a very important quality in a big media company pundit is not only being completely full of shit all the damn time but also not caring one bit that everyone who can count to ten without using their fingers understands you to be completely full of shit all the damn time.
Oddly enough, this makes me think of an interview of MoDo, of all people, that I once came across.
I stopped reading her after HW was out of office, for context.
That said, she spoke quite movingly about (1) being warned by friends that she would lose all of her friends, (1/2)
if you behave like this, the people who run media companies like the New York Times will insist you are an "intellectual" or a "thinker." If you *notice* that people behave like this, the people who run those companies will insist you are a partisan.