The Secret Sauce Behind a Parody Pundit's Predictive Powers
"This is my life. This is who I am. I am Carl Allison Diggler, and I called it again."
If everything this election cycle is parody–and some days it does feel as if sweeping generalizations like that are entirely accurate–then some parody might, at its core, be truth.
Of course, to be effective, parody should be rooted in truth, but we’re talking about parody with preternatural oracle-like abilities.
Here is Carl Allison Diggler, a pundit that is the creation of two Cafe.com writers, Felix Biederman and Virgil Texas, describing his impressive showing in the predictions horse race over the Super Tuesday elections horse race:
I called the winners of 20 out of 22 Super Tuesday contests (pending the GOP result in Alaska) and literally got every result right on the Democratic side — better than any of my colleagues, be they Bloomberg quants, clean-cut Politico analysts, or the face of dishonesty and cowardice, 538’s Nate Silver.
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