punditry

Punditry is the practice of offering one's opinion on a particular subject of which one has considerable knowledge. A pundit can be an expert on 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.

Still, "pundit" threatens to become a derogatory term in our culture, where once it held no judgmental value. Certainly, many of today's pundits would appreciate the irony of that semantic shift.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “punditry”

 

• Monday morning buffet

  
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  It’s the start of a new week.  You need to eat. If this is the kind of stuff I’m missing, I could get used to the AJ-C ‘s new paywall real fast. When I say it’s not easy being a mid-major, this is what I’m talking about. Todd Grantham’s not worried about his young safeties.  We’ll see if he ...
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• Benghazi: Darryl Issa’s Last Outpost on the GOP Anti-Woman Frontier

  
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  Perhaps the only thing more angst-worthy for the white power structure that operates the Republican Party than a black man in the White House, and a tide of upwardly-mobile Latinos moving ever Leftward, is the impending feminist political tidal wave in the form of one Hilary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, beyond her ...
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• Oh, Niall....

  
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  Over the weekend Niall Ferguson got himself into intellectual hot water over an off-the-cuff response to a question about Keynes in which he suggested that Keynes didnt value the future too much because he was gay, had no heirs, and therefore didnt care about future generations. Now, Keyness writings here and ...
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• The Benghazi Boogaloo

  
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  Yep, its dancing time again for the Democrats, so they trot out the Boogaloo, and we have been treated to a full day of it on the telly. I dont want to burst any bubbles here, but if there is a single conservative who doesnt know the truth about Benghazi by now, its because that right-thinking person just got off...
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• Niall Ferguson’s history with Keynes

  
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  Brad DeLong has found a 1995 article by Niall Ferguson which pretty much puts the lie to Ferguson’s claim about his take on John Maynard Keynes. Here’s what Ferguson now says: My disagreements with Keynes’s economic philosophy have never had anything to do with his sexual orientation. It is simply false ...
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• Hitting the Niall on the head

  
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  I dont often feel like visiting physical violence against someone, but Niall Ferguson deserves to be hit upside his head for his bizarre speech at some investment conference. Keynes economic philosophy, Ferguson reportedly suggested, was the result of Keynes not caring about future generations. Keynes didnt ...
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• Oh why cant we have leaderly leadership

  
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  Jon Favreau is tired of hearing the whinging about why wont Obama lead the pack of GOP lunatics to sanity. Worth a read in full but heres the most important point that our insidery inside media doesnt seem to ever get to: Today, a minority of senators can kill bipartisan legislation that is supported by a majority ...
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• What is presidential leadership?

  
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  Since gun regulation failed the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, some pundits have trotted out the "failure of presidential leadership" meme. See Maureen Dowd , Ron Fournier , Dana Milbank , or Peggy Noonan  for example. To most political scientists -- hell, to most people whove taken an advanced poli sci course ...
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• Shorter Rush Limbaugh

  
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  Shorter Rush Limbaugh: "Why arent people tolerant about bigotry?  Huh?   Huh?!? " Actual Rush Limbaugh : LIMBAUGH: Folks, I grew up in a family where people’s sexual orientation, preferences, whatever, weren’t even discussed. Why can’t everybody just put your sexual preferences on Facebook and call it a ...
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