{"id":3302,"date":"2010-11-24T22:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2010-11-25T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T08:06:30","slug":"salons-war-room-the-thirty-worst-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3302","title":{"rendered":"Salon’s War Room: The Thirty Worst Pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with all “Best\/Worst Of…”<\/em> lists, you can argue over names that were included, left off, or ranked incorrectly. But all in all, this is a pretty good list from Salon.com:<\/p>\n

About The Hack Thirty<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re listing the worst columnists and cable news commentators America has to offer. Think of this as our all-star team — of the most predictable, dishonest and just plain stupid pundits in the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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1. Richard Cohen
\n2. Mark Halperin
\n3. Thomas Friedman
\n4. David Broder
\n5. Marty Peretz
\n6. Marc Thiessen
\n7. Jonah Goldberg
\n8. Maureen Dowd
\n9. Laura Ingraham
\n10. Peggy Noonan<\/td>\n		11. George Will
\n12. John Fund
\n13. Roger Simon
\n14. David Ignatius
\n15. Mort Zuckerman
\n16. Michael Barone
\n17. Bill Kristol
\n18. Tina Brown
\n19. Joe Klein
\n20. Howard Fineman<\/td>\n		21. S.E. Cupp
\n22. Tucker Carlson
\n23. Howard Kurtz
\n24. Dana Milbank
\n25. Mickey Kaus
\n26. Jeffrey Goldberg
\n27. Pat Caddell
\n28. Andrew Malcolm
\n29. Matt Bai
\n30. David Brooks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Some of my additions would be Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley, Alex Castellanos, Bernie Goldberg, Stephen Moore, Charles Krauthammer, Dick Morris, Juan Williams, Judith Miller, and Ann Coulter. I’m sure there are more I’ve mentally blocked. Feel free to submit your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with all “Best\/Worst Of…” lists, you can argue over names that were included, left off, or ranked incorrectly. But all in all, this is a pretty good list from Salon.com: About The Hack Thirty We’re listing the worst columnists and cable news commentators America has to offer. Think of this as our all-star team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-Rg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4379,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4379","url_meta":{"origin":3302,"position":0},"title":"CONFIRMED: Right-Wingers Mostly Wrong","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/3\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The pundit class in American media has long been deservedly regarded with disdain. 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