Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wagons they call 'women'"--caused USA Today to drop her from its pages. But it's precisely that kind of tart talk that has turned Coulter's books, including her most recent, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), into best sellers and made her a popular pundit on the political-talk-show circuit. Her mission, she says, was "to energize the liberal base because every time one of them opens their mouth, George W. Bush is even more popular with the American people...
...pillars of 24-hour news media? Comparing the anchors and talking heads doesn’t reveal much. To call Jamal Rayyin, an Al-Jazeera news anchor who told me that Jews were behind the September 11 attacks, more biased than Ann Coulter, a popular Fox pundit who told America that liberals were really to blame for the tragedy, seems like a useless exercise anyways. The place to look to uncover bias will always be off camera. In Al-Jazeera’s case, you’ll find that literally all of the station’s top executives?...
...Court TV pundit and former prosecutor Andrea Sacco Camacho said neither of the two sides have a noticeable advantage so far in the case...
DOES IT WEIRD YOU OUT THAT PEOPLE TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY AS A POLITICAL PUNDIT? Well, I don't know that that's the case. But I will tell you this: I don't put any stock in political commentating. Political commentators at this point are mostly rewarded by the extremity of their viewpoint. Most of the analysis you see on television doesn't reflect the general sense that the public feels about a situation. It's two sides advocating, with no arbitration...
...kids--like Tucker Carlson. But with his new children's book, Lu and the Swamp Ghost, the Democratic strategist targets a younger demo. The tale is based on a story from his mother's childhood. "A tramp hung out on the bayou behind her house," says the Cajun pundit. "She befriended this guy, and would give him foodstuffs. It's a story about the difference between riches and [monetary] wealth." We're pretty sure even Carlson couldn't argue with that...