Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...whom treated politics as war and were ready to "go to the mattresses" at the drop of a subpoena. Adieu, gentlemen! And adieu, as well, to Vernon Jordan, the dapper consigliere; Albright and Reno, female bodyguards for the Little Rock Don; and George Stephanopoulos, lackey-turned-traitor-turned-pundit, who played Fredo to Clinton's Michael Corleone, and broke his brother's heart...
...thousands of people who have yet to vote for or against this person, I will not name. "This is going to be a very tense time," said a CNN reporter at the Mr./Ms. Senate Candidate HQ. The report was followed by a certain high-profile partisan pundit, married to another certain high-profile partisan pundit, giving a litany of excuses why Mr./Ms. Contender might have done better. Although - oh, by the way - "It's not over...
...another lesson in the vanishing line between the genuine and the artificial, the amateur and the pundit. And that was underscored in the news networks' post-debate "town meetings" and "focus groups," where the undecideds proved they could out-commentate the commentators. With disturbing professionalism, they dissected the candidates' performances and body language like bloodless insiders. "[Gore] seemed more genuine in his answers," said one - not "was," but "seemed...
...team shoved him back into the race by making him as human as was humanly possible: one long kiss, a bright blond daughter, a speech flavored more by its conviction than its condescension. But even Gore strategist Carter Eskew thinks the whole "likability" question is "another sort of pundit myth," comparable to the charge that Bush doesn't have the "gravitas" to be President. "The question is, What is decisive in people's vote?" Eskew says. "That is a harder question, and if I had the answer to that, we could all go home...
...between Al Gore and the parody of Al Gore on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend. Gore certainly made the SNL Gore disappear last night, but he may have made himself disappear in the process. And sure enough, this time around, he lost the instant audience polls and the pundit consensus after the debate. Given the aftermath of the debate he "won," of course, that may have been precisely the strategy. The question, to be fought out in the following days of on-air punditry and polling: can Al Gore win for losing...