Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...took heat for crossing Tonight's picket line. Meanwhile, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, TV's havens-in-exile for Bush bashers, found themselves getting turned down by Democratic and left-leaning guests, since they were working without striking writers. Stephen Colbert, in character as a conservative pundit, railed against Barack Obama for pledging, if he's President, to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yet turning down the Report: "He's saying Stephen Colbert is worse than a terrorist. His words!" The strike, if it continues, could produce a critical talk-show gap. (Fortunately for Obama, Oprah doesn...
...will to prognosticate is the dark addiction of the pundit class. No matter how wrong they got Iowa and New Hampshire, Republicans were soon buzzing over phone lines and trading emails about the road ahead. McCain and Huckabee are chasing Romney into Michigan, hoping to land a knockout punch in the state where Romney's father was once governor. Four days past that comes South Carolina, where McCain's 2000 bid was rudely demolished. But there, as everywhere, the political landscape is changed in unpredictable ways. The state's solid G.O.P. machine has fragmented into factions only occasionally willing...
...Joffrin isn't the only pundit who has lamented Sarkozy's star-struck flashiness in an office formerly characterized by the monumental solemnity of Charles de Gaulle, the intellectual loftiness exhibited by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand, and the less formal yet dignified detachment of Jacques Chirac. The French media has wryly covered Sarkozy's open affection for celebrities like iconic rock star Johnny Hallyday, popular comic actor Christian Clavier, and the subtly named Doc Gyneco - a rapper whose dwindling popularity and fan base further shrunk when he announced his support for Sarkozy...
...fact that such inane and nonsensical arguments as Whitlock’s get major national attention and are repeated by many a pundit only points to the sad state of affairs we as Americans have reached when it comes to addressing our problems. In sports, our misdirected ire manifests itself when we write silly columns like Whitlock’s, or when we chastise Barry Bonds for cheating when our society prioritizes winning at any cost, or when we bad-mouth Alex Rodriguez for loving money despite this nation’s materialistic culture. And it?...
...coach and be required to feed back information on training and tactical suggestions to members via a blog. Daish backs the plan, and as Brooks points out, "Liam has never paid any money for a player before, now he might be able to buy one." Former player now BBC pundit Garth Crooks applauds the concept of fan-ownership but is wary of supporters' involvement in team selection, "It seems like great fun but impractical: more fitting for Fantasy Football than the real game...