1. David J Sirota was born on November 2,1975 and is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, a reader-supported investigative news outlet focused on exposing the negative influence of corporate corruption on American society.
59 Facts About David Sirota
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David Sirota twice worked for Bernie Sanders, both when Sanders was a member of the US House of Representatives and as part of Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.
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David Sirota was a staff member of the Center for American Progress, a liberal research and advocacy group.
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David Sirota has been a columnist for Guardian US, editor-at-large for American left publication Jacobin and senior investigations editor for The International Business Times.
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David Sirota has worked as television writer and radio host.
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David Sirota has written three books: Hostile Takeover, an exploration of corruption in the US political system, The Uprising, about ordinary citizens frustrations with the US government, and Back to Our Future, which explores how the politics and culture of the 1980s influenced the thinking of later generations.
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David Sirota is a native of Abington Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
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David Sirota is the eldest son of Rob Sirota, a retired physician, and Karen Sirota, the former president of a local synagogue.
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David Sirota was able to meet Barkley in 1986 and have his picture taken with him.
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David Sirota was a fan of the local Philadelphia news station WPVI-TV.
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When David Sirota was in the 8th grade, he shadowed local sportscaster Gary Papa for a day.
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David Sirota described his love of the local news station "as part of my journey into journalism".
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David Sirota met the future actor Bradley Cooper, who lived in the neighboring town of Jenkintown, when they both played on the 1985 East Abington Little League Baseball team.
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David Sirota attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University from 1994 to 1998, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science.
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David Sirota worked on his first political race during his senior year.
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In 1999, David Sirota served as Dwight Evans's deputy mayoral campaign manager in Philadelphia.
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David Sirota was let go for "overzealous behavior" related to the creation of a fake website containing damaging racial comments attributed to Evans' opponent John White Jr.
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David Sirota then became a fundraiser for Joe Hoeffel in his first successful campaign for the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district.
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From 1999 to 2001, David Sirota worked as press aide and spokesperson for Bernie Sanders, who was then serving as the US representative from Vermont.
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David Sirota has stated that working for Sanders was "completely transformative for me as a person".
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From 2003 to 2005, David Sirota worked at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research and advocacy group, where he was responsible for rapid response and media outreach.
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David Sirota was hired for the job by former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta.
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David Sirota was credited with having revealed that $87 billion for Iraq could have been used to erase huge state deficits at home, a fact that was repeated by Democrats nationwide.
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David Sirota served as a senior strategist for Brian Schweitzer's unsuccessful 2000 Senate campaign and successful 2004 gubernatorial campaign.
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In September 2006, David Sirota worked as a political consultant for Ned Lamont's US Senate campaign.
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In 2008, David Sirota was co-chair of the Progressive Legislative Action Network.
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David Sirota was a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future.
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In May 2005, while writing his own blog, David Sirota became a contributor to The Huffington Post.
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David Sirota was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show and makes guest appearances on The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NOW, Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNBC, and NPR.
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David Sirota is a senior editor at In These Times, a regular columnist for The Nation and the Intermountain Jewish News, and a past contributor to The American Prospect.
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David Sirota has been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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David Sirota was a contributor to OpenLeft, a now-defunct progressive political blog.
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David Sirota became a contributing writer for Salon in May 2011.
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From 2009 to 2012, David Sirota was the morning host at the Denver progressive talk station KKZN.
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David Sirota was initially filling in for Jay Marvin on his eponymous program; but Marvin was ultimately unable to return, and David Sirota became the permanent host in 2010.
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On July 16,2012, Sirota moved to sister station KHOW to co-host an afternoon drive program with former George W Bush administration FEMA director Michael D Brown, The Rundown with Sirota and Brown.
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In March 2017, David Sirota joined The Young Turks online broadcast network as a contributor, providing periodic investigative reports.
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In early 2018, after four years of reporting for the International Business Times as senior editor of investigations, David Sirota left that publication.
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David Sirota joined the Sanders campaign after fourteen years working as a journalist.
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David Sirota knows exactly what he wants to say and exactly how he wants to say it.
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In 2022, David Sirota received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for conceiving the story for Netflix's Don't Look Up alongside co-writer and director Adam McKay.
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David Sirota responded to Harshaw's review in a letter to the editor.
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David Sirota denied his book was critical of mainstream Democrats but aimed squarely at "exposing Republican hypocrisy".
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David Sirota described his position as a "centrist exploration of the corruption of the entire system" that "isn't the fault of just one party or another".
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David Sirota was described as having "pulled an end-run around the press galleries".
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David Sirota denied he got "special access" and that such a claim was "just bizarre".
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David Sirota made speeches about his book at prestigious venues such as Hofstra University.
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David Sirota argues that the combination of Reagan, the "candidate of nostalgia"; hypermilitarist movies that re-demonized communism; and sophisticated marketing campaigns glorifying the cult of the individual led to our current culture's narcissism and obsessive pursuit of wealth and celebrity.
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David Sirota supported John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic party primaries.
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David Sirota has criticized the Democratic Leadership Council and other Democrats, who he claims have "sold out" to corporate interests and has argued that the term "centrist" is a misnomer in that these politicians are out of touch with public opinion.
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David Sirota is an opponent of free trade policies, a supporter of fair trade, and an advocate of workers' rights and organized labor.
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David Sirota supported Sherrod Brown over Paul Hackett for the 2006 Senate election in Ohio and criticized Hackett's claims that he was "forced out" of the race by party elders as disingenuous.
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David Sirota has been a strong supporter of the economic stimulus efforts of the Obama administration.
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David Sirota was criticized by Fox News hosts and commentators Mark Steyn, Bill O'Reilly, Greg Gutfeld, and Robert Spencer in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing for an article he wrote for Salon entitled "Let's Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American".
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David Sirota wrote in 2013 that Chavez was "no saint" but that his socialist and redistributionist policies had led to Venezuela's GDP more than doubling and reduced poverty to the third-lowest level in South America.
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In 2018, David Sirota argued immediate action must be taken against the influence and power of oil and gas corporations to fight climate change, and Democrats must choose a side.
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In January 2018, Emily David Sirota announced her candidacy for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, promising a "bold, progressive agenda".
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David Sirota has lived in various cities around the country including Philadelphia, Chicago, San Diego, Washington, DC, Helena, and Denver.
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Sirota's character in the series is named "David Sirota", and is portrayed by the actor Sam Kindseth.