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In reply to the discussion: SNL Cold Open was lame and needlessly harsh to Eugene Robinson [View all]UTUSN
(70,691 posts)All I know about Gene is that he's brilliant, represents everything I think. I know nothing about his life, not to mention his personal life (I'll Wiki him now). Well, I try to keep up with whatever the "news" topics are and if BEZOS's dick is going to be pictured, I guess I'll look at the pictures - to keep up with things, really. But I don't get why this angle got pinned on Mr ROBINSON. Much less why BRAZILE was portrayed as the center of judgment of anything.
*****ON EDIT, the Wiki says this/toto:
Early years and education
Robinson was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina and schooled at Orangeburg Wilkinson High School, where he "was one of a handful of black students on a previously all-white campus."[4]
Before graduating from the University of Michigan in 1974, he was the first African American co-editor-in-chief of The Michigan Daily.[4] During the 1987-1988 academic year, he was a mid-career Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.[5][6]
Career
In 1976, he began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle; his early assignments included the trial of publishing heiress Patty Hearst. He joined The Washington Post in 1980. Working his way up through the ranks, he was first a city hall reporter at the paper. He then became the assistant city editor; a South America correspondent based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; London bureau chief; foreign editor; and, most recently, the assistant managing editor of the paper's Style section. He began writing columns for the opinion page of the paper in 2005, also writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture, and conducts a weekly online conversation with readers.
Robinson appears frequently as a liberal political analyst[7] on MSNBC cable-TV network's programs such as Morning Joe, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, The Rachel Maddow Show, The Ed Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In addition, he is often a panelist on NBC's public affairs program Meet the Press.
Robinson was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in recognition of his columns that focused on then-Senator Barack Obama in the context of his first presidential campaign.[8]