Amanda Carpenter (born November 20, 1982^[a]) is an American author, political advisor, and speechwriter. She is a former senior staffer to Senators Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz. She was a columnist for The Washington Times from 2009 to 2010 and regularly appears as a political contributor on CNN.

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Early life and education[edit]

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Carpenter grew up in Montrose, Michigan.^[1] She graduated from Ball State University with a B.A. in Communication Studies in 2005.^[2][1][3]

Career in media and politics[edit]

Carpenter worked as a congressional correspondent for Human Events from 2005 to 2007 before going to Townhall.com to become its national political reporter.^[4]

In March 2009, Carpenter took a position with The Washington Times,^[5] where she wrote a daily column called the Hot Button that covered political and cultural issues as well other news articles.^[6]

In early 2010, Carpenter left The Washington Times and joined Senator Jim DeMint's staff as senior communications advisor and speechwriter.^[3][7]

In January 2013, Carpenter became senior communications advisor and speechwriter for Senator Ted Cruz.^[8][1]

In July 2015, Carpenter returned to her journalism career.^[9] She is a contributor for CNN.^[10] She is known for critiquing President Trump, in particular his treatment of women.^[10] Carpenter has said that she agrees with some of his policy decisions, but that the scandals surrounding his presidency make it 'very difficult' to defend him.^[10] In her 2018 book Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us, she critiques Trump's propensity for lying.^[11][12][13]

Carpenter is also known as a blogger, author, and commentator. She has made numerous media appearances, including segments on the BBC; Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, Hannity & Colmes, and The Big Story; MSNBC's Tucker; PBS's To the Contrary and CNN's Larry King Live and Reliable Sources.^[14] Her book The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton was published in 2006.^[14][15] She later wrote about the 2008 presidential election for Glamour magazine's blog 'Glamocracy.'^[14][15] Shazam iphone control center.

Carpenter is a Republican.^[16]

Publications[edit]

• The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Regnery Publishing. 2006. ISBN978-1-59698-014-3.
• Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us. Broadside Books. 2018. ISBN978-0-06274-800-3.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abCarpenter's birthday is November 20.^[17] She was 31 years old on February 26, 2014.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdSanchez, Humberto (February 26, 2014). 'Amanda Carpenter Is Ted Cruz's Twitter Torrent'. Roll Call. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
2. ^Carpenter, Amanda. 'Amanda Carpenter'. LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
3. ^ ^abWeigel, David (January 25, 2010). 'DeMint Hires Amanda Carpenter'. The Washington Independent. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013.
4. ^'Amanda Carpenter'. Townhall. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
5. ^Dornic, Matt (February 5, 2009). 'Townhall's Amanda Carpenter to Washington Times'. Mediabistro.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-12. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
6. ^'Amanda Carpenter'. WashingtonTimes.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2010. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
7. ^@amandacarpenter (January 25, 2010). 'And the big news is..I'm leaving TWT to join Sen. DeMint's staff as senior communications advisor and speechwriter' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. ^@amandacarpenter (January 22, 2013). 'Thrilled to announce I'm starting my new job today as Senator Cruz's senior communications advisor and speechwriter!' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
9. ^Lesniewski, Niels (June 9, 2015). 'Amanda Carpenter Leaving Ted Cruz World'. Roll Call. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
10. ^ ^abcEvans, Garrett (2018-05-17). 'For cable commentators, the 2016 GOP primary never ended'. TheHill. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
11. ^Lewis, Matt (2018-05-07). 'The Damage of Trump's Low-Bar Presidency Is Worse Than You Think'. The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
12. ^Bilton, Nick. 'The Conservative Case Against Donald Trump'. The Hive. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
13. ^'Amanda Carpenter, 'Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us' (Broadside, 2018) |'. newbooksnetwork.com. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
14. ^ ^abcCarpenter, Amanda (December 10, 2007). 'Glamocracy'. Glamocracy (blog). Glamour. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
15. ^ ^abMaltz, Phoebe (February 2012). 'What's Your Story?—Amanda Carpenter'. AmericasFuture.org. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
16. ^'Amanda Carpenter, 'Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us' (Broadside, 2018) |'. www.audible.com. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
17. ^@amandacarpenter (November 20, 2009). 'Yay, it's my birthday. Another year wiser!' (Tweet). Archived from the original on March 31, 2016 – via Twitter.

External links[edit]

• Amanda Carpenter on Facebook
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Articles by Amanda Carpenter on Townhall
• Video discussions in which Amanda Carpenter has taken part via Bloggingheads.tv

David Axelrod has a clear memory of the roasted turkey leg he received in a care package at the White House.

“It was the size of a war club,” he said.

A friend had shipped it to Axelrod, then senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He figured Axelrod missed the Wednesday Turkey Leg special offered by Manny’s Deli in Chicago, the city that forged Axelrod’s and Obama’s political destinies.

President Obama walked in to find Axelrod digging into the hometown treat. “What is this?” Obama said. “King Arthur’s court? What’s going on here?”

These days, Axelrod is taking his nostalgia for Manny’s public, trying to drum up support and customers for an institution hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pre-pandemic, Manny’s business was approximately 80% dine-in, 20% takeout. The pandemic obliterated dine-in overnight. So far, the deli has managed to survive by making daily deliveries to pickup locations in the suburbs, and gradually opening the restaurant to a limited amount of customers. Its retail corned beef line at Midwest Costcos remains successful. But Raskin worries that these measures might not be enough to keep the restaurant afloat.

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Across the country, more than 12,000 restaurants have permanently closed due to mounting costs, lack of revenue, and an uncertain future that has frightened off investors. The website Eater Chicago keeps a running list of permanent restaurant closures in the city. No place is immune.

So, when Manny’s Deli recently launched a social media campaign to drum up customer orders amidst their coronavirus-induced financial downturn, Axelrod was quick to publicly express his support on Twitter.

“Manny’s is a Chicago institution,” he tweeted, “I’ve been going there for forty years to clog my arteries and clear my head! If you’re looking for a great deli in and around Chicago, give ‘em a try! Food is delicious!!”

Turkey leg size aside, the location of Manny’s, 1141 S. Jefferson Street, helps explain part of its appeal to Chicago political mavens including Axelrod, Obama himself, and former Mayor (after a turn as White House Chief of Staff) Rahm Emanuel.

Manny’s sits just a stone’s throw from the heart of downtown Chicago’s skyscrapers and hulking municipal buildings, but also straddles the divide between the North Side and South Side that defines what remains a changing but arguably still-segregated urban landscape.

Far from a no-man’s-land, this dividing line was once home to a notable Chicago institution: the vibrant outdoor-indoor bazaar known as the Maxwell Street Market. This is the place in The Blues Brothers where John Lee Hooker performs to a throng of onlookers, and the place that gave its name to Chicago’s topping-stuffed all-beef Maxwell Polish sausage.

It was a mercantile reef of largely and historically Jewish-owned businesses and stores that, in addition to its Ashkenazic immigrant vendors, long served as a melting pot of Black, white, Latinx, Caribbean, and Asian customers. The general commercial zone of Roosevelt Road was colloquially and controversially known as “Jew-town” to many Chicago citizen-patrons.

The Maxwell Street Market is gone, but Manny’s, founded nearby in 1942, remains at the nexus of the city’s politicos, journalists, moguls and workaday everybodies. With the majority of Chicago’s Jewish deli food now located in the suburbs or the far-North Rogers Park, Manny’s is one of the last remaining eateries of its kind within Chicago.

“I was introduced to Manny’s by a fellow reporter when I started at The Chicago Tribune in 1976, and we used to go there two or three times a week,” Axelrod said. “It was a quick trip from the Tribune on Lower Wacker to Manny’s. That was in the days when I could knock off a bowl of matzah ball soup and a corned beef sandwich with no feeling of heaviness. It’s a little tougher these days. I’ve been going there ever since, so, 44 years.”

Axelrod discovered Manny’s after he spent his formative deli years in New York’s Stuyvesant Town neighborhood. He recalls meals at Katz’s on the Lower East Side, the late and lamented Stage Deli, and Jersey City’s Greenspan’s.

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“I remember Greenspan’s really well because my mother had like 16 aunts and uncles, some ridiculous number, so there were a fair number of funerals growing up,” he said. “At the shiva, there was always a deli plate from Greenspan’s. It was only years later that I learned that tongue was actually a tongue.”

Having been raised on a steady diet of notable New York delis, for Axelrod it was “such a revelation to find Manny’s, because there aren’t that many great delis in Chicago.”

Manny’s was a place where Axelrod could sit and get some work done, and also meet other politicians to talk shop.

“There were plenty of days when I’d just call people up and say, ‘I need to think something through, let’s meet at Manny’s,” Axelrod said. “It was like a clubhouse.”

The restaurant’s familial atmosphere sometimes inspired fellow patrons to approach Axelrod to say hello.

“Often they want to straighten me out, or give me what they believe are their truer insights about politics,” he said. “But, it’s all good, it’s fun. And, it’s a great place to commune with people.”

Up until the pandemic, Manny’s remained a gathering place for a wide array of Chicagoans, with Jewish food the hearty and comforting medium.

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“We’re a Jewish deli where the majority of our customers aren’t Jewish,” said Dan Raskin, Manny’s current and fourth-generation owner-operator.

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That diverse spectrum of Chicago’s population made Manny’s a worthwhile campaign stop.

“You have a great cross-section of people from all walks of life, all different communities,” said Axelrod. “They all gather at Manny’s. There are a lot of tables and a lot of hands to shake.”

Axelrod is hopeful he’ll be able to return to his favorite table. Raskin, too, misses his regular customers and seeing family and friends gathering around his tables for comfort food and conversation.

“The most important thing is the staff,” said Raskin. Opening a vsd file. “It’s just important to be able to keep our staff employed, and to feed their families.”