John Phillips Avlon[1] (born 1973) is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America. He was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and worked as chief speechwriter for former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He was Director of Speechwriting and Deputy Policy Director for Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign.[2] He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.[3] He is senior political columnist at TheDailyBeast.com.[4]
[edit] Life and career
Avlon is the son of Dianne P. and John J. Avlon of South Carolina.[1] Avlon was the youngest and longest-serving speechwriter in the Giuliani Administration as well as Deputy Communications Director. His work included helping prepare the Mayor’s State of the City Addresses for 1999 through 2001. After the attacks of September 11th, he and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all New York City Firefighters, New York City Police Officers, Port Authority Police Officers and other emergency workers killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Additionally, he served on the staff of the Bilingual Education Reform Task Force, the City Hall Park Restoration Committee, and the 2001 Charter Revision Commission, which established the Office of Emergency Management as a permanent city agency.
Independent Nation has been called, “the definitive history of ‘Centrism’ in America, and probably the best-selling radical centrist book to date.”[5] Avlon has lectured at Yale University, NYU, the Citadel, the Kennedy School of Government, and the State Departments visiting journalist program. He is an advisory board member of the Citizens Union of New York, Bronx Academy of Letters and the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, and C-Span. He hosts the “Wingnut of the Week” segment on CNN.[6] Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote that “Americans who are fed up with the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore school of debate, and are looking for someone to articulate a common sense middle path, may have found their voice in John Avlon.”[7] His essay on the attacks of September 11, The Resilient City was selected to conclude the anthology Empire City: New York Through the Centuries and won acclaim from Fred Siegel, the author of The Future Once Happened Here, as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.
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June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Two guys are to …
Two guys are to blame for all of this…Alex Jones and David Icke. The two saviours of the idiots.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@MultiSmartass1 …
@MultiSmartass1 Sooo , it was just a co-incidence that Timothy McVeigh who perpetrated the OCB on the anniversary of the end of the ‘Seige at Waco’ while ‘Conspiracy Mongers’ where all over the media/internet turning ’self immolation by Koresh’ into ‘murder by the USG’ ? NOW THATS WHAT I CALL STEWPID ! The anniversary is the key, you’re as guilty as McVeigh, Live w/It .
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@MultiSmartass1 …
@MultiSmartass1 Sooo , it was just a co-incidence that Timothy McVeigh who perpetrated the OCB on the anniversary of the end of the ‘Seige at Waco’ while ‘Conspiracy Mongers’ where all over the media/internet turning ’self immolation by Koresh’ into ‘murder by the USG’ ? NOW THATS WHAT I CALL STEWPID ! The anniversary is the key, you’re as guilty as McVeigh, Live w/It .
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
halcyon0830
watch …
halcyon0830
watch?v=5u_4B6JDcgE&feature=related
Another kook happy conspiratard who loves calling the kettle black. Ever see a Alien &/Or Ufo , a ‘Evil Minion of Conspiracy’ , ‘They’ , ‘Them’ , Plane wrapped in a Hologram ? Neither have I .
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@cdddraftsman Mc …
@cdddraftsman Mc Veigh wasn’t egged on by any conspiracy mongers but was part of one to blow up the OCB along with Terry Nichols and unnamed conspirators. These other two guys are just random nuts who shot a few people. No connection and it is stupid to imply other wise.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@MultiSmartass1 Ya …
@MultiSmartass1 Ya so was Timothy McVeigh who perpetrated the OCB on the anniversary of the end of the ‘Seige at Waco’ egged on by ‘Conspiracy Mongers’ who use their vicious and pernicious minds bent on hating the USG ! HATRIOTS ! What we need to do is to hang about 500 of these kooksuckers from a sour apple tree on the grassy knoll ! BTW JFK He Was The Worse President We Ever Had ! Thats Offi’cia’l !
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@halcyon0830 This …
@halcyon0830 This guy Avlon is a GOP partisan hack who has a vested interest in seperating so-called conspiracy buffs from the right-wing of the GOP. He categorizes such people as neither right or left which contains some truth but in the case of the guy who shot the cops in Pittsburgh and the guy who shot the guard in DC are just disturbed people.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
i dont give a …
i dont give a about conspiracy. the fact of the matter is this society preys on the poor majority like slaves. people are trapped in lives they can’t stand to live. this creates people who start to dwell on the option of sacrificing themselves in an act of revenge as it seems less and less like a sacrifice and more like an escape.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
John Avlon-
Chief …
John Avlon-
Chief Speechwriter of Republican Rudolph Giuliani
Policy Director for Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign
Director of Speechwriting for Giuliani in 2008.
Senior Fellow at GOP’s Manhattan Institute which was created by Ronald Reagan’s CIA Director William Casey in 1978.
Does Avlon seem like he doesn’t have a political agenda, does he seem like a person who could treat liberals & republicans equally, does he seem like a person who’s not a biased partisan hack playing favoritism.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
you know aljazperc …
you know aljazperc your not rilly helping the caws. dont you know what hapins when you get outof line…im surfing and i find another guy who sed the people who have conspericy thereys are mentally disturbed people who are sick and need to be delt with…and if they are rilly willing to kill that manny people, then whats a few more that get out of line…you beder watch your self…YOU MIGHT LIKE STEVEN GREERS WORK IN (THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT). message back, ill read.
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
fuck these assholes!
these assholes!
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
false attack to …
false attack to start new war is dirty trick…
why some people in high positions spent entire life thinking about destroying some other people/property…
only profits?
damn they should rather smoke some marijuana to loosen up a little
legalize it! police state
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
no hes a centrist
no hes a centrist
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
he is calling …
he is calling oberman a wingnut?
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
ohh great…now …
ohh great…now they will make it even harder for truth to flow…..enter: the police state.
peace and conscience love to us all~~~
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
bs!
bs!
June 10th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
internet AND …
internet AND marijuana,,yep,,that splains eet….fktard…