Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Mr. Ricketts and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
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Wealth doesn't preclude stupid strategy, and the revelation that billionaire Joe Ricketts seriously entertained and possibly gave initial approval to a vile albeit strategically inane plan to dredge up old race-based attacks aga...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Honesty in punditry
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Today we have a little help in deconstructing the pundits.
This is Geoffrey Pullam, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and taking apart George Will for lying:
The domain of language already provides plentiful evidence...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Honesty in punditry
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Today we have a little help in deconstructing the pundits.
This is Geoffrey Pullam, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and taking apart George Will for lying:
The domain of language already provides plentiful evidence...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Are you in touch with your inner voter?
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NY Times editorial:
It clearly does not bother Speaker John Boehner that he pushed the United States to the brink of default last year. It does not matter that the deep spending cuts in the resolution he demanded to end that cri...
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Chasing a solution to systemic risk
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Joe Nocera in The New York Times thinks banking should be "more boring":
We know that JPMorgan’s chief investment office, which had orchestrated the debt purchases, decided to hedge the entire portfolio by selling credit defau...
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Marriage equality gets backed and shellacked
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Colbert I. King says the marriage equality isn't about what Obama said last week even though much of the media and almost everybody else has made it about him:
Think about it this way: If school desegregation amendments had been...
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Happy Mother’s Day
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First, President Obama's Mother's Day Proclamation:
Mothers raise children under an array of circumstances, and many work long hours inside and outside the home balancing myriad demands. Mothers are leaders and trailblazers in e...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Truth or consequences
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Eugene Robinson:
It seems clear that his position on gay marriage will cost Obama some support in what promises to be a tough battle for reelection. The crucial impact will be in the swing states. North Carolina, for example, is...
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Mitt Romney, bully.
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Carla Hall at The Los Angeles Times:
[A]ll of Romney’s actions make up the whole of his character. And in this case [bullying others as a student], whether he did it or didn’t do it or can’t remember, he should be, t...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Pride and courage
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Courage is articulating your personal convictions and evolution in a split country. Pride is what many of us feel today. Cowardice is the other guy, who can't stand up to his own followers. A sampling follows:
Frank Bruni:
Hoora...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Who’s ahead for November?
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Gallup:
Registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say Barack Obama, rather than Mitt Romney, is the more likable of the two presidential candidates. Obama's 60% to 31% advantage on this characteristic is the largest for ei...
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Negative narrative evolving on marriage equality and Obama
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It's been two days since Vice-President Biden did or did not endorse marriage equality (the White House has been aggressively walking back his statement). Since then, the narrative building around the issue isn't one that will m...
