Katie Halper
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Born | Katherine Rose Halper July 11, 1980 or 1981 (age 42–43)[1][2] New York City, U.S. |
Education | Dalton School |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
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Years active | 2004–present |
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Website | katiehalper |
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
Early life and education
Halper was born in
Career
After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the
Comedy
She began her career performing as a stand-up comedian. She has performed comedy at venues including
Political activism
Halper is a national director of
Film
She was outreach director for
Halper's first film as director was entitled La Memoria es Vaga (2005), a documentary about the
Commentator
Articles by Halper have been published in
She has been featured as a commentator on
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
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
- 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
- ^ a b c d e "making politics laughable". Chelsea News NY. October 27, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- ^ @kthalps (July 10, 2018). "My birthday is 7/11. That's July 11" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "Deconstructed: The Journalist Censored for Defending Rashida Tlaib". The Intercept. October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- 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.
- 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 6, 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
External links
- Official website
- Katie Halper at IMDb