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Jennifer Rubin
Former conservative columnist who wrote The Washington Post's 'Right Turn' blog and columns from 2010 to January 2025. She then co-founded The Contrarian, a Substack publication, with Norm Eisen.
Slant Score · ranked #165 of 175 from most left to most right
16 Right
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Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.
The receipts (1)
Correction / walk-back · served the right · +1.5 R · Jul 22, 2011
Suggested the Norway attacks were jihadist
Rubin wrote a blog post suggesting the 2011 Norway attacks were jihadist. The attacker was a far-right Norwegian, James Fallows said the Post owed an apology, and Rubin acknowledged in a follow-up that her early suspicion was mistaken.
Source: Wikipedia (citing The Atlantic) →