James Kirchick

James Kirchick
Kirchick in 2015.
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationYale University
OccupationJournalist

James Kirchick (/ˈkɜːrtʃɪk/; born 1983) is an American reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and columnist. He has been described as a conservative or neoconservative.[1][2][3][4]

Career

Born in Boston,[5] Kirchick was raised in a Jewish family[6] and attended Yale University, where he wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.[7]

For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Later, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Prague.[8][9][10]

Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award.[11][12] Kirchick was previously a fellow for the think tank Foreign Policy Initiative. As the Foreign Policy Initiative was shutting down in 2017, Kirchick announced that he would be moving to the Brookings Institution in Washington.[13] His role at Brookings was as a visiting fellow.[14]

Ron Paul newsletters

Main article: Ron Paul newsletters

In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic, conspiratorial and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. The story again became prominent in the 2012 presidential election.[9][10]

It was later claimed by television station WXIX that Ron Paul was not the author of the newsletter segments which contained the material in question. In their second newscast on the scandal in January 2012, based on information provided by Lew Rockwell, who had also worked on the newsletter, WXIX's Reality Check claimed that the offending articles may have been written by one of the freelance writers who were said to have been employed at the time.[15]

Erik Wemple for The Washington Post wrote an article that included Kirchick's response to WXIX's second newscast, where Kirchick implied that the writer of the WXIX article, Ben Swann, was incorrect in his naming of the supposed writer of the "Special Edition on Racial Terrorism".[16]

Ron Paul did not initially deny authorship of the offending material,[17] though he had begun denying it by 2001. He has accepted responsibility for the content regardless of its author, as it was published under his name.[18]

August 2013 RT appearance

Immediately after U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning's July 30, 2013 court-martial conviction of, among other charges, violations of the Espionage Act, Kirchick wrote in the Daily News that Manning was "lucky not to be headed to the electric chair."[19] On August 21, on RT (formerly Russia Today), he participated in a live panel awaiting Manning's sentencing, Kirchick refused to discuss Manning, instead protesting the Russian LGBT propaganda law.[20] When asked if he was ready to have a conversation about Manning with the assembled panel, Kirchick retorted angrily: "RT has been Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden 24/7. I haven't seen anything on your network about the anti-gay laws that have been passed in Russia and the increasing climate of violence and hostility towards gay people."[21] One of the program's hosts objected, saying they had a panel discussing it only the day before and after refusing to follow the course of discussion set by RT,[22] Kirchick's video link was taken off air.[23]

Later that day, Politico reached out to both Kirchick and RT for comment. Kirchick called for a "boycott" of RT, calling its employees "not journalists, they're propagandists". RT responded in an e-mail, calling Kirchick's protest "unrelated to the subject of the panel. Regretfully, RT had no other recourse but to continue the discussion without him".[24] The Washington Post PostPartisan blogger Jonathan Capehart commended Kirchick for his "heroic" action;[25] The New Republic's Julia Ioffe praised Kirchick's "trolling of RT";[26] and the next day, The Washington Post published Kirchick's opinion piece titled "Why I ambushed Russia's news network with rainbow suspenders."[27] In it, Kirchick further denounced RT as broadcasting "sophisticated conspiracy theories and anti-establishment attitudes to push a virulently anti-American and illiberal agenda", while relying on "a pool of talking heads, including 9/11 truthers, anti-Semites, and other assorted extremists, who espouse the sort of views found where the far left and the far right converge". A day later, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell invited Kirchick onto his show where they discussed related concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.[28][29][30]

2016 presidential elections

Main article: Stop Trump movement

Kirchick supported Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton over the Republican Party candidate Donald Trump for the presidency during the 2016 presidential elections.[3][31] He described Trump as a "brashly authoritarian populist" and Clinton as "not only ... the obvious choice for those who don't want to see our country degenerate into a banana republic, she's the clear conservative choice as well."[31]

On August 15, 2016, The Daily Beast published an article by Kirchick which listed Jill Stein, Rania Khalek, Corey Robin, Glenn Greenwald, Ishaan Tharoor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and others as "Hillary Clinton-Loathing, Donald Trump-Loving Useful Idiots of the Left".[32] Ben Norton, writing for the Salon website, enquired to those mentioned in the article and received responses from them, 13 of the 14 indicated they would not be voting for Trump. The exception, Christopher Ketcham, claimed to vote for him not because he "loves" or "admires" him, but precisely because he says the GOP nominee "is an ignorant, vicious, narcissistic, racist, capitalist scumbag, and thus an accurate representative of the United States."[33]

Books

  • Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 2022. ISBN 9781627792325. OCLC 1293451114. On LGBT culture in Washington, D.C.
  • The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age (Yale University Press), 2017

Awards

  • 2006 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism[11]
  • 2007 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year[12]

References

  1. ^ Doyle, Vincent (2016). Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 193. ISBN 9780773598591. James Kirchick, a young gay conservative reporter and columnist...
  2. ^ Fischer, Mia (2019). Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State. University of Nebraska Press. p. 64. ISBN 9781496218520. ...a two-minute outburst by conservative gay columnist James Kirchick..
  3. ^ a b Norton, Ben (10 June 2016). "Another neocon endorses Clinton, calling her "2016's real conservative" and "the candidate of the status quo"". Salon.com.
  4. ^ Chait, Jonathan (21 August 2016). "The Neocons Have Gone From GOP Thought-Leaders to Outcasts". nymag.com. New York Magazine.
  5. ^ "James Kirchick". Atlantic Council.
  6. ^ "Super Tuesday - A special Election Day episode featuring 'Washington Post' reporter Bob Woodward, 'National Review' editor Eliana Johnson, Tablet columnist Jamie Kirchick, and a Democrat in Boca". Tablet magazine.
  7. ^ Downs, Jim; Manion, Jennifer (2004). Taking back the academy!: history of activism, history as activism. Taylor & Francis. p. 115. ISBN 9780203339589. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  8. ^ Staff writer (10 October 2010). "Gewalt bei erster Belgrader Homosexuellen-Parade". Nachrichten.at. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  9. ^ a b Montopoli, Brian (20 December 2011). "Ron Paul disavows racist newsletters under his name". CBS News. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  10. ^ a b Chait, Jonathan (15 December 2011). "News Bulletin: Ron Paul Is a Huge Racist". New York Magazine. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  11. ^ a b Belonsky, Andrew (3 October 2006). "Homo Journos Honored". Queerty. Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  12. ^ a b Staff writer (30 August 2007). "NLGJA Announces 2007 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners & LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame Inductees". National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  13. ^ Gray, Rosie (29 June 2017). "A Right-Leaning Foreign-Policy Think Tank Shuts Down". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  14. ^ "James Kirchick". Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  15. ^ Swann, Ben (5 January 2012). "Reality Check: The story behind the Ron Paul newsletters". Fox19. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  16. ^ Wemple, Erik (19 January 2012). "Cincinnati anchor goes deep on Paul campaign". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  17. ^ Stein, Sam (26 December 2011). "Ron Paul, In 1996, 'Did Not Deny' Controversial Statement In Newsletter". Huff Post.
  18. ^ Trumbull, Mark (29 December 2011). "'Racist newsletter' timeline: What Ron Paul has said". CS Monitor. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  19. ^ "Bradley Manning gets off easy". New York Daily News. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  20. ^ "Reporter interrupts live broadcast to protest Russia anti-gay laws". The Telegraph (U.K.). 21 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  21. ^ Mackey, Robert (21 August 2013). "American uses Kremlin-financed network to denounce Russia's anti-gay legislation". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  22. ^ [1], Headline News RT August 21, 2013,
  23. ^ Gay reporter James Kirchick kicked off Russia's RT news network for protesting anti-gay laws, nydailynews.com, August 21, 2013,
  24. ^ Gold, Hadas (21 August 2013). "Estonian president, Swedes back Kirchick". Politico. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  25. ^ "No love for Russia today from Jamie Kirchick". The Washington Post PostPartisan blog. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  26. ^ "This Video Proves That Trolling Russia Is Better Than Boycotting It". The Washington Post PostPartisan blog. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  27. ^ "Why I ambushed Russia's news network with rainbow suspenders". The Washington Post. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  28. ^ Russia says anti-gay law will not affect Games. Reuters. 22 August 2013.
  29. ^ IOC Statement. IOC. 22 August 2013.
  30. ^ Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. MSNBC. 23 August 2013.
  31. ^ a b Kirchick, James (9 June 2016). "Hillary Clinton Is 2016's Real Conservative—Not Donald Trump". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  32. ^ Kirchick, James (15 August 2016). "Beware the Hillary Clinton-Loathing, Donald Trump-Loving Useful Idiots of the Left". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  33. ^ Norton, Ben (17 August 2016). "No, they don't support Trump: Smeared left-wing writers debunk the myth". Salon.

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