Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ventures slightly beyond his cube to write "a diary of my thoughts as I transmogrified from a bachelor to a husband," with more than 150 short essays on everything from aging brains to real estate on the moon, all of them delivered with his usual sardonic verve. This offbeat pundit is welcome news on or off the comics page...
...important voice was as wrong as any of them and now is among the most censorious about the way things have turned out. Yet this voice has never acknowledged its previous errors. In fact, no one expects it to do so, even though it is more responsible than any pundit for U.S. policy in Iraq. This is the voice of the citizenry, the American people...
...Blackstone-induced "class envy," as TV pundit Larry Kudlow has called it, is not the only reason Congress has suddenly developed an interest in the subject. Nobody proposes touching Schwarzman's big founder's stake, which slipped below $8 billion within days as Blackstone's stock price dropped. At issue instead is the mere $398 million he made as CEO last year, much of it in carried interest on Blackstone's investments. And the manner in which carried interest is taxed is enough to make even a megamillionaire corporate CEO envious...
...Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is probably the best example of this, playing a constant game of "Can you top this?" with herself, as in March, when she told the Conservative Political Action Conference that she would have a comment on Senator John Edwards, "but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot." Coulter is only the most egregious example - from Bill O'Reilly on Fox to Glenn Beck on CNN, offense is the coin of the cable realm...
...Every public figure - athlete, pundit, actor - now has two audiences: the one he or she is addressing and the one that will eventually read the blogs or see the viral video. A few have adapted, like Stephen Colbert, whose routine at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was decried by attendees as rude and shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed...