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David Cole

David Cole

Former GOP operative David Cole is the author of Republican Party Animal (Feral House, 2014). He’s been profiled by CBS News, The New Yorker, and The Guardian for his work as a Holocaust researcher. His book is currently banned by Amazon, but he survives (for the moment) on Twitter.

The Take

A Smear of Cole, a Schmear of Truth

David Cole

As a schoolkid, Media Matters scribe Eric Hananoki was the Asian student in no danger of t...

Another Defenestration

Little Miss Information

David Cole

Dear Biden administration: Please treat us like China. In 2020 I contacted Michael Posner...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Elections

The Trumpbart Primary

David Cole

I was gonna open this column with “One of the questions I’m frequently asked about the...

James O'Keefe

The Untold Story

The Night Baby Put Herself in a Corner

David Cole

In recent months I’ve written several pieces that mention my Friends of Abe years. It’...

Zeitgeist

Rightists Drown in Steve Bannon’s Flood

David Cole

Actor Michael Landon, born Oygenglayben Schmuelowitz (memo to self: Confirm that before pr...

Andrea Riseborough

Hollywood

“I’d Like to Thank the Blackademy”

David Cole

]It’s Oscar season! Which of course means only one thing: White people are evil. Of cou...

Idiocracy

Dinner Bell for the Right’s Last Supper

David Cole

In February 2007, 24-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Holocaust denier Eric Hunt had an ide...

The Take

Light Skin Atone

David Cole

Well, I warned her. September 1992. I was in Munich for the only reason I ever went to Eu...

Boston Common

Modern Art

Oh, What a Tangled Weave We Weld

David Cole

Autumn 1986 I attended an exhibit at the California Institute of the Arts. I wasn’t ther...

How-To

Hidden Hand Job

David Cole

You know who probably got more tail than anyone in history? The first dude who was able to...

BLM

Special-Needs Nation

David Cole

When I’m asked why I never had kids, my standard answer is, I’ve spent my life in mort...

Looking Back

Purge and Cleanse, No Loose Ends

David Cole

It’s a tradition ’round these parts (and by “these parts” I mean my desktop, comfy...

Duane Jones

Hollywood

I Woked With a Zombie

David Cole

My Christmas gift to myself this year is a column about zombie movies. I’ve been wantin...

How-To

Treading Water With Bimbos and Bilkers

David Cole

This week, I present the parable of the bimbo Kansan. Bambi Bimbo leaves her Midwestern h...

Zeitgeist

Overton Window to the Soul

David Cole

One of the frustrations of writing a weekly column is that sometimes you wrap a piece, pos...

Ron DeSantis

The Stupid Party

Right Wacks Off, Goes Blind

David Cole

I don’t live by a lot of rules (“socks first, then shoes” is one I find helpful. You...

Elections

Midterm for the Worse, Part III: Disjoin or Die

David Cole

Last week I was watching Tammy Bruce on Fox, and...hey, is she still a lesbian? That used ...

Elections

Midterm for the Worse, Part II: These Firsts Shall Be Our Last

David Cole

I get it, you’re tired of the midterms. Time to move on! After all, the GOP controls the...

Elections

Midterm for the Worse, Part I: Fetus Do Yo’ Stuff!

David Cole

The next few columns will analyze the midterms from different angles. This week: abortion....

Oy Vey!

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfberg?

David Cole

This column’s posting the day of the midterms, and that’s all anyone’s gonna want to...

Another Defenestration

Kanye’s Kancellation: The Devil’s in the Details

David Cole

I’m not sure l’affaire Yeezy deserves a second consecutive column...but its lessons ce...

Kanye West

Oy Vey!

The Jews Are Ye’s Misfortune

David Cole

Kanye West’s Jew-obsessed meltdown offers many potential angles for analysis. I could s...

District of Corruption

Bean and Gone in L.A.

David Cole

A conservative author remarked to me a few days ago, “Between Kanye and the Jews, and th...

American Infantry helmets, WWII

Revisions

The Holocaust of Doing Business

David Cole

Foreign policy ain’t my bag. I’m a history guy, as the lunatics on Twitter who tag me ...

Lizzo plays Madison flute

Zeitgeist

Vermin’s March

David Cole

This week I revisit a favorite theme: how poor interpretation leads to poor strategy. Like...

Donald Trump

The Untold Story

The Soft (Skulled) Underbelly of the Right

David Cole

David Cole is “the Antichrist” (Phil Donahue), “pure evil” (Washington Post), “a...

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