Jeffrey Lord

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This article is about the Pennsylvania political strategist and commentator. For the literary pseudonym, see Richard Blade (series).
Jeffrey Lord
Nationality American
Education Franklin and Marshall College
Occupation Political staffer, author

Jeffrey Lord is a former member of the Ronald Reagan administration, author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Lord earned a degree from Franklin and Marshall College.[2]

Career[edit]

Lord first worked as a press aide in the Pennsylvania State Senate.[2] He worked for Pennsylvania congressman Bud Shuster as legislative director and press secretary and for U.S. senator H. John Heinz III as executive assistant.[2] Later, Lord worked as chief of staff to Drew Lewis, for part of the time that Lewis was a co-chairman of Pennsylvania for the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign.[2] He also served in the Reagan White House as an associate political director 1987–1988.[2] In that position, he assisted in the judicial nomination process for several nominees, including Robert Bork for the Supreme Court.[3] He also worked for Jack Kemp during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.[2]

Lord works as a political commentator, contributing material to CNN, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, National Review Online, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News. He has appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs.[2] He also works as a political consultant for Quantum Communications, a Harrisburg-based political strategy firm.[2]

He is the author of The Borking Rebellion, about the confirmation of Federal Judge D. Brooks Smith.[2] It received a generally positive review in the Wall Street Journal.[4] His more recent book, published in January 2016 (from which he gained the name, "The Trump Defender"),[5] is What America Needs: The Case for Trump.

Controversies[edit]

In July 2010, after Shirley Sherrod stated that a relative of hers had been lynched in the 1940s, Lord wrote an article in the American Spectator pointing out that the man in question had actually been beaten to death by police officers, and questioning Sherrod's "veracity and credibility" because of this;[6] Lord faced substantial criticism as a result,[7][8][9] including from other contributors to American Spectator.[10][11]

In August 2011, Lord wrote an article in the American Spectator that was critical of Congressman Ron Paul (Republican, Texas), and the views of some of Ron Paul's supporters.[12] It sparked considerable debate within the conservative movement.[13]

In May 2012, Lord wrote an article in The American Spectator that compared President Barack Obama with Mao Zedong because of the similarities between Barack Obama's slogan "Forward" and Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward.[14] In the same article, he also compared Obama with the Hitler Youth due to their song "Vorwärts! Vorwärts!" ("Forward, Forward!").

In February 2015, Lord called upon the Republican Party to demand an apology from the Democratic Party for their role in promoting and defending slavery and creating the segregationist Jim Crow system.[15]

In June 2015, Lord wrote an open letter to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the U.S. Democratic Party, asking her to apologize for her party's role in Indian removal, promoting and defending slavery, Confederate secession, and creating segregationist Jim Crow regimes, saying that the Democrats' historical support for such institutions contributed and contributes to the continuing existence of racism and bigotry in American society.[16]

In March 2016, during a Super Tuesday election night on CNN, an argument ensued for several minutes between Lord and a CNN contributor, Van Jones, about Lord's defense of Donald Trump. It came about when a fellow contributor, conservative commentator S. E. Cupp, accused Trump of "crazy, dog whistle policy proposals", that she believed he had made to attract prejudiced voters,[17] and because Trump had hesitated to disavow KKK member David Duke in a CNN interview the previous weekend. Lord responded that the KKK many decades ago had supported Democrats and were therefore left wing, and accused those who raised these worries of dividing Americans by race.[18] Van Jones questioned the relevance of the first point and declared the second point "absurd". Lord responded that "history matters", that Democrats continue to divide citizens by race today, and that doing so is "morally wrong".[19]

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lord, Jeffrey, (July 14, 2015)."Yes, Trump Can Win: Media, GOP Establishment made same attacks on Reagan". American Spectator.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Givant, Kimberly (October 3, 2016). "Interview with CNN political commentator, F&M alumnus Jeffrey Lord". The College Reporter [F&M]. 
  3. ^ Lord, Jeffrey (December 20, 2012). "Robert Bork's America". The American Spectator. Retrieved March 6, 2016. 
  4. ^ Hillyer, Quin (August 30, 2005). "How the Judges Are Judged". Wall Street Journal. 
  5. ^ Baer, John (13 July 2016). "Live from Harrisburg: It's Jeffrey Lord, Donald Trump's defender on CNN". Philly.com. Retrieved 9 December 2016. 
  6. ^ Lord, Jeffrey (July 26, 2010). "Sherrod Story False". The American Spectator. 
  7. ^ "Jeff Lord Defends His Shirley Sherrod Piece", FrumForum.com, July 28, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  8. ^ Beutler, Brian, "Sherrod Critic: She Used 'Lynching' To Gin Up Democratic Voters", Talking Points Memo, July 28, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  9. ^ Balko, Radley, "The American Spectator's Mistaken History", Reason, July 26, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  10. ^ Klein, Philip, "Taking Issue With Jeff Lord", the American Spectator, July 26, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  11. ^ Tabin, John, "Sherrod Story True", the American Spectator via archive.org, July 26, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  12. ^ Lord, Jeffrey (August 23, 2011). "Ron Paul and the Neoliberal Reeducation Campaign". The American Spectator. 
  13. ^ Hunter, Jack (August 24, 2011). "Ron Paul and Conservatism: An Exchange". The American Spectator. Wood, Thomas (August 25, 2011). "American Spectator Dead Wrong on Ron Paul". 
  14. ^ Lord, Jeffrey (May 3, 2012). "Obama Steals Mao's Slogan". The American Spectator. 
  15. ^ "Conservative Review - Will GOP Demand Obama Apology for Slavery?". Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. 
  16. ^ "Will Democrats Apologize for Slavery and Segregation?". The American Spectator. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. 
  17. ^ Moyer, Justin William (March 2, 2016). "Trump and KKK inspire meltdown on CNN starring Van Jones and Jeffrey Lord". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2016. 
  18. ^ Wemple, Erik (July 26, 2016). "Trumpite Jeffrey Lord continues making mockery of CNN programming". Washington Post. 
  19. ^ Poniewozik, James (March 2, 2016). "A Fiery Debate on the K.K.K. in 2016. Who Figured?". The New York Times. 

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