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DIVORCED. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, 46, flamboyant Republican pundit, and MICHAEL HUFFINGTON, 49, former California Congressman; ending their 11-year marriage; in Washington...
...would anyone ask faux feminist Paglia her opinion on anything? Since when is Paglia a pundit on popular culture? Her pseudo-intellectual rants and sophomoric philosophizing are pure reactionary rhetoric. DAVID TRUDELL Los Angeles...
Laura Ingraham, the CBS and MSNBC analyst, is as hard as a diamond. Her killer views against gays, feminists, gun-control advocates and welfare stand out even in that booming segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity...
That might have been the end of that, except that when you shoot to the top of the pundit food chain just a year after shedding your lawyer's pinstripes without any tedious apprenticeships, no good deed goes unchallenged. Jeffrey Hart, the Review's faculty adviser, sent a memo to the Weekly Standard saying that Ingraham had some nerve dragging the Review into her "phony political confession" given that no one else there held, as she did, "the most extreme antihomosexual views imaginable." He says she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters...
...legal pundit, or Hamlet invoking "words, words, words" could have explained the wrongful-death lawsuit against Simpson more succinctly. As the defense prepares to rest this week, jurors will ponder what has been presented to them. Under gentle questioning from his attorney, Robert Baker, Simpson constructed the architecture of his life, recounting his impoverished childhood in San Francisco and detailing his development as an athlete throughout high school and college. Baker spent a good deal of time prompting Simpson to list his athletic achievements and awards, from the Heisman trophy in 1967 to his status as perhaps the game...