Word: punditizing
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Some, observers thought the debacle of New Hampshire would cause Truman to announce his plans soon, possibly at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington March 29. Many a pundit thought this was just the kind of rebuke which might bring Truman out as a fighting candidate. No matter how the President reacted, the New Hampshire voters had proved he was wrong when he scoffed at the primary as just "eyewash." Or, if it was eyewash, Harry Truman was up to his eyeballs...
With the stringy taste of 1948's crow still in their mouths, the brothers Alsop and many another pundit had determined not to eat it again over last week's New Hampshire primaries. Out-of-state correspondents had swarmed all over New Hampshire in an unprecedented invasion, finding out how the ordinary voters felt-one great omission in 1948. By Election Day, many correspondents felt that they had measured the pulse pretty well, and they began to sidle toward the steam table where the crow was kept warm...
...conflicting analyses of American civil liberties appeared in newspaper articles this week. The first article, by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, warned of a drift in the direction of repressive orthodoxy. The second, by Boston political pundit W. E. Mullins, stated that civil liberties are not under serious attack here, and that there is no emphasis on conformity. If Mr. Mullins had opened any paper besides his own, he would have learned differently. For in the past two weeks alone, three organized conformist pressure groups have drawn blood...
...treated by the Herald. Fortnight ago, Crider ran an editorial which shredded Senator Taft's new book, A Foreign Policy for Americans. Wrote Crider: "Standing against what Mr. Taft says he's for is what he voted against." Yet, across the page, the Herald's political pundit, W.E. Mullins, praised the book in his review...
With everyone else getting into the act, the Kansas City Star's president and political pundit, Roy A. Roberts, could be expected to trundle his own 250 lbs. onstage. This week he turned up on a network radio program to talk about Dwight Eisenhower as a possible candidate for President. As a longtime Eisenhower backer, Pundit Roberts had some familiar things to say: "Events in Europe will determine if he will run . . . I don't speak for him, but if rearming and rewelding Western Europe together . . . is well along its way, it's my guess and hunch...