Jeffrey Lord was born on July 25,1951 and is an American author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania, who served as an associate political director in the administration of former US President Ronald Reagan.
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Jeffrey Lord subsequently became a highly visible political commentator for CNN and other media outlets.
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Jeffrey Lord was fired from CNN in 2017 after posting a Nazi salute on Twitter to mock Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America.
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Jeffrey Lord earned a degree from Franklin and Marshall College.
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Jeffrey Lord first worked as a press aide in the Pennsylvania State Senate.
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Jeffrey Lord worked for Pennsylvania congressman Bud Shuster as legislative director and press secretary and for US senator H John Heinz III as executive assistant.
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Later, Jeffrey Lord worked as chief of staff to Drew Lewis, for part of the time that Lewis was a co-chairman of Pennsylvania for the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign.
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Jeffrey Lord has worked as a political commentator, contributing material to CNN, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, National Review Online, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
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Jeffrey Lord has appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs.
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Jeffrey Lord is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of D Brooks Smith to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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In July 2010, after Shirley Sherrod stated that one of her relatives had been lynched in the 1940s, Jeffrey Lord wrote an article in The American Spectator pointing out the man in question had actually been beaten to death by police officers.
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Jeffrey Lord faced substantial criticism as a result, including criticism from other contributors to American Spectator.
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Jeffrey Lord accused those who raised these worries of dividing Americans by race.
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Jeffrey Lord responded that "history matters" and claimed that Democrats continue to divide citizens by race today and that doing so is "morally wrong".