Word: punditing
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...newspaper political columnist is paid to have opinions, and objectivity is neither required nor expected. Particularly in national election years, the pundit is seized with an unconquerable urge to 1) gird his partisan loins, 2) sashay, spear in hand, forth into battle on behalf of his own political beliefs, and 3) relate the whole struggle in uncompromising terms to the state of the nation. Last week, with decision day at hand, the pundits were performing with great zest...
Fledgling Pundit Crosby, an alumnus of Exeter and Yale, says: "I am a reformer, a moralist by nature. The new column will have a strong moral slant. It would be presumptuous to say I will play the role of judge. I will be more a critic of society...
Time magazine has built up an unfortunate reputation for innuendo--which is reinforced in the cover story this week. While the editors pat the New York Times' veteran Arthur Krock atop the head for being "the only ranking political pundit who is not yet wearing his campaign button on his lapel," they use a supposed profile of Sen. Kennedy to slip in several political low blows...
...This is one of those moments," wrote a Rocky Mountain pundit, "when politicians aren't sure whether the voter is apathetic or just laying for somebody." The large bloc (estimated upward of 25%) of "undecided" voters was giving pollsters and politicians the jitters. But that was only half the puzzle: those voters who came into direct contact with Jack Kennedy or Dick Nixon seemed to be impressed. Each candidate was working out a campaign style uniquely his own-and as different from the florid behavior of yesteryear as farm subsidies are from free silver...
...continental allies regard his idea of a European conference as just a device to establish French hegemony in Europe and to exclude Britain from the Continent permanently. As for the idea of a European referendum, the majority of Western European statesmen seemed to share the feeling of a Roman pundit who noted tartly that "Italian politicians mostly feel they have enough trouble with the voters...