Jon Stewart ripped pundits in general for their lack of accountability, but he saved some special scorn for Dick Morris. Stewart called Morris the, ‘king of wrong mountain.’
Here is the video:
Stewart was mocking the fact that cable and network news pundits have been all over the map with their presidential election predictions, when he came to Dick Morris who he called, “king of wrong mountain.” Stewart took Morris to task for his prediction that he would have to go through a day of reckoning if his prediction that Romney will win by 5 points, and get over 300 electoral votes was wrong. The Daily Show host said, “No, you won’t, and they won’t. Because you’re pundits, you live in a reckoning-free zone. One thing we learned is that punditry is like musical chairs. The only difference is, in musical chairs, when the music stops, nobody ever moves the chair. They just keep adding more chairs.”
Dick Morris has been labeled the world’s worst political pundit, because he is so consistently and utterly wrong. If Dick Morris predicts an election, the odds are good that the exact opposite will happen. (This is very good news for President Obama, because Dick Morris has been predicting a Romney landslide.) According to Morris, the election is already over. Contrary to the actual polling, he claimed that Obama has already lost Florida, Virginia, and Colorado. It should be noted that the polling consensus is that the president leads Virginia and Colorado, while Florida is a dead heat.
Morris has become the anti-Nate Silver. When the numbers and statistics look depressing for Republicans, they can always count on Dick Morris to cheer them up with predictions and numbers that appear to have absolutely no basis in reality. In this respect, Morris is the perfect right wing counter to Silver’s model. Republicans have already rejected the science and math that Silver has based his model on, and have substituted the absurd predictions of Dick Morris. The Dick Morris model is to say anything that the right wants to hear. As long as the check clears, Dick Morris will say whatever you want.
If pundits were judged based on their record of accuracy, Dick Morris would have been fired long ago. But Morris isn’t really a pundit, he is like many other snakeoil salesmen who populate conservative media. Morris figured that there is a damn lucrative living to be made by telling the Fox News crowd exactly what they want to hear. Morris doesn’t care if he is right or wrong. For him, it’s all about telling the paying customer what they want to hear.
Jon Stewart was correct. Pundits should be held accountable, but even better there should be less punditry on the news. Instead of wasting 10-20 minutes an hour talking to someone who is guessing about what might happen, they could actually be reporting the news. The odds of this happening are small, because news has been deemed too boring to generate profit. What we are left with are clowns like Dick Morris who will keep the partisan folks at home feeling good while they line their pockets based on their ability to make bs taste like chocolate cake.
Dick Morris thinks Romney is going to win big, which means that Barack Obama is probably sitting pretty for reelection.
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Diane
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 9:57 am
You wonder what all the yahoo’s would be doing if not for Fox news?
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Marty Gav
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 2:20 pm
What else has Morris predicyed that was wrong? Love to hear some of that? And wasn’t he a big part of the Clinton political machine that got him elected both times, or is that all bs too? Thanks!
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Morris went on to become campaign manager of Bill Clinton’s successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President. His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election, when it was revealed that he had allowed a prostitute to listen in on conversations with the President.
He now is a harsh critic of the Clinton’s. Seems he is still embarassed
BTW, you should see Jon Stewart skewer this guy. Hilarious
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“Dick Morris: Dick Morris is maybe the wrongest pundit in Christendom. He’s got a lifetime “F” rating from PunditTracker, with seventeen live calls about the 2012 race that haven’t come in yet. (More on those in a minute.) Already this year, his predictions have been among the most laughable. Like Krauthammer, he predicted Trump would run for election. He also predicted that Mike Huckabee would run. Both wrong, but the latter pick was, perhaps, forgiveable. His take on the post-convention bounces? Well, he predicted a 5-6 percent bounce for Romney coming out of the Republican convention, and no bounce for Obama coming out of his. This was pretty much perfectly wrong.”
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edh
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
I notice you say Morris is the “worst pundit” not worst polling analyst. At your link, there is only one example of Morris interpreting actual poll results immediately prior to an election, rather than forecasting the future:
“calling for Republicans to win 80 new seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans would win a historic victory in 2010, but would only take 63 seats.”
What polling analyst was closer than Morris in predicting the actual Republican route of Democrats in 2010?
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
““Dick Morris: Dick Morris is maybe the wrongest pundit in Christendom. He’s got a lifetime “F” rating from PunditTracker, with seventeen live calls about the 2012 race that haven’t come in yet. (More on those in a minute.) Already this year, his predictions have been among the most laughable. Like Krauthammer, he predicted Trump would run for election. He also predicted that Mike Huckabee would run. Both wrong, but the latter pick was, perhaps, forgiveable. His take on the post-convention bounces? Well, he predicted a 5-6 percent bounce for Romney coming out of the Republican convention, and no bounce for Obama coming out of his. This was pretty much perfectly wrong.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/predictions-2012-election-season_n_2080956.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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scott
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
It’s often not so easy to have readily available proof that Jon Stewart is an idiot. This is too easy – but i hope those that place stock in this joke teller will recognize that his skills don’t go much beyond comedy.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
It’s OK, we understand how hard it is fun things are not going your way
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Carlos
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
It must be hard to stomach the truth. Jon Stewart put a funny spin on the B.S. the right spews. Like him or hate him Jon Stewart is a funny guy.
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edh
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Shiva,
That the polls did not show the convention “bounce” that Morris predicted isn’t proof he’s wrong. Polls measure the bounce. His whole point is the polls are wrong because of skewed methodology.
The only proof of whether Morris is right or wrong in reading polls is against the actual election results.
That’s why I noted the only example linked by this article comparing Morris’s reading of poll results against election outcome is the 2010 elections.
Again, my simple question is who provided a better reading of the 2010 polls than Morris?
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Who cares? Let’s face it, Dick Morris has not been right about anything since 2010. The subject at hand is now
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Titus Vorenus
Nov. 6th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Dick Morris was even wrong when it came to picking a mistress. That chick was SCARY!
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Gary Vaughn
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:49 am
Well you idiot, if Dick predicts same thin same way time after time after time, he has to get lucky that 1 time right? I mean a broken clock is right more times a day than any right wing prediction pundit.
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