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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ahmad Abbas
Novelist
7-Jun-1914 1-Jun-1987 The Last Page
Cecil Adams
Columnist
?   The Straight Dope
Franklin Pierce Adams
Columnist
15-Nov-1881 23-Mar-1960 New York columnist, The Conning Tower
George Ade
Author
9-Feb-1866 16-May-1944 Fables in Slang
Larry Adler
Musician
10-Feb-1914 6-Aug-2001 Mouth organ virtuoso
Mitch Albom
Novelist
23-May-1958   Tuesdays with Morrie
Jonathan Alter
Columnist
6-Oct-1957   Newsweek Senior Editor
Eric Alterman
Columnist
14-Jan-1960   The Nation columnist
Jack Anderson
Columnist
19-Oct-1922 17-Dec-2005 Uncovered CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro
Army Archerd
Columnist
13-Jan-1922 8-Sep-2009 Variety's gossip columnist
Gustavo Arellano
Journalist
3-Feb-1979   ¡Ask a Mexican!
Bill Arp
Columnist
15-Jun-1826 24-Aug-1903 Columnist for Atlanta Constitution
Ken Auletta
Columnist
23-Apr-1942   Media Columnist
Jed Babbin
Columnist
c. 1948   Human Events
Russell Baker
Author
14-Aug-1925   Growing Up
Fred Barnes
TV Personality
c. 1943   Fox News regular
Rona Barrett
Columnist
8-Oct-1936   Entertainment gossip columnist
Alex Barris
TV Personality
16-Sep-1922 15-Jan-2004 Canadian TV star from the '50s and '60s
Dave Barry
Columnist
3-Jul-1947   Dave Barry's Guide to Life
Bruce Bartlett
Government
11-Oct-1951   Conservative pundit
Peter Beinart
Columnist
1971   Washington Post columnist
John Berlau
Columnist
c. 1972   Competitive Enterprise Institute
Stanley Bing
Columnist
20-May-1951   Columnist for Fortune
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Columnist
c. 1955   K Street Confidential
Mark Bittman
Chef
c. 1950   The Minimalist
Tony Blankley
Pundit
21-Jan-1948 7-Jan-2012 McLaughlin Group pundit
Charles M. Blow
Columnist
?   New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Erma Bombeck
Columnist
21-Feb-1927 22-Apr-1996 The Grass is Always Greener
Max Boot
Columnist
1969   Conservative pundit
Tom Braden
Columnist
22-Feb-1917 3-Apr-2009 Crossfire, Eight Is Enough
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Novelist
5-May-1933   Emma Harte saga
Tom Brazaitis
Columnist
8-Aug-1940 30-Mar-2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist
Andrew Breitbart
Columnist
1-Feb-1969 1-Mar-2012 Washington Times columnist
Jimmy Breslin
Columnist
17-Oct-1930   The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Susie Bright
Columnist
25-Mar-1958   Sexpert, porn critic
David Broder
Journalist
11-Sep-1929 9-Mar-2011 Washington Post reporter
Charlie Brooker
TV Personality
3-Mar-1971   British satirist, Screenwipe
David Brooks
Columnist
11-Aug-1961   Shields and Brooks
Ron Brownstein
Columnist
6-Apr-1958   The Los Angeles Times
Tammy Bruce
Radio Personality
19-Aug-1962   Right-wing radio pundit, columnist
Pat Buchanan
Columnist
2-Nov-1938   Crossfire
Art Buchwald
Columnist
20-Oct-1925 17-Jan-2007 Syndicated columnist and humorist
William F. Buckley
Columnist
24-Nov-1925 27-Feb-2008 National Review
Stu Bykofsky
Columnist
c. 1941   Philadelphia Daily News
Herb Caen
Columnist
3-Apr-1916 1-Feb-1997 Long running San Francisco columnist
Margaret Carlson
Columnist
c. 1944   Time columnist
Tucker Carlson
Pundit
16-May-1969   Conservative pundit on Fox News
Howie Carr
Columnist
17-Jan-1952   Boston Herald columnist, talk-radio host
Jonathan Chait
Journalist
1972   Senior Editor, The New Republic
Alexander Cockburn
Columnist
6-Jun-1941 20-Jul-2012 The Nation, CounterPunch
Claudia Cohen
Columnist
16-Dec-1950 15-Jun-2007 Gossip columnist
Richard Cohen
Columnist
1941   Washington Post columnist
Charles Cook
Publisher
?   Cook Political Report
David Corn
Columnist
Feb-1959   Washington editor of The Nation
Jay Cost
Columnist
1978   Spoiled Rotten
Craig Crawford
Columnist
1956   Congressional Quarterly columnist
Stanley Crouch
Columnist
14-Dec-1945   Jazz critic
Ross Douthat
Columnist
28-Nov-1979   New York Times columnist
Maureen Dowd
Columnist
14-Jan-1952   New York Times columnist
Pete du Pont
Politician
22-Jan-1935   Governor of Delaware, 1977-85
John Dvorak
Columnist
1952   Crusty Geek PC Magazine Columnist
Bruce Eckel
Computer Programmer
8-Jul-1957   Thinking in Java
Barbara Ehrenreich
Author
26-Aug-1941   Nickel and Dimed
Larry Elder
Radio Personality
27-Apr-1952   Republitarian radio talk show host
Bonnie Erbe
TV Personality
?   Host of To the Contrary
Susan Estrich
Pundit
16-Dec-1952   Fox News liberal
Rowland Evans
Columnist
28-Apr-1921 23-Mar-2001 Evans and Novak
Bruce Fein
Government
c. 1947   Former Reagan lawyer
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Politician
10-Jun-1835 24-Jan-1930 First female in the US Senate
Andrew Ferguson
Journalist
?   Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard
Garance Franke-Ruta
Columnist
c. 1975   Senior Editor, The American Prospect
Dan Frisa
Politician
27-Apr-1955   Congressman from New York, 1995-97
Dan Froomkin
Columnist
c. 1963   Huffington Post writer and media critic
David Frum
Pundit
30-Jun-1960   Coined "Axis of Evil"
John Fund
Columnist
c. 1956   The Wall Street Journal
Frank Gaffney
Columnist
5-Apr-1953   Prominent neocon
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author
16-Sep-1950   The Signifying Monkey
Bill Geist
Columnist
10-May-1945   60 Minutes II
David Gergen
Columnist
9-May-1942   Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton
Jack Germond
Columnist
30-Jan-1928   Fat Man in a Middle Seat
Bill Gertz
Journalist
21-Mar-1952   Washington Times reporter, Fox News analyst
Georgie Anne Geyer
Journalist
2-Apr-1935   Foreign correspondent turned columnist
Paul Gigot
Columnist
1955   Wall Street Journal columnist
Malcolm Gladwell
Columnist
3-Sep-1963   The Tipping Point
James Glassman
Publisher
1-Jan-1947   Roll Call editor
Jonah Goldberg
Columnist
21-Mar-1969   National Review Online
Victoria Gotti
Relative
27-Nov-1962   Growing Up Gotti
Sheilah Graham
Columnist
15-Sep-1904 17-Nov-1988 Beloved Infidel
Jeff Greenfield
Pundit
10-Jun-1943   ABC, CNN talking head
Meg Greenfield
Journalist
27-Dec-1930 13-May-1999 The Washington Post
Lloyd Grove
Columnist
c. 1954   Gossip columnist
Rebecca Hagelin
Columnist
c. 1961   Heritage Foundation spokesperson
David Harsanyi
Columnist
?   Nanny State
Steve Hartman
Columnist
14-Apr-1963   60 Minutes II
Paul Harvey
Radio Personality
4-Sep-1918 28-Feb-2009 The Paul Harvey Show
Bob Herbert
Columnist
7-Mar-1945   Former New York Times columnist
Hugh Hewitt
Radio Personality
22-Feb-1956   Conservative talk radio show
Carl Hiaasen
Author
12-Mar-1953   Team Rodent: How Disneyland Devours the World
Fred Hiatt
Columnist
30-Apr-1955   Washington Post Editorial Page Editor
Jim Hightower
Radio Personality
11-Jan-1943   Texan, radio voice, author
Perez Hilton
Columnist
23-Mar-1978   Gossip columnist
Michael Hiltzik
Columnist
9-Nov-1952   Los Angeles Times columnist
James Hirsen
Columnist
c. 1950   The Left Coast Report
Amy Holmes
Columnist
1973   BET host, conservative commentator
Hedda Hopper
Actor
2-May-1885 1-Feb-1966 Queen of the Quickies
Arianna Huffington
Columnist
15-Jul-1950   The Huffington Post
David Ignatius
Columnist
1950   Washington Post op-ed columnist
Molly Ivins
Columnist
30-Aug-1944 31-Jan-2007 Loudmouthed Texas dame
Jeff Jacoby
Columnist
10-Feb-1959   Boston Globe columnist
Holman Jenkins
Columnist
c. 1960   Wall Street Journal
Robert Kagan
Government
26-Sep-1958   Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC
Fred Kaplan
Columnist
?   Slate columnist
Amos Kenan
Author
2-May-1927 4-Aug-2009 The Road to Ein Harod
Dorothy Kilgallen
Columnist
3-Jul-1913 8-Nov-1965 What's My Line?
James J. Kilpatrick
Columnist
1-Nov-1920 15-Aug-2010 Conservative columnist, Point-Counterpoint
Colbert King
Columnist
20-Sep-1939   Washington Post columnist
Michael Kinsley
Pundit
9-Mar-1951   Founding editor of Slate
Mort Kondracke
Columnist
28-Apr-1939   Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin
Charles Krauthammer
Columnist
13-Mar-1950   Washington Post columnist
Bill Kristol
Columnist
23-Dec-1952   Editor of The Weekly Standard
Irving Kristol
Columnist
22-Jan-1920 18-Sep-2009 Influential neocon
Paul Krugman
Columnist
28-Feb-1953   New York Times columnist/economist
Lawrence Kudlow
Economist
20-Aug-1947   Kudlow & Cramer
Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Radio Personality
1-Sep-1969   Conservative pundit
Irv Kupcinet
Columnist
31-Jul-1912 10-Nov-2003 Kup's Column
Howard Kurtz
Journalist
1-Aug-1953   Media critic
Donald Lambro
Journalist
14-Jul-1940   Washington Times
Ann Landers
Columnist
4-Jul-1918 22-Jun-2002 Syndicated advice columnist
Michael Lewis
Author
15-Oct-1960   Liar's Poker
Tod Lindberg
Columnist
1960   Policy Review editor
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Columnist
22-Mar-1976   National Review Online editor
Jim Louderback
Columnist
c. 1961   Former PC Magazine editor-in-chief
Regina Lynn
Columnist
?   Wired News sex columnist
Heather Mac Donald
Columnist
c. 1956   Neoconservative bombthrower
Andrew H. Malcolm
Columnist
22-Jun-1943   Los Angeles Times editorial board
Michelle Malkin
Columnist
20-Oct-1970   Syndicated conservative columnist
Julianne Malveaux
Columnist
c. 1953   Pundit
Ruth A. Marcus
Columnist
c. 1960   Washington Post columnist
Rachel Marsden
Pundit
2-Dec-1974   Conservative pundit
Judith Martin
Columnist
13-Sep-1938   Miss Manners
Chris Matthews
Talk Show Host
17-Dec-1945   Hardball with Chris Matthews
Clifford D. May
Activist
c. 1951   Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
William McGurn
Government
4-Dec-1958   Chief speechwriter for Bush, 2005-08
Ilana Mercer
Columnist
?   WorldNetDaily columnist
Matthew Miller
Columnist
c. 1962   The Two Percent Solution
Dick Morris
Government
28-Nov-1948   Fox News lapdog, former Clinton advisor
Walter Mossberg
Columnist
27-Mar-1947   Technology columnist, Wall Street Journal
Joel Mowbray
Columnist
?   Dangerous Diplomacy
Deroy Murdock
Columnist
1963   Conservative pundit
Michael Musto
Columnist
3-Dec-1955   Village Voice gossip columnist
Nicholas Negroponte
Educator
1943   Founder, MIT Media Lab
George Neumayr
Columnist
c. 1972   Editor, Catholic World Report
Joe Nocera
Columnist
6-May-1952   Business columnist, NYT
Jay Nordlinger
Columnist
1963   Senior Editor, National Review
Grover Norquist
Activist
19-Oct-1956   Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader
Robert Novak
Columnist
26-Feb-1931 18-Aug-2009 Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame
Bill Nye
Columnist
25-Aug-1850 22-Feb-1896 Bill Nye and Boomerang
Kate O'Beirne
Columnist
c. 1949   Conservative pundit
Tom Oliphant
Columnist
c. 1945   Boston Globe columnist
Norman Ornstein
Author
14-Oct-1948   American Enterprise Institute
Clarence Page
Columnist
2-Jun-1947   Newspaper columnist, talking head
Kathleen Parker
Columnist
c. 1954   Washington Post columnist
Louella Parsons
Columnist
6-Aug-1881 9-Dec-1972 Hollywood queen of gossip
Sara Payson Willis Parton
Columnist
9-Jul-1811 10-Oct-1872 Columnist Fanny Fern
Westbrook Pegler
Columnist
2-Aug-1894 24-Jun-1969 Ultraconservative newspaper columnist
Ralph Peters
Columnist
1952   New York Post columnist
Kevin Phillips
Pundit
30-Nov-1940   Political commentator
Jim Pinkerton
Pundit
11-Mar-1958   Fox News Watch
John Podhoretz
Columnist
18-Apr-1961   Conservative columnist
Ramesh Ponnuru
Columnist
16-Aug-1974   Senior Editor, National Review
Sylvia Porter
Columnist
18-Jun-1913 5-Jun-1991 Financial columnist
Emily Post
Columnist
27-Oct-1873 25-Sep-1960 Etiquette
Michael Potemra
Columnist
?   Deputy Managing Editor, National Review
Dennis Prager
Radio Personality
2-Aug-1948   Conservative Jewish radio host
Bill Press
Pundit
1940   Liberal commentator
Wes Pruden
Columnist
?   Washington Times editor-in-chief
Anna Quindlen
Columnist
8-Jul-1953   NYT columnist, later novelist
Ted Rall
Cartoonist
26-Aug-1963   Godless heathen cartoonist
William Raspberry
Columnist
12-Oct-1935 17-Jul-2012 The Washington Post
Frank Rich
Columnist
2-Jun-1949   New York magazine
Paul Craig Roberts
Economist
1939   The Supply-Side Revolution
Eugene H. Robinson
Journalist
12-Mar-1954   Associate Editor, Washington Post
Richard Roeper
Columnist
17-Oct-1959   Siskel's replacement
Will Rogers
Comic
04-Nov-1879 15-Aug-1935 American Cowboy, Entertainer, Humorist
Andy Rooney
Journalist
14-Jan-1919 4-Nov-2011 60 Minutes' resident crank
Elmo Roper
Business
31-Jul-1900 30-Apr-1971 American pollster
Abe Rosenthal
Journalist
2-May-1922 10-May-2006 NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86
Ilene Rosenzweig
Columnist
?   Swell designer
Stuart Rothenberg
Publisher
c. 1948   Rothenberg Political Report
Carl Rowan
Columnist
11-Aug-1925 23-Sep-2000 Chicago Sun-Times columnist
Mike Royko
Columnist
19-Sep-1932 29-Apr-1997 Syndicated Chicago columnist
Tim Rutten
Columnist
?   Los Angeles Times columnist
William Safire
Columnist
17-Dec-1929 27-Sep-2009 NYT columnist, language maven
Robert J. Samuelson
Columnist
23-Dec-1945   Newsweek columnist
Dan Savage
Columnist
7-Oct-1964   Weekly sex columnist
Rowan Scarborough
Journalist
?   Rumsfeld's War
Sydney Schanberg
Journalist
17-Jan-1934   The Death and Life of Dith Pran
Robert Scheer
Columnist
4-Apr-1936   Former L.A. Times columnist
Debbie Schlussel
Radio Personality
9-Apr-1969   Conservative pundit
Bill Schneider
Pundit
8-Oct-1944   CNN senior political analyst
Mark Shields
Columnist
25-May-1937   Shields and Brooks
Amity Shlaes
Columnist
1960   The Forgotten Man
Hugh Sidey
Journalist
3-Sep-1927 21-Nov-2005 Time magazine
Michael Smerconish
Radio Personality
15-Mar-1962   Philadelphia talk radio host
Liz Smith
Columnist
2-Feb-1923   Gossip Columnist
Lawrence Solomon
Activist
1948   The Deniers
Norman Solomon
Critic
1952   Media critic
Joel Stein
Columnist
23-Jul-1971   LA Times columnist
A. B. Stoddard
Columnist
c. 1967   Columnist for The Hill
Mike Straka
Columnist
10-Oct-1969   Grrr! columnist for Fox News
Tristan Taormino
Columnist
9-May-1971   Anal sex authority
James Taranto
Columnist
1966   Wall Street Journal
Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Journalist
c. 1948   National Journal columnist
Marc A. Thiessen
Columnist
c. 1967   White House speechwriter, 2004-09
Cal Thomas
Columnist
2-Dec-1942   Fox News Watch
Emmett Tyrrell
Columnist
1943   Publisher, The American Spectator
Harlan Ullman
Columnist
15-Mar-1941   Shock and Awe
Abigail Van Buren
Columnist
4-Jul-1918   Dear Abby emeritus
Amy Vanderbilt
Columnist
22-Jul-1908 27-Dec-1974 Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette
Vaughn Ververs
Journalist
10-Jan-1969   Editor of The Hotline 2002-05
Marilyn vos Savant
Columnist
11-Aug-1946   IQ 228, writes for Parade
Jude Wanniski
Columnist
17-Jun-1936 29-Aug-2005 Supply-side theorist
Artemus Ward
Columnist
23-Apr-1834 6-Mar-1867 Humorist
Keith Waterhouse
Novelist
6-Feb-1929 4-Sep-2009 Billy Liar
Ben Wattenberg
Pundit
26-Aug-1933   Think Tank moderator
Auberon Waugh
Columnist
17-Nov-1939 16-Jan-2001 Columnist for Private Eye
Gene Weingarten
Columnist
2-Oct-1951   Below the Beltway
David Wessel
Journalist
c. 1953   Wall Street Journal
Paul Weyrich
Columnist
7-Oct-1942 18-Dec-2008 Conservative activist
E. B. White
Author
11-Jul-1899 01-Oct-1985 Charlotte's Web
James Wieghart
Journalist
16-Aug-1933 21-Feb-2010 Editor, NY Daily News, 1982-84
George Will
Columnist
4-May-1941   Conservative pundit, baseball lover
Armstrong Williams
Columnist
5-Feb-1959   Black conservative pundit on the take
Jules Witcover
Columnist
16-Jul-1927   Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist
Byron York
Columnist
c. 1956   Former National Review columnist





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