"And the erstwhile foreign pundits will soon realise that it is not 'game over for Mugabe' but a new game altogether, not only for Zimbabwe and its neighbours, but for Africa".
Some political pundits hope some of the suspects will be bold enough to link the president to the public looting.
There are serious inconsistencies in his denial – and we'll get to them soon – but it was not the president's suspiciously narrow answer that was criticised by many pundits.
One of the main complaints was the level of importance given to the opinion polls - many viewers thought voter turnout was low because the pundits' forecasts made voting seem irrelevant.
He romped home in first place in the first round of the presidential election on April 4. In the second round on April 17, however, the Slovaks appeared to realise what was at stake, and confounded the pundits and polls by again turning their back on Meciar and giving the presidency to his former righthand man, Ivan Gasparovic.
In the political world, this was the week of the healthcare ruling: reporters hovered around the supreme court, pundits pundited, politicians "braced" for the ruling, "reeled" in its aftermath.
Pundits proclaiming that Welsh is a dead language often grew up before Welsh was re-embraced, and the language was so sidelined that Plaid Cymru MP Gwynfor Evans threatened to go on hunger strike unless a Welsh-language channel was provided.
Neither of these cuts were met with surprise and discontent; instead, many industry pundits welcomed them.
A memo signed jointly with his partner, Eric Spitz, said: "Pundits and local competitors who have closely followed our entry into Los Angeles will be quick to criticise our decision to launch a new newspaper and they will say that we failed.
Related: Lynton Crosby: the man who really won the election for the Tories The British prime minister, David Cameron, spent Friday evening reshaping his government after winning a sensational second five-year mandate for his Conservative party in a general election result that confounded pollsters and pundits – and shattered the centrist Liberal Democrats, his junior coalition partners since 2010.
Pundits need to lobby government for a more robust film funding strategy so that we can reclaim our confidence in the domestic market for the next few years and guarantee a prosperous future for homemade productions instead of relying heavily on international co-productions.
