Comments on: America’s Next Great Pundit? A Middle-Aged White Guy From Ohio

By: megaread

megaread — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:06:00 +0000

I entered too. Didn’t make the cut. Actually, the white guy is from DC, but plays up like he’s from Ohio. The muslim girl is from Toledo, Ohio. Go figure they’d pick a local over a real midwesterner.

By: Magister

Magister — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:52:26 +0000

@CRZ: If it makes you feel any better, the bio link for both finalists say they currently live in DC, so maybe cost-cutting factored into the race.

By: CRZ

CRZ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:10:41 +0000

I entered, but didn't make the cut. I really wanted to at least make the final cut just to stick it to Mediaite that I knew what I was saying when I said any idiot can be a pundit, but so much for my clever plans. M 1, CRZ 0. They exists. I kinda thought I didn't make it BECAUSE I was a late-30s white male, so now I don't know *what* to believe. I tried to craft my entry so that it would appear too liberal to conservative readers, and vice versa. I may have fallen prey to their distaste for the word "anniversary" in entries, which they seemed to say was a mark of lazy punditry. More likely, I'm just not really as clever as I think I am. Gasp! (Here's my entry, if you're bored.) "I" count for this comment (including that one to prevent bad luck): 14

By: Magister

Magister — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:45:25 +0000

I thought about entering this contest, but the lag time between the actual writing and the contest end meant that you needed to avoid being overly topical. Then I got distracted with other things and by the time I thought about it again, the contest had ended.

Though, unfortunately, I also seem to fit their columnist demographic.