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name	Kathleen Parker| image = Kathleen Parker 2016 (30508702362) (cropped).jpg| caption = Parker in 2016| birth_name = | birth_date = 1951/1952 (age 71-72)| birth_place = Winter Haven, Florida, U.S.| death_date = | death_place = | education = Winter Haven High School 1= | occupation = Columnist| children = 1| spouse = Woody Cleveland| credits = Orlando SentinelThe Washington Post (1987–present)| agent = {edih}Kathleen Parker (born 1951/1952) is a columnist for The Washington Post. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, a popular guest on cable and network news programs and a regular guest on NBC’s Meet the Press, and previously on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.Parker considers herself politically to be “mostly right of center”,EPISODE, Larry King Live, ‘Parker Spitzer’ Preview; Tony Curtis Remembered, CNN, 2010-09-30,transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/30/lkl.01.html, has been described as a “conservative-leaning columnist”,NEWS,www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/18/13-minutes-of-video-that-show-why-hillary-clinton-isnt-unbeatable-in-the-general-election/, Yes, Hillary Clinton is beatable in the general election. Just watch this video., The Washington Post, Chris, Cillizza, Chris Cillizza, May 18, 2016, and was the highest-scoring conservative pundit in a 2012 retrospective study of pundit prediction accuracy in 2008.WEB, Media Relations,www.hamilton.edu/news/polls/pundit, Pundit - Executive Summary - Hamilton College, Hamilton.edu, 2012-09-01, Early life and career Parker was raised in Winter Haven in Polk County, Florida, daughter of lawyer John Hal Connor Jr. and Connor’s first wife, Martha Ayer Harley (originally from Barnwell County, South Carolina who died in March 1955WEB, Martha Ayer Harley Connor (1923–1955),peoplelegacy.com/martha_ayer_harley_connor-4M4c4j, July 1, 2022, People Legacy, when Parker was 3 years oldNEWS, McMullen, Cary, Winter Haven Native Kathleen Parker Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary,www.theledger.com/article/20100414/news/4145035?p=1&tc=pg, 7 May 2016, The Lakeland Evening Ledger, April 14, 2010, ). Parker often spent summers with her mother’s family in Columbia, South Carolina.Parker attended Converse College before Florida State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in 1973 followed by a master’s degree in Spanish in 1976.WEB, Griffin, Ruben, April 12, 2010, Alumna Kathleen Parker Wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize,news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humanities/2010/04/12/alumna-kathleen-parker-wins-2010-pulitzer-prize/, July 1, 2022, Florida State University News, en-US, Parker’s career in journalism began in 1977, when she was hired to cover Hanahan, Goose Creek and Moncks Corner by the now-defunct Charleston Evening Post.NEWS, Monk, John, A Pulitzer Prize with S.C. ties, The State, The State Media Company, April 13, 2010, A columnist since 1987, she has worked for five newspapers, from Florida to California. She has written for several magazines, including The Weekly Standard, Time, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune Small Business.She serves on the Board of Contributors for USA Today{{’}}s Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section. She is also a contributor to the online magazine The Daily Beast. Parker is the author of (Save the Males|Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care.)From fall 2010, Parker co-hosted the cable news program Parker Spitzer on CNN with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.NEWS,politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/spitzer-parker-to-host-primetime-cnn-show/?fbid=yG2836JuGqz, CNN, Spitzer, Parker to host primetime CNN show, Parker was the 1993 winner of the H. L. Mencken Writing Award presented by The Baltimore Sun.WEB,articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-09-23/news/1993266074_1_mencken-kathleen-parker-marion-elizabeth-rodgers, 13th Mencken award goes to S.C. columnist, Baltimore Sun, 17 April 2018, The Week magazine named her one of the nation’s top five columnists in 2004 and 2005.WEB, CNN Taps Eliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker for Debate Show,nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/06/cnn_taps_eliot_spitzer_kathlee.html, 2020-09-08, New York, 23 June 2010, en-us, She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a selection of political opinion columns.NEWS,www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303828304575180172255471544?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Leads in Pulitzers, April 13, 2010, Parker wrote about the April 2019 arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Embassy of Ecuador, London, comparing him unfavorably to the “historic act of bravery” by Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers about American government lies in the Vietnam War. Assange’s “non-fans—including many in the U.S. media—long have viewed him as a sociopathic interloper operating under the protection of free speech.”.NEWS, Julian Assange isn’t a journalist or a Daniel Ellsberg. He’s just a ‘cypherpunk.’,www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/julian-assange-isnt-a-journalist-or-a-daniel-ellsberg-hes-just-a-cypherpunk/2019/04/12/93dfb850-5d68-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?noredirect=on, The Washington Post, April 12, 2019, May 30, 2020, Controversies During the 2008 U.S. presidential election Parker called on the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin, to step down from the party ticket (the day before the Vice-Presidential debate), saying that a series of media interviews showed that Palin was “clearly out of her league”.NEWS, Parker, Kathleen, Palin Problem: She’s Out of Her League,article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=, National Review, 2008-09-26, 2008-09-26, Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.,article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=," title="web.archive.org/web/20080927132629article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=,">web.archive.org/web/20080927132629article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=, 2008-09-27, dead, Parker received over 11,000 responses, mostly from conservatives critical of her opinion.Reliable Sources, CNN, October 5, 2008. Transcript on Lexis/Nexis. Retrieved August 2009.During the 2018 Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, Parker wrote a column advancing the theory that the alleged victim, Christine Blasey Ford, was mistaken in her identification of Brett Kavanaugh, and that there must be a doppelgänger.Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger? Retrieved September 23, 2018 The doppelgänger theory was criticized by other Washington Post columnists, such as Max Boot,The Kavanaugh doppelganger theory shows how far the right has descended into madness. Retrieved September 23, 2018 Erik Wemple,‘Really’: ‘Fox & Friends’ goes credulous on Kavanaugh conspiracy theory. Retrieved September 23, 2018The Kavanaugh controversy meets fake news. Real fake news.. Retrieved September 26, 2018 Jennifer Rubin, E. J. Dionne, and Avi Selk. Personal life Parker is married to an attorney, Sherwood M. “Woody” Cleveland, has one son and two stepsons, and resides in Camden, South Carolina.NEWS, Beyond the Byline: Kathleen Parker, Dayton Daily News (Ohio), Ellen Belcher, May 15, 2005, References {{reflist}} External links Parker’s column archives at Jewish World Review website Parker’s column archives at The Washington Post website {{C-SPAN|1029094}} {{The Washington Post Writers Group}}{{PulitzerPrize Commentary 2001–2025}}{{authority control}}