Word: punditing
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...urging divestment from the Soviet Union is fair play, you may say, placing South, Africa and la belle Russe on your ethical scale and coming up with something known in the international pundit biz as "moral equivalence...
...veteran Cambridge political pundit, and he's bound to tell you why this year's race for nine City Council spots is like no other in recent memory...
...Because nothing much was known about him, the 37-year-old electrical engineer became a tabula rasa on which Americans etched their uneasiness and projected their fantasies of retaliation. Goetz was also a media-made man, composed of scraps of headlines and bits of film topped off with a pundit's knowing gloss. He seemed to symbolize the spirited underdog, the man who bellows out of his apartment window, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore...
...into effect, amounted to a "use of military assets as incompetent as the Iranian rescue mission or the Bay of Pigs." Calling the shift of U.S. troops a "retreat," Will charged that the U.S. may be "in the process of erasing itself from the Middle East. Another conservative pundit, the New York Times's William Safire, agreed: "We are failing because we want to settle, and the other side wants to win." In seeking to influence events from a position of both military safety and military strength in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration seemed to have achieved the worst...
...entourages are new to covering national campaigns. Says Bernard Weinraub, a veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times: "It looked like something that I ought to try once, and now that I have, once seems like it may be the right number." But many an editor or pundit - a "big foot," in the parlance of the bus - enjoys returning to the trail occasionally. Says Des Moines Register Editor James Gannon: "I go to see the reporters, who are my pals, as much as the candidates...