Are Political Pundits Smart Enough to Advise the Nation?
Pundit is defined as ‘someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field, an initiate, a learned person, savant.’ In politics? Are you kidding?
According to Peter Baker’s recent WaPo article-Pundits Renounce the President;
For 10 minutes, the talk show host (Joe Scarborough) grilled his guests about whether "George Bush's mental weakness is damaging America's credibility at home and abroad." For 10 minutes, the caption across the bottom of the television screen read, "IS BUSH AN 'IDIOT'?"
This from a conservative ‘political pundit,’ which seems to me an oxymoron. Pundit is defined as ‘someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field, an initiate, a learned person, savant.’ In politics? Are you kidding? No Maureen Dowds or William Kristols to be found in that descriptive phrase, for sure. Even less, if the hue and cry is to be believed, are to be found out there in the blogosphere.
Which, of course, includes me.
Further along in the article, Baker quotes Rich …