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Jonathan Capehart

Opinion · Politics, race, culture · @CapehartJ on X

Co-host of MS NOW's The Weekend and Friday political commentator on PBS NewsHour. Washington Post opinion writer and editorial board member (2007–2025).

Previously: The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, New York Daily News, Bloomberg News, Hill & Knowlton

Slant Score · ranked #109 of 175 from most left to most 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 (2)

Correction / walk-back · served the left · +1.8 L · Mar 16, 2015

Wrote 'Hands up, don't shoot' was built on a lie

After the DOJ report, he wrote that Michael Brown never surrendered with his hands up and that he had been wrong to promote the slogan.

Source: Mediaite →
Partisan job · served the right · +1.8 R · Jan 1, 2001

Adviser and speechwriter for Bloomberg's 2001 mayoral run

Advised and wrote speeches for Michael Bloomberg's 2001 New York mayoral campaign, which Bloomberg ran as a Republican.

Source: Wikipedia →
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