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“”The demagogue is one who preaches doctrine he knows to be untrue to people he knows to be idiots.
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| —H.L. Mencken |
Pundits are people who, while not having official roles in government, offer their opinions on public policy. Some are well-read, educated, and sane. Others are screaming banshees and/or clueless idiots. Some are just ideologues.
Their employment is varied, ranging from think tanks to mainstream media outlets to academia. Pundits serve as an outside source of ideas for officials, and also tend to try to influence public opinion.
At their best, they present well-reasoned arguments for given courses of public policy. At their worst, they just rile up the uninformed to shout slogans.
Some notable political pundits
Wingnut
- Keith Ablow
- Glenn Beck
- Andrew Breitbart
- Pat Buchanan
- Tucker Carlson
- Ann Coulter
- Distort D'Newsa
- Ross Douthat
- Matt Drudge
- Jonah Goldberg
- Sean Hannity
- Laura Ingraham
- Alex Jones
- Tomi Lahren
- Rush Limbaugh
- Richard Littlejohn
- Michelle Malkin
- Megan McArdle
- Gavin McInnes
- Sarah Palin
- Melanie Phillips
- Dennis Prager
- Candace Owens
- Pat Robertson
- Karl Rove
- Ben Shapiro
- Ben Stein
- Taki
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Angry
- L. Brent Bozell
- Lou Dobbs
- Pamela Geller
- Megyn Kelly
- Peter Hitchens
- Bill O'Reilly
- Keith Olbermann
- Cenk Uygur
Left/right of reason
- Noam Chomsky
- Stephen Colbert
- Glenn Greenwald
- Paul Krugman
- Kyle Kulinski
- Rachel Maddow
- John Oliver
- Nate Silver
- Jon Stewart
- Andrew Sullivan
- Matt Taibbi
- Larry Wilmore
Wingnuts-in-waiting
The dubious
- David Brooks
- Alan Colmes
- S. E. Cupp
- Thomas Friedman
- David Frum
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- Jesse Jackson
- William Kristol
- Bill Maher
- Megan McArdle
- Geraldo Rivera
- Dave Rubin
- Joe Scarborough