pundit

thumb|275x275px|Joe Scarborough and [[Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe are examples of political pundits.]]

A pundit or pundette is a person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media. They are often conservative. The term was coined in the 1990s to describe anti-Bill Clinton commentators who came to prominence on cable TV during the Lewinsky scandal.