1. Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010.
17 Facts About Mickey Kaus
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Mickey Kaus's brother, Stephen Kaus, is a California Superior Court judge and occasional commentator on The Huffington Post.
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Mickey Kaus's father was born in Vienna, Austria, and his mother was born in Germany and raised in England.
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Mickey Kaus attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School but has never practiced law.
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Mickey Kaus later posted about a 1981 Today Show appearance where Schwarzenegger claimed that he deliberately damaged chimneys in order to boost demand for his bricklaying business, which was another scoop.
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In 2007, Mickey Kaus reported from an anonymous source that candidate John Edwards was having an affair with documentarian Rielle Hunter.
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Edwards and Hunter both publicly denied this, and Mickey Kaus was widely criticized for what amounted to an assumption of guilt.
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The blog commented on the automotive industry and Mickey Kaus irregularly filed automotive-centric "Gearbox" columns on Slate.
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Mickey Kaus was fired from Newsweek and later blogged at The Daily Caller.
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In March 2015, Mickey Kaus quit The Daily Caller after its editor, Tucker Carlson refused to run a column by Mickey Kaus that was critical of Fox News coverage of the immigration policy debate.
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Mickey Kaus was an influential proponent of welfare reform in the 1980s, and is a fierce critic of both labor unions and low-skilled immigration.
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Mickey Kaus has been criticized for his persistent defense of his friend Ann Coulter from many liberal critics.
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Mickey Kaus called the election "perverse" because he saw a Democratic victory as not impeding George W Bush's Iraq policy but helping his immigration policy.
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Nevertheless, Mickey Kaus declared he still voted for Democrat Jane Harman.
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In 2020, he stated that he had voted for Trump in 2016, but would prefer a more electable Trumpist [5] Mickey Kaus is generally moderate on foreign policy.
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In 2020, Mickey Kaus became a weekly guest on Wright's show.
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Mickey Kaus ran as a "Common Sense Democrat," stating that he did not expect to win, but hoped to raise issues.