Word: punditizing
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...odious article titled "Know Your Enemy," in which it listed a series of people and organizations it considered hostile to conservative values. In response, a Crimson editorialist wrote a column attacking Peninsula and the members of its staff for holding "fascist," intolerant views. The net result of this pundit mini-war was that a member of the Peninsula staff got home the next day to find a swastika taped to his door...
Always remember that as Clinton journeyed through his electoral life, he continuously solicited advice. What pundits today term as indecisiveness is actually Clinton's conservative tendency to get all opinions before he acts. Although he has always sought counsel from an exceptional number of people, there has been only one constant advisor for the past 21 years. Yes, that's right: Hillary Clinton. Regardless of his own virtue, Clinton would have never made it past county commissioner without his wife. In Primary Colors, the Hillary-character calls the Bill-character an "unorganized, undisciplined, thoughtless, faithless shit." She can say this...
...busboy, Cokie Roberts and Wendy Wasserstein were charming. I had a 15-minute conversation with The New Yorker's baseball writer, Roger Angell '42, much of it even before we began discussing the philosophy classes we'd taken in Emerson Hall. And watching the interview of a political pundit who preceded him on the show, James Cann asked me, as Sonny Corleone himself might have, "What's gonna happen with this Whitewater business...
...sign of a good idea is that you think it's been done before. But in Kennedy & Nixon (Simon & Schuster; 377 pages; $25), author Christopher Matthews, a newspaper columnist and television pundit, places a frame around these epic 20th century figures for the first time, revealing in this smart, well-researched, readable book that the two cold warriors had more in common than one may suspect. Matthews' thesis is that both Kennedy and Nixon secretly despised the Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition...
...well in conversation with his colleagues, his specialty being what my daughters used to call the harsh snap. Around the time of the Iowa caucuses, I don't think I was the only consumer of campaign coverage who longed for the capacity to trade a few hundred hours of pundit blather for 30 seconds of what Bob Dole was saying about Steve Forbes in private...