1. Jonathan T Capehart was born on July 2,1967 and is an American journalist and liberal television commentator.
19 Facts About Jonathan Capehart
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Jonathan Capehart worked for the New York Daily News, serving as a member of its editorial board from 1993 to 2000.
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At the time of his hiring, Jonathan Capehart was the youngest-ever member of the newspaper's editorial board.
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Jonathan Capehart left the Daily News in 2000 to work at Bloomberg News.
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Jonathan Capehart advised and wrote speeches for Michael Bloomberg during his 2001 run for New York City mayor.
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Jonathan Capehart returned to the New York Daily News in 2002, serving as deputy editor of the editorial page until 2004.
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Jonathan Capehart joined the staff of The Washington Post as a journalist and member of its editorial board in 2007.
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Jonathan Capehart continues in that capacity and is a contributing commentator for MSNBC.
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Jonathan Capehart began guest hosting the WNYC radio show Midday on WNYC in 2018.
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Jonathan Capehart hosted the premiere episode of The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC on December 13,2020.
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Jonathan Capehart is the fill-in host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday edition.
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Jonathan Capehart replaced Mark Shields in the Friday political commentary segment on the PBS NewsHour starting in January 2021.
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On March 30,2022, Jonathan Capehart became an associate editor of The Washington Post.
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In February 2016, Jonathan Capehart published a false allegation about Senator Bernie Sanders, who was well known for his activism in civil rights causes.
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Jonathan Capehart alleged that Sanders and his campaign had been misrepresenting a photograph that shows Sanders speaking at a civil rights sit-in at the University of Chicago in 1962.
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Jonathan Capehart wrote that the Sanders campaign should "stop physically placing him where he existed only in spirit," arguing that the photo showed an activist named Rappaport, rather than Sanders, and implying that Sanders was not even at the event.
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Rather than recanting his allegation, Jonathan Capehart wrote a follow-up article titled, "Bernie Sanders and the Clash of Memory," in which Jonathan Capehart acknowledged Lyon's photographic evidence but said that a friend of Rappaport and a woman who was married to Rappaport for 5 years had both identified the man in the photo as Rappaport.
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In May 2016, Jonathan Capehart became engaged to his boyfriend of over five years, Nick Schmit, who was the assistant chief of protocol at the US State Department.
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Jonathan Capehart was a key contributor to a New York Daily News staff entry that received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1999.