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ARTICLE: "At Pundit School, Learning to Smile and Interrupt," by Ashley Parker, New York Times, 26 October 2008.
An actual school for would-be on-screen pundits and talking heads, here is where you learn to "carve [your ideology] into bite-size nuggets--preferably ones that end with a zinger" and "to avoid questions" you don't "like."
The article blames Tucker Carlson for blazing the trail, and follows the schooling of one Peter Freire, who at 26 has been a managing editor of "The American Spectator" for all of 9 months.
Well, hell, man! That's all the credentials you need to blow smoke out your ass on TV!
It's nice to know that all the IQ-reducing fare on news networks has its own pipeline. As for the young pundits who flock to this school, better to become famous before you achieve anything of value.
And keep those zingers coming!
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