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American comedian, writer, filmmaker, and political commentator
Katie Halper
Halper in 2008
Born
Katherine Rose Halper
July 11, 1980 or 1981 (age 42–43)[1] [2]
Education Wesleyan University Occupations
writer
journalist
filmmaker
podcaster
political commentator
teacher
Years active 2004–present Known for
Useful Idiots
Website katiehalper .com
Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of the podcast The Katie Halper Show and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Aaron Maté .
Early life and education
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Halper was born in New York City .[3] She grew up on Riverside Drive in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[1] [4] She graduated from the Dalton School , and from Wesleyan University in 2003.[5] [6] She is of Jewish Eastern European ancestry and has described herself as a secular Jew .[3] [1] Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist.[1]
Career
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After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida .[7] Halper has also taught history at her alma mater , the Dalton School .[8]
Comedy
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Katie Halper and Negin Farsad at Netroots Nation 2011
She began her career performing as a stand-up comedian. She has performed comedy at venues including Symphony Space , The Culture Project in New York, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival , the D.C. Comedy Festival, and at Netroots Nation . She also performed on the annual Seminar Cruise of The Nation magazine. She has performed with Lizz Winstead , Markos Moulitsas , The Yes Men , Cynthia Nixon , and Jim Hightower .[9]
Political activism
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Halper is a national director of Living Liberally and the co-founder of Laughing Liberally ,[10] both of which promote political action through social interaction.[11] [12]
Film
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She was outreach director for Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein 's documentary The Take (2004).[9] The documentary is about a workers' movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival , Venice Film Festival , and Film Forum .[13]
Halper's first film as director was entitled La Memoria es Vaga (2005), a documentary about the Valle de los Caídos and historical memory in post-Franco Spain . It was screened in the United States and Spain.[14] [7] Halper was co-producer of Tim Robbins and the DCTV film Embedded Live (also 2005), based on Robbins' play of the same name .[12] [7] Embedded Live was shown at the Venice Film Festival and Sundance Channel .[13] She was associate producer of Estela Bravo's Free to Fly: The US-Cuba Link (2004), about restrictions on travel between Cuba and the United States.[9] [7] Free to Fly was shown at the Havana Film Festival and Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival .[13] Halper directed and produced the film Commie Camp (2013). Commie Camp , originally entitled Another Camp Is Possible , is a documentary about Camp Kinderland , the Jewish summer camp where Halper went and her mother and grandmother worked.[9] [15] [16] [17] She also co-directed Facing Fascism: New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War , a video for an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York .[13]
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Articles by Halper have been published in The New York Times , Comedy Central , The Nation , Gawker , The Huffington Post , Alternet , Daily Kos , OpenLeft , The Raw Story , Jacobin , Salon , Vice , The Guardian , and Feministing , where she was a guest columnist.[9] [13] [18] [19]
She has been featured as a commentator on MSNBC ,[20] The Young Turks ,[21] RT ,[22] [23] Fox News Channel 's The Ingraham Angle ,[24] The Hill ' s Rising ,[25] [26] [27] The New York Times , New York Magazine , Los Angeles Times , In These Times , Jezebel , Gawker , MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Sam Seder Show , The Marc Maron Show , Sirius Radio , WBAI , XM Radio 's P.O.T.U.S. , and The Alan Colmes Show .[9]
In September 2022, Rising refused to air a segment on their show in which Halper called Israel an "apartheid government" . She was subsequently fired from the show.[25]
Podcasting
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Halper was co-host of the podcast and YouTube program Morning Jew with Heather Gold.[1] [28] She hosts The Katie Halper Show , a weekly WBAI radio show and podcast. The show received attention when, during an interview with Halper that was released as a podcast on March 25, 2020, Tara Reade, a former Senate staff assistant of Joe Biden , alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill office building in 1993.[29] [30] A Biden spokesperson said that the allegation was false.[31]
In 2019, Halper and Matt Taibbi launched and have since co-hosted the podcast Useful Idiots , which was distributed by Rolling Stone .[32] The podcast has since featured interviews with Tulsi Gabbard , Ro Khanna , Andrew Yang , Bernie Sanders , Michael Moore , Tim Robbins , Glenn Greenwald , Norman Finkelstein , Aaron Maté , Dennis Kucinich , Noam Chomsky , Adam McKay , Lowkey , Rashida Tlaib , and Roger Waters .[33] In March 2021, Taibbi announced that Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone and would instead be moving to Substack .[34] In January 2022, Taibbi announced a sabbatical leave to write a book, and that in his absence Aaron Maté would fill in for him.[35]
Filmography
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Free to Fly: The US-Cuba Link (2004) — Associate producer
Embedded Live (2005) — Co-producer
La Memoria es Vaga (2005) — Director, producer
Commie Camp (2013) — Director, producer
References
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^ a b "Deconstructed: The Journalist Censored for Defending Rashida Tlaib" . The Intercept . October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022 .
^ van Zuylen-Wood, Simon (March 4, 2019). "Pinkos Have More Fun" . Intelligencer. New York . Vol. 52, no. 5. Verso's book-lined Jay Street loft. p. 30. ISSN 0028-7369 . Gale A653370217 . Archived from the original (Cover story) on October 14, 2022 – via Cengage.
^ Bahrampour, Tara (November 7, 1999). "Urban Tactics; They Do Everything But Take the Test for You" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Briefs" . The Middletown Press . April 15, 2005. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ a b c d "Katie Halper" . Experimental Television Center . June 17, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Katie Halper" . The Nation . January 9, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ a b c d e f Truitt, Jos (December 8, 2011). "Welcome Katie Halper to the blog!" . Feministing . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Genzlinger, Neil (May 19, 2006). "A Night of Punch Lines With a Definite Political Agenda". The New York Times . Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan. p. E2. Gale A145949452 – via Cengage.
^ Adler, Ben (May 27, 2008). "Live, laugh and drink ... liberally" . Politico . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ a b "Katie Halper" . Feministing . November 16, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ a b c d e "Katie Halper Show" . WBAI . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Halper, Katie (January 20, 2008). "A True Atonement" . The New York Times . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Sucharov, Mira (August 29, 2013). "Commie Camp: Indoctrination or True Jewish Values?" . Haaretz . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Strauss, Elissa (September 17, 2013). "Q&A with 'Commie Camp' Filmmaker Katie Halper" . The Forward . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Fox, Tamar (December 12, 2013). "Everyone Wants to Go to Commie Camp" . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Katie Halper" . Jacobin . April 6, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Halper, Katie (April 24, 2020). "Tara Reade says Joe Biden sexually assaulted her. She deserves to be heard" . The Guardian . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Katie Halper" . Common Dreams . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Katie Halper" . The Young Turks . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Troy Davis execution outrage" . YouTube . RT America . September 21, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Katie Halper: Biden Sexy, Ahmadinejad Jewish, Obama Nazi" . YouTube . RT . November 10, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "WATCH: Jewish American Podcast Host Katie Halper Battles Laura Ingraham Over Right-Wing Anti-Sentimism" . Common Dreams . February 13, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ a b Grim, Ryan (September 29, 2022). "Hill TV Censors Segment on Rashida Tlaib's Description of Israel as "Apartheid Government," Bars Reporter" . The Intercept . First Look Media. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022.
^ "Journalist Katie Halper on why Tulsi is really running for President" . The Hill . August 30, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ "Krystal and Katie Halper dish on the biggest media screwups of 2019" . The Hill . December 31, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Rubin, Hannah (February 28, 2017). "She sets the Gold standard for comedy in the Bay Area" . J. The Jewish News of Northern California . Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
^ Marcotte, Amanda (March 31, 2020). "A woman accuses Joe Biden of sexual assault, and all hell breaks loose online. Here's what we know" . Salon.com . Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
^ Halper, Katie (March 31, 2020). "Tara Reade Tells Her Story" . Current Affairs . Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
^ Lerer, Lisa; Ember, Sydney (April 12, 2020). "Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden" . The New York Times . Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
^ Taibbi, Matt (August 20, 2019). "Welcome to 'Useful Idiots,' a New Rolling Stone Podcast" . Rolling Stone . Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
^ "Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper" . Apple Podcasts . Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
^ @mtaibbi (March 5, 2021). "The Useful Idiots Podcast is leaving the loving embrace of Rolling Stone, and will be moving to Substack, beginning next week. With a few fun tweaks, much the same show, and it will continue to be available across multiple podcast platforms. @kthalps" (Tweet ). Retrieved March 22, 2021 – via Twitter .
^ "Aaron Maté Joins Useful Idiots", Useful Idiots , January 4, 2022
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