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Stupid Investor Tricks

Dan Solin | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Investments, Investing, Business, Stock Market, Economy, Pundits, Economic Crisis, Business News

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying investors are stupid. I'm saying they follow the advice of people who pay no attention to the data. As a consequence, they engage in "stupid investor tricks."

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Pundits, Get Used to It, Obama's Ahead of the Curve

David Latt | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Pundits, David Brooks, Barack Obama, President Obama, Kremlinologists, Barack Obama Transition, Media News

Even though the pundits chatter like their Kremlinologist brethren decades ago, they will just have to wait until President Obama works things out.

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Top Ten lists of Top Ten things Obama Should Do on Day 1

Jack Hidary | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Transition Team, Punditocracy, First 100 Days, Pundits, Obama First 100 Days, Obama 2008, Meet the Press, Obama Transition, Obama, 100 Days, Politics News

According to recent reports, Barak Obama has now read more than 142 lists of "Ten things Obama should do on Day 1" from such varied sources as Time a...

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Obama, Bill Clinton and the Media "Center"

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.

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Crime of the Century

Steven Weber | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, George Bush, Npr, Bush Administration, Bailout, America, Pundits, George W. Bush, Uncle Sam, Left Right and Center, Barack Obama, Bushco, Politics News

Has anything BushCo's ever done benefitted the people or the country? Just admit it: we've been robbed, beaten and stabbed. Those are just the facts, Detective Obama.

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Prediction Fiction

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Delphic Oracle, Bill Kristol, LA Weekly, Dick Morris, Politics, Obama, Pundits, Soctrates, Media News

This election season reached new heights in Oracular nonsense, kick-started by Dick Morris' 2005 volume "Condi vs. Hillary."

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Whoops: NONE of Top Campaign Bloggers at Newspapers Predicted Obama Win

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

Just for fun, one year ago this week, my magazine E&P decided to have some fun and ask top campaign bloggers at the leading newspapers to forecast what was likely to happen in 2008.

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"This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!"

Heather Frank | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Joseph McCarthy, Pundits, Political Satire, Election, Movies, 2008 Presidential Election, Celebrities, Entertainment News

In a delightfully subversive programming decision, Turner Classic Movies is showing A Face in the Crowd tonight at 8pm, just days before the election.

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If You Want to Play the Game, You Better Know the Rules

Dan Solin | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Investments, Investing, Trust, Stocks, Economy, Pundits, Financial Crisis, Cable News, Jim Cramer, Business News

In times of extreme market volatility, investors are tempted to rely financial pundits. It is important to realize that their advice is flawed and conflicted.

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Sitting on Polls

Sean Hartofilis | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pollsters, Polls, Politics, News Media, Barack Obama, John McCain, Pundits, Politics News

Stop polling! Or, at least, stop telling us about the polls. Pundits (where do they all go, by the way, after the election?) should be debating the issues, not predicting the outcome.

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The Unmarried Electorate: 60% Obama, 33% McCain

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

But where is the love? When was the last time you heard about this demographic juggernaut on Morning Joe? Where are the network stories or the feature articles in newspapers or magazines?

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On Accountability

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Prognosticators, Goldman Sachs, Pundits, Arjun Murti, Bs Artists, Business News

How about we lobby for a new division within the Government Accountability Office, responsible for the oversight and public evaluation of analysts, pundits and opinion jockeys of all sorts?

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The Seven Biggest Conventional Wisdom Blunders Of The 2008 Election

Salon | Mike Madden and Walter Shapiro | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Presidential Race Conventional Widsom, Conventional Wisdom, TV Talking Heads, Pundits, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News

This has been a campaign season when the conventional wisdom has fared about as well as Bob Barr's prospects for moving into the Oval Office. During ...

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The Whiny Republican Support Group

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Conservative, Gop, Fox News, Steve Doocy, Whiners, Michael Reagan, Republicans, Pundits, 2008 Election, Media News

I told Gallagher that the fringe lockstep conservative types should consider organizing a support group for chronically whiny conservative pundits.

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Why Don't Some Conservative Pundits Write What They Really Think About Sarah Palin?

Eric Deggans | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media

Read More: David Brooks, Media, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Peggy Noonan, Pundits, John McCain, Media News

Why are average voters better at piercing Palin's hypocrisy than pundits who get paid to do so everyday?

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The Palin Trap: Meta Symbol of American Womanhood is a Dangerous Distraction

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Judy Blume, Sarah Palin, Mom Voters, Talking Heads, Women Voters, Pundits, Women Bloggers, Sarah Palin Mom, Momocrats, Working Moms, Politics News

Palin as a mom symbol is important to discuss, but there's too much at stake to get lost again in the gender wars, no matter how validating it feels to have our opinions asked.

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It's About Knowledge, Not Experience

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, President, Alaska, John McCain, Pundits, War, George W. Bush, 2008 Election, Mccain, Obama, Election, Experience, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy, Bush, Professor, Palin, Change, Judgment, Constitutional Law, Nathan Gonzalez, Wasilla, Politics News

Obama understands that we live in a complicated, nuanced world, one in which cowboy-style "straight talk" does little but earn us dismissive laughs from friends and enemies overseas.

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What Hillary Clinton's Convention Speech Needs To Accomplish

Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pundits Hillary Clinton Convention Speech, Pundits Hillary Clinton, Pundits, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Convention Speech, Democratic Convention, Politics News

With Democrats hoping that Hillary Clinton's speech tonight at the Democratic Convention will bring closure to the bruised feelings after a long prima...

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What Americans Want: An Agenda a Majority Agrees On

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Sirota, American Agenda, Economy, David Korten, Pundits, Thanksgiving, War, Jobs, Platform, Agenda, Purple States, Working Families Party, Jon Stewart, Fox News, Climate Change, Health Care, Minutemen, Hunter, Politics News

You've probably been there. It's a family gathering, maybe Thanksgiving or a wedding, and someone starts a political conversation that is as ill-infor...

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Spokespundits: From Campaign Insiders To Talking Heads

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Todd Harris, Kevin Madden, Pundits, Media News

Minutes before he was to appear on "Hardball," Todd Harris was handed a wire report quoting John McCain as saying that eliminating America's dependenc...

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The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell

Ari Melber | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Mcjoan, Greg Mitchell, Samantha Power, Ari Melber, Punditocracy, Netroots Nation, Pentagon Pundits, Pundits, War Coveevrage, Media Reform, Msm, Media, Iraq, Pentagon Propaganda, Mark Danner, War Pundits, Media News

By relying too heavily on government sources from one party, most pre-Iraq war coverage misstated the threat and drastically underplayed opposition to the war among experts, political elites, and the general public.

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Reaching for the Elusive "Real" in "Real Change"

David Sirota | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Pundits, Media, The Uprising, Pundits, Politics News

My time in professional politics and journalism leads me to think that conceit, ambition, arrogance and greed have been exacerbated by television, the 24 hour news, starf*cker-ism, and the rise of the Internet.

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McClellan and His Media Collaborators

Jeff Cohen | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Msnbc, War Coverage, George Bush, Pundits, Katie Couric, Bush Iraq, Iraq Coverage, Media News

Given how TV networks danced to the White House tune in the first years of W's reign, it's fitting that it took the words of a longtime Bush insider to force their self-examination over Iraq.

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Hillary's Popular Vote Notion only 'Popular' with the Punditocracy

Donald Sutherland | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton Popular Vote, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Pundits, Cnn, Popular Vote, Politics News

Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition?

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The Right Never Dies

Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservatism, Conservatives, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Pundits, Politics News

Now that Obama has the nomination all but locked up, and is drawing Springsteen-sized crowds, liberal pundits are asking the age-old question: Is conservatism dead?

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