Washington Post political columnist Dana Millbank today offers a funny look at his many gaffes throughout 2011 as he tried to predict the fate of various political players.
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Here’s a little taste of his column:
“Pundits say the darndest things on television.
“Take, for example, the genius who said in January that ‘the president has a fairly easy’ reelection ahead of him. Or the guy who said in June that Newt Gingrich was ‘finished, whether he knows he is or not.’ How about the talking head who said in July that House Speaker John Boehner had suffered a ‘mortal wound’ at the hands of fellow Republicans? Or the one who predicted in August that Rick Perry would ‘hold his own’ in the presidential debates?
“Take, for example, the genius who said in January that ‘the president has a fairly easy’ reelection ahead of him. Or the guy who said in June that Newt Gingrich was ‘finished, whether he knows he is or not.’ How about the talking head who said in July that House Speaker John Boehner had suffered a ‘mortal wound’ at the hands of fellow Republicans? Or the one who predicted in August that Rick Perry would ‘hold his own’ in the presidential debates?
“One can only pity the commentator who pronounced Michele Bachmann ‘formidable’ in August, just before her campaign withered, or the one who forecast a months-long ‘donnybrook’ between Mitt Romney and the now-irrelevant Perry.
“The pundit in each of these cases was, alas, the poor schnook whose byline appears above this column.”
You can read the entire piece here.
