premise: Unable to agree on why Wolf should be embarrassing, pundits have fallen back on the implication that she must be embarrassing, since Gore has been employing her secretly, funneling her payments through other consulting firms, and conspiring to conceal her from the press.
hypothesis: Pundits have reasoned an implication that Wolf must be embarrassing because of Gore secretly employing her, funneling her payments and conspiring to conceal her from the press.