners. It is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Media's Wacky Watchdogs | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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