After debate commentary is the purest evidence that the people who are paid the most and pretend to be the most sophisticated of politics understanders have skills and interests which should lead them to write B-List movie reviews for their neighborhood circular, which they would also be very bad at.
That these theater critics are often packaged as - and seem to believe that they are - just neutral observers, referees calling balls and strikes and pinocchios, makes it more maddening.