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Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April, 1968) is a political reporter for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones.[1] [2] [3]

Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the US Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles.[4] According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."[5]

As a reporter for The Washington Post, Milbank writes "Washington Sketch", an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal.

Milbank is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush--Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail. A new book, Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government, was published by Random House in January 2008.[6]

Milbank was criticized for a July 2008 article[7] in which he allegedly misquoted Barack Obama and as a result portrayed Obama as "presumptuous" [8][9]. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann stated that Milbank would not be allowed back onto his show, which Milbank had appeared on since 2004, until Milbank wrote a retraction. [10] Milbank subsequently left Olbermann's show for another show on CNN.[11] However, Milbank has stated that he has been dissatisfied since he was criticized by Olbermann's staff over making a positive comment about Charlie Black, a McCain senior advisor and had been negotiating with CNN already.[12]

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