found online by Raymond
From driftglass:
The fundamental problem with the pundit class is that they have absolutely no personal stake in anything they say. If they get one thing even marginally right, they wear it a Medal of Freedom until the end of their days. But when get something wrong? When they get many things wrong? When they get most things wrong — big things, life-and-death things — over and over again, year after year after year?
Then what happens?