David Corn was born on February 20,1959 and is an American political journalist and author.
16 Facts About David Corn
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David Corn is the Washington, DC bureau chief for Mother Jones and is best known as a cable television commentator.
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David Corn was raised in a Jewish family in White Plains, New York.
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David Corn graduated from White Plains High School in 1977.
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David Corn attended Brown University, where he majored in history and worked for The Brown Daily Herald.
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David Corn was the Washington editor for The Nation and has appeared regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and BloggingHeads.
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David Corn appeared on FOX News more than sixty times, according to a tally by Politifact.
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In February 2013, David Corn was given the 2012 George Polk Award in journalism in the category of political reporting for his posting of a video and reporting of the "47 percent story," Republican nominee Mitt Romney's videoed meeting with donors during the 2012 presidential campaign.
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David Corn contributed a short story to Unusual Suspects, a paperback collection of original crime stories.
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David Corn's novel, Deep Background, is a conspiracy thriller about the assassination of a US president at a White House press conference and the ensuing investigation.
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Reviews praised David Corn's mastery of the political atmosphere and characters, although they split on whether this was a virtue or, coming towards the conclusion of Bill Clinton's term in office, already all-too-familiar territory.
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In particular, David Corn criticized many of the arguments offered to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and he challenged The New York Times columnist William Safire for claiming links between Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
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In Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, co-written by Michael Isikoff of Newsweek and David Corn, they analyzed the Bush administration's drive toward the invasion.
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David Corn was personally involved in the early coverage of the controversy over leaks to the media of the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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David Corn raised the possibility that the leak of her identity violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act ; however, prosecutors found no evidence that those government officials who leaked her name knew she was a covert agent, and no official was ultimately charged with violating the IIPA.
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David Corn objected to the negative portrayal of himself in Hubris, the book in part about the matter by Corn and Isikoff.