Pundit

A pundit is one who offers their opinion on a particular subject of which they have considerable knowledge. Punditry can apply to politics, social issues, sports, or any other issue. Pundits analyze facts and publish their opinions in order to facilitate discussion of important issues.

On the blogosphere, punditry is widespread. Pundits are common sources of news for many web surfers. This can be both good and bad: while many pundits are eminently qualified in their fields, others are lacking credentials or other proof of their special knowledge of their chosen subject. In the realm of politics, the leading pundits are evenly divided between Republican and Democratic viewpoints. This can be troublesome in American politics, where the line between conservative and liberal is so deeply drawn as to resemble an unbridgeable gap.

While political analysis is always subjective, some complain that strongly conservative and strongly liberal pundits tend to go too far, contributing to the development of increasingly divisive cultural and intellectual spheres. Nonetheless, punditry-based websites are hugely popular, indicating that highly opinionated analysis is simply more interesting to read than neutral reporting.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Pundit”

• Minarets of Dystopia

  
  The Rational Fool — Authority: 111
  Is the ban on new construction of minarets resulting from the 2009 Swiss Referendum Islamophobic? Absolutely! I have little doubt that the 57.5% majority vote, with 22 out of the 26 Cantons approving the ban — enough to amend the Federal Constitution of Switzerland — has been motivated by Islamophobia, a primal ...
  9 hours ago

• Markets Are Still Pessimistic

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 634
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: These two charts record the most dramatic rally in the corporate bond market in modern history, and its far from being over. Earlier this year, when spreads were at their peak, the market was effectively forecasting that a deep depression and a global deflation ...
  14 hours ago

• Why We Need Fresh Blood at the Fed

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 634
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Fed Chairman Bernanke Monday morning attempted to answer everyones most pressing concerns about monetary policy, the economy, and inflation. Bernankes answers revealed a lot about his system of beliefs. From my perspective, he has some problems. Theres really nothing new here, but ...
  20 hours ago

• So Many (Non-)Taxpayers With No Skin in the Game

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 634
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: To sum up the facts put together by The Tax Foundation and TaxProf Blog : One third of those filing tax returns in 2007 paid zero income tax, while about half of those received money from the government. Since 15 million workers did not earn enough to be required to file a return, ...
  22 hours ago

• Fistgate II – The Fequel!

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 627
  Sorry, couldn’t resist the word play in the title of the post. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse than Fistgate , now comes word of Fistgate II! You can read the details about the whole sordid affair over at Big Government and Gateway Pundit , but the headline is that “Fisting Kits” were handed ...
  23 hours ago

• Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert points out that: The idea that fewer than 1 percent of Americans are being called on to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq and that we’re sending them into combat again and again and again — for three tours, four tours, five tours, six tours — is obscene. All decent ...
  23 hours ago

• Burkhalter out of running for Speaker — next!

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 640
  Mark Burkhalter bows out of race for Speaker
  1 day ago

• LOC 48: Nueve, PLEASE

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 125
  Click Image For More... News And Idiotech, Changes to the site, Blogtardistan loves them some gay erotica, and we get a call from a source inside Tiger Woods’ shorts.
  1 day ago

• Financial Conditions Almost Back to Normal

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 634
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Heres an updated chart of financial conditions as measured by Bloomberg. (See more background for this here .) Note the spectacular improvement in this index over the past year. Financial conditions (e.g., credit spreads, implied volatility, interest rates) today are ...
  1 day ago

• Rock Carved Memories

  
  ghumakkar.com — Authority: 116
  This time around, I did not have to go far from Pune to make a trip down the history lane. Within a distance of 40-50 km from Pune, in the lap of Sahyadri, are some of the oldest and some of the finest rock cut caves of western Maharashtra and probably in whole India. Bhaje, [...]
  1 day ago

• The Lunatics Of Our Asylum – Westboro Baptist Church And GLSEN

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 627
  Yesterday a reader sent us the video below, and despite the fact that it looks like it was posted to YouTube last year, it is extremely timely in context with the GLSEN/Kevin Jennings controversy that Jim Hoft has been uncovering on Gateway Pundit in recent days. The GLSEN material is disgusting. On more than one ...
  1 day ago

• Fistgate: Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s 2000 Conference Promoted ‘Fisting’ to 14 Year-Olds

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in 1990. In 2007 Kevin Jennings was paid $273,573.96 as the executive director of GLSEN. Recently he was appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools in the ...
  1 day ago

• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  Weekday wonkery from the people that know they know best: Paul Krugman : Of course, if things go well in Copenhagen, the usual suspects will go wild. We’ll hear cries that the whole notion of global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a vast scientific conspiracy, as demonstrated by stolen e-mail messages ...
  1 day ago

• Is Shashi Tharoor’s speech real and relevant?

  
  A wide angle view of India — Authority: 484
  A recent  speech by Shashi Tharoor is a feel good speech and I would say Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul. Sure, it’s bound to  arouse a certain amount of cynicism because of well, a certain amount of hype. Despite that it’s a speech that can fill one’s heart with hope. It’s not as if  Tharoor has lied ...
  1 day ago

• Have a happy head bath!

  
  A Time To Reflect — Authority: 399
  I recently heard someone explain her Sunday morning ritual; I had a head bath (= washed my hair), she said. Now how long has it been since I heard that phrase? It made me think of other such phrases, unique to (South) Indian English that I used to hear all around me but make me smile fondly now, those rare times I ...
  1 day ago

• In the Lap of the Apple Heartland - Narkanda (HP)

  
  ghumakkar.com — Authority: 116
  Bugged by the exasperating workload, we headed off to Shimla this weekend, to find solace, but only to bump into the whole of Delhi crowd blaring horns in its characteristic fashion. So we bid farewell to the chaotic place, flipping through a local guide book and zipping away on the twisted road, we reached the [...]
  2 days ago

• Gateway Pundit "Attacked": I Call Bull

  
  Jumping in Pools — Authority: 600
  The internets was ablaze with reports that prominent political blogger Gateway Pundit was attacked by shadowy agents of the Obama White House due to a piece written against the "Safe Schools Czar ." Now the report on Kevin Jennings was pretty damning, but still only a rehash copy-and-paste job of a Breitbart B-cast ...
  2 days ago

• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 799
  Sunday opinions, analysis, and wonkery. WaPo : But recent debate -- some scientists say the Earth hasnt warmed as predicted over the past 10 years -- show that climate science is still science, with researchers drawing different lessons from the same data. The problem is that it plays out before an audience ...
  2 days ago

• Obama Hired Supporter of Pedophelia

  
  The Right Guy — Authority: 130
  From being Pro-Abortion and saying a baby is punishment, Obama hired a pro-pedophile freakosexual Kevin Jennings as Safe School Czar. When will it end? From the Founding Bloggers and Gateway Pundit , a story comes forth about Obamas Safe school Czar Kevin Jennings: From GP: The clip is from a lecture by ...
  3 days ago

• Sexualizing Children Is Lucrative! Jennings Earned $270,000.00 in 2007

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 627
  Jim Hoft is still all over the Obama Safe Schools Czar, Kevin Jennings, “Pedophilia-esq” scandal. His latest post contains devastating audio allegedly of a learning session held by GLSEN (Jennings’ advocacy organization) wherein the “teacher” discusses with children such topics as spitting vs. swallowing, ...
  3 days ago

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