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Kersten vs Kushner

submitted by Max Sparber

Jul 20 2009 — 12:52pm

Tad Simons from MSPmag points out that Strib columnist Katherine Kersten has taken issue with the Guthrie for showcasing Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, calling him “one of the nation’s foremost peddlers” of hate speech. What the cause of this? A piece in the Nation, authored by Kushner in 1998, in response to the Matthew Shepard murder.

Simons doesn’t have much patience for Kersten: In paraphrasing Kushner, Kersten stripped away all the essay’s nuance and logic, leaving nothing but the raw viscera of Kushner’s anger—and she did this because her objective was to portray Kushner as an unreasonable, hysterical bigot.

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Latest comment — cubbie: Cubbie have you ever read anything Kushner has ever written or produced? sure.  my comments were regarding his piece in The Nation.  whi...

Kersten crawls back under her rock

submitted by acalhoun

Jan 12 2009 — 10:04am

Katherine Kersten filed her last column today. Happy happy joy joy? Who will expose the virulent pinkos lusting after our children? Who will see into the hearts of the militant, gay-loving, Jesus-hating, Communists who live in the center cities?

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Latest comment — jeffk: I understand that focusing on her (lack of) attractiveness rather than her (loathsome) ideas is at least mildly sexist, but the reason it happens i...

Kersten Digs Up Old Feud

submitted by Matt Bartel

Dec 19 2008 — 11:28am

In a blog post Wednesday, Katherine Kersten dug up a January 2007 Rake profile by Brian Lambert, using it as an example of how liberal media meanies have always been out to get her and ultimately led to her downfall.  Lambert responded by saying that he’s sorry the strib dumped Kersten (and Coleman) instead of C.J..

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Latest comment — rickblank: So, any bets as to when the Strib follows the lead of the Detroit papers and cuts back to three-a-week?