David Corn is Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones magazine and a political analyst for MSNBC; The co-founder of Demand Question Time, a bipartisan, online effort calling on the President to participate in more question time, Corn is the author of Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back against Boehner, Cantor and the Tea Party and the co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War. He previously served as Washington Editor for Nation magazine.
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