A good point, Jeff, at least as it applies to policy analysts at JLF and other free-market think tanks.

I’m sure you know that not all think tanks and policy analysts fit your multifaceted description, and I admit I’m at a loss to find the proper job description to go with the others ? you know, the shriekers, the profanity-spewers, the angry ad hominem howlers.

I suppose “insult comic” would be close, if the job description centered on their unwitting provision of comedy, where the one making the insult is also the butt of the joke. But it doesn’t make the top 200 either way.