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Dana Milbank Biography
Dana Milbank is an American author, and columnist for The Washington Post. He writes “Washington Sketch” for the Post, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal. He is also an author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush—Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail.
Dana Milbank Age
Dana was born on April 27, 1968 in Jewish Family. He is 51 years old as of 2019.
Dana Milbank Family | Dana Milbank Parents
Dana was born to a Jewish family. He is the son of Ann C. and Mark A. Milbank.
Dana Milbank Education
Dana is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He is a graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York
Dana Milbank Wife | Dana Milbank Fiance
Dana married Donna Lynn DePasquale in an interfaith Jewish and Roman Catholic ceremony in 1993. Their marriage ended with a divorce in 2017. He then married Anna Greenberg, daughter of Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and stepdaughter of Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT).
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During his career Dana covered the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections. He also covered President George W. Bush’s first term in office. After Bush won the 2000 election, Karl Rove asked The Washington Post not to assign Dana to cover White House news. A pool report penned by Dana in 2001,which covered a Bush visit to the U.S. Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. According to him the nickname given to him by the president is “not printable in a family publication.”
Dana Milbank PhotoHe writes “Washington Sketch” for the Post, an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Prior to coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal.
Dana was criticized for a July 30, 2008 article in which, in part by using snippets of quotations, he portrayed Barack Obama as being presumptuous. A few days later MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann stated that Dana would not be allowed back onto his show, which Dana had appeared on since 2004, until Dana submitted “a correction or an explanation.” However, he had apparently already left Olbermann’s show for another show on CNN. He stated that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann’s staff over making a positive comment about Charlie Black, a John McCain senior advisor, and as a result had already been negotiating with CNN.
Dana and Chris Cillizza appeared in a series of humor videos called “Mouthpiece Theater” which appeared on The Washington Post’s website. An outcry followed a video in which, during a discussion of the White House “Beer Summit”, they chose new brands for a number of people, including “Mad Bitch Beer” for Hillary Clinton. Both men apologized for the video and the series was canceled.
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For a July 30, 2008 article Dana was criticized in which, in part by using snippets of quotations, he portrayed Barack Obama as being presumptuous. A few days later MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann said that Dana would not be allowed back onto his show, which he had appeared on since 2004, until Milbank submitted “a correction or an explanation.” However, Dana had apparently already left Olbermann’s show for another show on CNN. He said that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann’s staff over making a positive comment about Charlie Black, a John McCain senior advisor, and as a result had already been negotiating with CNN.
Dana Milbank Books
Dana is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush—Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail.
Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government was published by Random House in January 2008.
Doubleday released Dana’s polemic biography of conservative pundit Glenn Beck: Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America in 2010,which a review in Dana’s paper, The Washington Post, said was a “droll, take-no-prisoners account of the nation’s most audacious conspiracy-spinner.”
Dana Milbank Wikileaks
Revealed through the second Wikileaks release on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dana appears to have asked the committee to do the majority of the research for a negative column he wrote about Donald Trump in April 2016.