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John Avlon

American journalist
John Avlon

John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973)[1] is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and fill-anchor at CNN and former editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast from 2013 to 2018.[2][3][4][5] Avlon has also been a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and chief speechwriter for former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani.


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  • "Politics is history in the present tense."
    • The Rise of Obama's Bridge Between MLK and RFK, June 6, 2008. realclearpolitics.com[6]
  • "The far-right and far-left can be equally insane."
    • The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency, April 8, 2010. US News [7]
  • "Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction."
    • The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency, April 8, 2010. US News [8]
  • "Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy."
    • Republican Governor Popularity Plummets, May 19, 2010. The Daily Beast[9]
  • "Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1."
    • Savor this moment, in the name of the 3,000, May 2, 2011. cnn.com[10]
  • "Demagogues always do well in economic downturns."
    • Glenn Beck and the History of America’s Worst Demagogues, September 2, 2010. The Daily Beast[11]
  • "Professional partisans are still playing politics by industrial-age rules. They haven’t woken up to the information-age reality. Younger generations have grown up with a multiplicity of choice on every front, which can be tailored to suit their individual beliefs. Politics is the last place where we are supposed to be satisfied with a choice between Brand A and Brand B."
    • Six questions for John Avlon, May 16, 2010. The Economist [12]
  • "If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem."
    • The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party, June 30, 2010. The Washington Post[13]
  • "Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one."
    • John McCain's goodbye is in classic tradition of Washington's Farewell, August 28, 2018. cnn.com[14]
  • "The independence of our nation is inseparable from our interdependence as a people"
    • Washington's Farewell, January 2017. Simon and Schuster[15]
  • "Semi-obvious but bears repeating: Much of the evil in the world comes from seeing and judging people as members of groups rather than individuals."
    • Twitter, April 15, 2018.[16]


ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ Lippmann, Daniel (January 19, 2018). BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: John Avlon, editor in chief of The Daily Beast and a CNN analyst. Politico.
  2. ↑ Daily Beast Hires Executive Editor; Promotes John Avlon to Editor-In-Chief (Updated). The Wrap.
  3. ↑ John Avlon Leadership Profile. IAC.
  4. ↑ NEW DAY Transcript. CNN.
  5. ↑ Wemple, Erik (May 24, 2018). Big changes at the Daily Beast: EIC John Avlon to CNN; Noah Shachtman to replace him. The Washington Post.
  6. ↑ Avlon, John (June 6, 2008). Obama's Bridge Between MLK and RFK. Real Clear Politics.
  7. ↑ Retting, Jessica (April 8, 2010). The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency. US News.
  8. ↑ Retting, Jessica (April 8, 2010). The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency. US News.
  9. ↑ Avlon, John (May 19, 2011). Republican Governor Popularity Plummets, From Ohio's Kasich to Florida's Scott to Wisconsin's Walker. The Daily Beast.
  10. ↑ Avlon, John (May 2, 2011). Savor this moment, in the name of the 3,000. CNN.
  11. ↑ Avlon, John (September 2, 2010). Glenn Beck and the History of America’s Worst Demagogues. The Daily Beast.
  12. ↑ M., R. (May 16, 2010). Six questions for John Avlon. The Economist.
  13. ↑ Gerson, Michael (June 30, 2010). The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party. The Washington Post.
  14. ↑ Avlon, John (August 28, 2018). John McCain's goodbye is in classic tradition of Washington's Farewell. CNN.
  15. ↑ Avlon, John (January 2017) (in English). Washington's Farewell (Hardcover ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 284. ISBN 978-1-4767-4646-3. 
  16. ↑ Avlon, John (April 15, 2018). John Avlon Tweet. Twitter.

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