Mollie Hemingway

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway (b. circa 1974)[1] is an American conservative columnist and political commentator.[2] She is a senior editor at the online magazine The Federalist and a contributor for Fox News. [3] Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, CNN, RealClearPolitics, and National Review.[4][5]

Early life and education

Mollie Ziegler was born in Denver, Colorado. Her father is a retired pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and her mother is a retired schoolteacher. She earned a degree in economics at the University of Colorado.[6]

Political commentary

Her first job in political commentating was at the weekly trade magazine Radio and Records, which she described as, "an answer-the-phone and get-coffee kind of job, you know, take the faxes off the fax machine type of thing".[6] In 2002, she moved to Gannett Publishing, where she worked at the Federal Times. She describes how her work there helped her shape her political views, writing about big government and its "waste, fraud and mismanagement".[6]

Ziegler married Mark Hemingway, a senior writer for The Weekly Standard who also worked as a freelance writer, contributing to many publications including the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Ricochet, particularly writing about religion-related topics, and who was one of the founding members of The Federalist.[6] On March 26, 2017, it was announced that Fox News had signed her as a contributor.[7][8]

Views

Politico described Hemingway as a "a reliably pro-Trump commentator,"[9] while Salon called her The Federalist's "most reliable Trump defender."[10] Hemingway herself, meanwhile, writing in the Washington Post, says of her own view of Trump:

Trump was not my first or even second choice for president, but a full two years ago I predicted he would win. I also predicted he’d be a progressive president, which explained why I was not among his supporters and why I am so pleased now. [11]

In May 2017, Hemingway defended Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.[12] In July 2017, after Comey testified to Congress, Hemingway questioned Comey's character, saying "this is not a choir boy here. [Comey] could teach masterclasses in how to cover your own behind and engage in typical Washington, DC shenanigans."[13]

In February 2018, she suggested that Carter Page, a former Trump campaign advisor who had been subject to intelligence surveillance since 2014, had his civil liberties violated.[14] Hemingway warned, "if the civil rights and civil liberties of Carter Page can be violated, they can be violated for anyone."[14] Page, who had murky relationships with Russia and unusually pro-Putin views, had been the subject of attempted recruitment by Russian intelligence since 2013.[14]

In May 2018, Hemingway claimed that the FBI spied on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and said that this was "unprecedented and scandalous".[15] Hemingway's claims were retweeted by President Trump.[15] Vox countered Hemingway, stating that while an FBI informant did meet with several Trump campaign advisers, the FBI didn't actually intend to spy on Trump, but was instead "most likely part of a legitimate counterintelligence operation targeted at Russia’s election interference campaign..."[16]

Reception

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank criticized conservative panelists, including Hemingway, for concluding in a discussion that marriage is good for women.[17] Hemingway responded with her own column, "Dana Milbank Is Incoherent On Marriage". Hemingway wrote another column later that year criticizing Milbank, “Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Dana Milbank".[6]

New York Times writer Ana Marie Cox characterizes Hemingway as "no fan of Donald Trump", despite writing for conservative publication The Federalist. Cox characterized Hemingway as surprisingly open on issues of marriage and sexuality for a conservative Christian, saying she "sound[s] a little bit like a feminist in talking about sex..." [18]

Charlotte Hays of the Independent Women's Forum described her as "a lightning rod in the debates about feminism and religious liberty" and, "a big deal in conservative-leaning intellectual circles of the nation’s capital."[19]

References

  1. ↑ New York Times: "Mollie Hemingway Hates How Feminists Talk About Sex" by Ana Marie Cox June 9, 2016
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "Fox News signs Federalist's Mollie Hemingway". The Hill. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  4. ↑ "Mollie Hemingway, Author at The Federalist". The Federalist. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  5. ↑ "Mollie Hemingway | Author | RealClearPolitics". www.realclearpolitics.com. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Meet Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, scourge of lazy journalists". Rare. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  7. ↑ Concha, Joe (March 27, 2017). "Fox News signs Federalist's Mollie Hemingway". The Hill.
  8. ↑ The Federalist Staff (March 27, 2017). "Fox News Signs Mollie Hemingway As A Contributor". The Federalist.
  9. ↑ "How Trump Blew Up the Conservative Media". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  10. ↑ Sheffield, Matthew. "Roy Moore, the Federalist and the decay of the conservative mind". www.salon.com. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  11. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wasnt-a-trump-supporter-i-am-now/2018/01/19/58abd43a-fca2-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?noredirect=on
  12. ↑ "How the Right and Left Reacted to Comey's Firing". The New York Times. 2017-05-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  13. ↑ "Why even Fox News didn't really defend Trump against Comey's testimony". Vox. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  14. 1 2 3 "The Happy Martyrdom of Carter Page". The New York Times. 2018-02-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  15. 1 2 Greenwood, Max (2018-05-29). "Trump: I shouldn't be focusing on 'rigged Russia witch hunt'". TheHill. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  16. ↑ https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17380212/spygate-trump-russia-spy-stefan-halper-fbi-explained
  17. ↑ Milbank, Dana (2014-03-31). "Dana Milbank: Conservatives to women: Lean back". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
  18. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/mollie-hemingway-hates-how-feminists-talk-about-sex.html
  19. ↑ Hays, Charlotte. "IWF – Portrait of a Modern Feminist: Mollie Hemingway". www.iwf.org. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
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