pontificator

She began appearing on the network in 2017, having come to bookers’ attention through a job working for Douglas Schoen, a Democratic pollster and longtime cable-news pontificator himself.

I saw more than one pontificator position Cheney’s performance in the hearings as “Liz Cheney’s revenge on Donald Trump — and her own party,” to cite the specific framing by the New Yorker.

Instead, he tacked in the opposite direction — becoming a listener instead of a pontificator.

Neal Katyal, who was law clerk for Breyer and a former acting U.S. solicitor general, described the justice on Wednesday as a “listener instead of a pontificator.”

Has he spread himself too thin as an all-knowing pontificator?