Word: punditizing
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...wrote shrewd, able Frank Richardson Kent last week in the Baltimore Sun on the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With Pundit Kent most wiseacres were ready to agree that, despite the record-breaking Democratic vote and wishful talk of "united non-partisan effort" the business of Government-by-politics would go on about as usual in the U. S. for the next four years. In his campaign President-elect Roosevelt exhibited himself as a smart politician and no smart politician who wants to stay in power suddenly and violently revolutionizes the game's rules on his first deal...
...remarkable that Pundit Lippmann should flay the Herald Tribune's candidate. The paper engaged him, as a wise observer and able writer, with the understanding that he should enjoy freedom of expression. Month ago he plumped publicly for Roosevelt. But seldom had he been so sharp-spoken and the obvious deletions, plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about...
Last week Joseph Patrick Tumulty, secretary to Woodrow Wilson, confirmed a new and curious bit of U. S. history which had been dug up and quietly divulged by Political Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune. What brought it to light was this year's Republican dirge that Governor Roosevelt's election would cause business to mark time from November until March...
Sixteen years ago President Wilson thought he was as good as defeated by Charles Evans Hughes in an election which seemed to mean War or Peace. Democratic clamor against a change of White House leadership seemed to be falling on deaf ears. Pundit Lippmann's bit of history...
Most Republicans have politely endured the analytical thrusts of the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann at Herbert Hoover only because Pundit Lippmann has been equally severe upon Governor Roosevelt. He has called the Democratic nominee "hollow, synthetic, a pleasant man who. without any important qualifications, would very much like to be President." Last week Pundit Lippmann swallowed his words and in the Hoover-rooting Herald Tribune plumped for the Democratic nominee. Excerpts from his reasons...