Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George W. Bush has every reason to hate Pat Buchanan. After all, the pundit turned candidate savaged the Texas Governor's father in '92, when Buchanan challenged President Bush for the G.O.P. nomination, labeling him "King George." And Buchanan has attacked the younger Bush on everything from free trade to abortion, referring to him as the "prince...
...sound funny. It's an invaluable talent in a disinformation age in which it has become more and more difficult to talk about things as they actually are. There's a near constant rush toward metaphorization, toward transmuting events into mediagenic terms. Oral sex isn't about sex, some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through the b.s. Suddenly we wake up, like Keanu Reeves...
...Buchanan is providing George W. Bush's campaign staff with some much-needed ? if probably short-lived ? dramatic tension. The political pundit and columnist, who recently dismissed the GOP as "a Xerox copy of the Democratic party," confirmed on Monday morning?s "Today" show that he is thinking of defecting from the GOP and seeking the Reform party?s nomination for president. Not that Buchanan should assume the welcome wagon will be wheeled out for him. If he does push to be the nominee of the party founded by Ross Perot ? he said he would make the "agonizing" decision...
...losers: Alexander and Dan Quayle. Alexander spent more time in-state than any other candidate and ended up with only 1,428 votes to show for it. Quayle's eighth-place showing left him below even no-hope Republican pundit Alan Keyes, but his campaign manager gamely promised to stay in, if not 'til the last dog dies, then at least until the polls close in New Hampshire...
Above all, the pundit said a lack of sense of belonging among children and the lack of ability to understand others are key causes of their desires to inflict pain on each other...