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David Freddoso

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David Freddoso is the former Editorial Page Editor for The Washington Examiner. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Re-elect Barack Obama, available Jan. 28, 2013.

A former Capitol Hill reporter for National Review Online and a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Freddoso spent three years as an assistant to the late columnist Robert Novak. He began his career in Washington in 2002, covering Congress for Human Events.

He has also written two other books, The Case Against Barack Obama (2008) and Gangster Government (2011).

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  • David Freddoso: Without real journalism, 'you're on your own'

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    "Who's tweeting about Benghazi? Rich, middle-aged men and Chick-fil-A lovers." That note, sent from the Washington Post's Twitter account on Wednesday, elicited anger for its flippant treatment of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed four Americans in Libya. But more troubling than...

  • David Freddoso: A bonus for the 'fat cat banker'

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," President Obama said in a December 2009 interview. Bankers, he said, are "still puzzled why is it that people are mad at the banks. Well, let's see. You guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses ... and...

  • David Freddoso: Look who is purging their party now

    David Freddoso

    Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    It was almost exactly four years ago that MSNBC's blustery Chris Matthews declared that "the Republican Party continues to be unable to hang on to its moderates, especially in the Northeast, where it has begun to resemble the 19th century, pre-Civil War Whig Party." It was 2009, and the late...

  • David Freddoso: Obama bold on gun deaths, but still hides on drone killings

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    "If action by Congress could have saved one person, one child," an outraged President Obama declared on Wednesday, " ... if it could have prevented those people from losing their lives to gun violence in the future while preserving our Second Amendment rights -- we had an obligation to try."...

  • David Freddoso: Kentucky shocker: McConnell is campaigning

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    Mother Jones magazine briefly shook up the political world this week by posting online a secretly recorded meeting of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his campaign staff, taken at his campaign headquarters in Louisville. The magazine provide cuts of audio from a meeting of...

  • Guns and babies: A tale of two massacres

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, Apr 4, 2013

    You might not know it, but there's a mass murder trial going on in Philadelphia. There has been plenty of courtroom drama, and the death penalty remains a possibility. The media are seldom shy about such sensational affairs, but they have been with one. Perhaps it's because the accused mass...

  • No, the stimulus probably didn't help the job market, in one chart

    David Freddoso

    Updated: Wed, Feb 27, 2013

    Did President Obama's 2009 stimulus package work? We know how to measure success. As Obama said many times, the purpose of the stimulus package was to create or save jobs. Success or failure, then, is to be determined by the unemployment rate. But unfortunately, it isn't that simple. It's not...

  • Politicians declare sky falling; meanwhile, D.C. real estate market booms

    David Freddoso

    Published: Mon, Feb 25, 2013

    You’ve seen all the hype over the sequester and just how bad it’s going to be. Our editorial today attempts to debunk some of this. And there is one point in there that probably deserves a bit more room. We all know what Washington folk are saying about sequester. But are they really...

  • Sunday Reflection: David Freddoso: Don't just laugh at Dan Rather -- learn from him

    David Freddoso

    Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

    In 2004, CBS News anchor Dan Rather was given a series of memos purporting to show how George W. Bush had avoided service in Vietnam during the early 1970s. Rather wanted so badly for the document to be real that he put it on the air without much thought. He even sexed up his sourcing a bit,...



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