Who is Kathleen PARKER?!1 And *why* did she win a Pulitzer today?!1 (I'll do the Googling.)

[UTUSN]

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http://gawker.com/5515513/two-people-who-really-didnt-need-pulitzer-prizes-for-very-different-reasons

Two People Who Really Didn't Need Pulitzer Prizes, For Very Different Reasons

The Pulitzer Prizes came out today. One went to a columnist who wrote two years ago that Barack Obama was ethnically unequipped to understand America, and another went to the greatest songwriter of all time. Both of them were mistakes. ....

... Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist who won a commentary citation today for her "perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues." In 2008, one of those political and moral issues was whether Barack Obama had "blood equity" in his country, because he's only half American on account of his black Kenyan father:

"Full-bloodedness is an old coin that's gaining currency in the new American realm. Meaning: Politics may no longer be so much about race and gender as about heritage, core values, and made-in-America. Just as we once and still have a cultural divide in this country, we now have a patriot divide.

"Who "gets" America? And who doesn't? ....

"It's about blood equity, heritage and commitment to hard-won American values. And roots."

See? Obama doesn't "get" America, because his blood doesn't have enough American nucleotides or something. And his heritage—all those Africans that he never really knew but are related to him—renders him incapable of understanding those "hard-won" values that real Americans comprehend implicitly because they are genetically receptive to Western Culture. Does that sound like a hyperbolically reductive caricature of Parker's perceptive and often witty position? It's not: ....


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[SteppingRazor]

1. That little bit of idiocy aside ...

I actually find her to be one of the more reasonable conservative columnists. For example, also during the 2008 campaign, she wrote that Palin should step down from the Republican ticket, basically for being such a moron. There's not a whole lot of conservative columnists that would actually concede that.

[valerief]

12. Oh, that's all it takes to please you? How low do our standards have to go? nt

[Captain Hilts]

18. She, ultimately, blames everything on feminism. nt

[kwassa]

2. Parker said Palin should resign as VP candidate the day after the Couric interviews

Parker was the first Repub commentator to peg Palin as a fraud. Parker got hell for it, too.

[Grand Taurean]

3. Both unworthy of any praise.

I for one am tired of hearing about who is a "real" American. I am also tired of hearing about how country "music" was the foundation for all modern music, because it's not. I am also tired of hearing about country "music" being "THE" music of America. :wtf:

[customerserviceguy]

13. Hey, lay off Hank Williams!

Carp about Parker any way you want, but Hank hasn't done anyone any harm!

[Grand Taurean]

16. Not a fan of either.

[miscsoc]

4. she's a right wing hack

who gets credit for talking banal centrist sense only because she previously talked nazi garbage.

tip for mediocre journalists who want unmeritied success: ditch your boring sensible opinions and start churning out bircher drivel for a couple of yours. When you stop and switch back to the obvious but inoffensive crap you produced originally, the media will adore you as some brave fucking principled maverick for breaking ranks with your "side"

if you just start off saying obvious shit like "sarah palin is a damned moron", you won't get any attention. but if you start off crazy and prominent and THEN come out with that obvious shit, you are a story, baby (RIGHT WING COLUMNIST KATHLEEN PARKER GOES OFF THE RESERVATION!!!) and the pulitzer is yours

[nickinSTL]

5. what a load of crap

heck, I'm more American by this idiot's reckoning than Obama, because my ancestors have been here for well over 100 years - however....

I do not feel like I have a very good handle on what Americans think they're about. My upbringing overseas may have something to do with that, but I don't see anything about actual life experience, only "blood".

Complete and utter dreck. This idiot doesn't deserve space in the Weekly World News, much less a freaking Pulitzer.

[UTUSN]

6. O.K., WaPo, predictable. So she called for Quitter to quit. Fine.

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http://www.thestate.com/2010/04/12/1241125/kathleen-parker-wins-pulitzer.html

Kathleen Parker wins Pulitzer Prize

Kathleen Parker, a columnist for The Washington Post who lives in Camden and Washington, D.C., has won a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, it was announced Monday afternoon.

Parker, whose work appears in The State and more than 400 other newspapers, is known for her witty columns on political and moral issues. Parker was one of four Pulitzer recipients at The Post.

In her profile on The Washington Post Writers Group web site, Parker is quoted: "My ambitious goal is to try to inject a little sanity into a world gone barking mad."

She holds a master's degree in Spanish from Florida State University and is writer in residence at the Buckley School of Public Speaking in Camden. Parker is married and has three sons.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Parker

Kathleen Parker is an American syndicated columnist. Her columns are syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, and is a regular guest on television shows like The O'Reilly Factor and The Chris Matthews Show. Parker is a self-described conservative<1>.

Parker is the author of Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (New York: Random House, 2008). A columnist since 1987, she has worked for five newspapers, from Florida to California, and is the 1993 winner of the H.L. Mencken writing award presented by the Baltimore Sun. She has written for several magazines, including The Weekly Standard, Time, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan and Fortune Small Business. She also serves on the Board of Contributors for USA TODAY's Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section. She is also a contributor to the online magazine, The Daily Beast. The Week magazine named her one of the nation's Top Five columnists in 2004 and 2005.

Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, and attended Converse College before transferring to Florida State University where she majored in Spanish Literature. She also holds a Master's degree in the subject from Florida State.

She is married to an attorney, has three sons, and currently resides in Camden, South Carolina.<2>

Parker made news during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when she called on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin, to step down from the party ticket, saying that a series of media interviews showed that Palin was "clearly out of her league."<3><4><5> Parker received over 11,000 responses, most from conservatives criticizing her.<6>

In April, Kathleen Parker won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary with a selection of political opinion columns.

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[pinboy3niner]

7. Obviously a bad column on Obama, a good one on Palin

I confess I'm not familiar with her work, so I certainly can't say she's not deserving for the period covered. To say I don't have a horse in this race would be an understatement.

[underpants]

8. Are you kidding me? Kathleen Parker? She hasn't actually made a point ...ever

I started reading her columns as their were a regular in the local rag (Richmond Times-Dispatch) and for the life of me I could never figure out why she was published. Her columns were arid wastelands of consonants and vowels that never actually got anywhere. Only Ann Coulter makes her seem lucid, at least in structure. She is a milquetoast publishing welfare cheat. I figured that she must have some really good stuff on some high-powered figures in the publishing world, there really is no other explanation.

WOW this is a sad day for journalism.

[Oceansaway]

9. Tweetys pal.....n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. She's odd. She leans right but tries to be centrist a couple times a year.

I don't much like her but like a stopped clock, she says the right thing now and then.

[valerief]

11. So the racist Pulizter broad is 100% Native American?

:shrug:

[devilgrrl]

14. If anything, this is a testament to how truly awful that today's "journalism" is.

Think about it.

[chollybocker]

15. "Think about it."

I try not to. ;)

[Captain Hilts]

17. She's one in a LONG line of new, conservative columnists for the WP. I cancelled my

subscription.

Gerson
Parker
Kristol
Theisson

Then they fired Dan Froomkin.

[mmonk]

19. She sucks.

Who determines this crap anyway?