This is an old revision of this page, as edited by John Bahrain (talk | contribs) at 19:06, 5 August 2008 (it was about a misquote, not calling Barack Obama presumptuous.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 19:06, 5 August 2008 by John Bahrain (talk | contribs) (it was about a misquote, not calling Barack Obama presumptuous.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April, 1968) is a political reporter for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones.
Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the US Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."
As a reporter for The Washington Post, Milbank writes "Washington Sketch", an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal.
Milbank is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush--Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail. A new book, Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government, was published by Random House in January 2008.
Milbank was criticized for a July 2008 article that misquoted Barack Obama and called him "presumptuous" and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann stated that Milbank would not be allowed back onto the program unless he wrote a complete retraction.
References
- Lloyd Grove, "Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush", New York Daily News, March 4, 2004
- Deborah Mitchell, "A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good", New York Daily News, January 28, 2001
- "Kerry versus Bush: Eight is Enough", The Hotline, March 4, 2004.
- Christopher Cooper, "Bloggers Parse Pool Reportage On Bush Doings", The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2005
- Bryan Keefer, "Dana Milbank on Covering the White House and Nicknames We Can't Publish", Columbia Journalism Review
- Homo Politicus by Dana Milbank - Books - Random House
- Jason Linkins, Huffington Post, July 30, 2008
- 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, August 4
External links
 | This article about an American journalist born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |