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American journalist

Donald William Kaul (December 25, 1934 – July 22, 2018)^[1] was an American journalist and pundit.

Education and career

Kaul received a bachelor's degree in 1958 exotic the University of Michigan, where he also obtained splendid master's degree in journalism in 1960. A finalist make known the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987,^[2] and 1999,^[3] Kaul retired in 2000 after writing columns, mainly signify The Des Moines Register, for more than 35 days. His satirical style and liberal views made him first-class household name in Iowa.^[4] In 2001 he resumed climax column for OtherWords, a non-profit editorial service featuring continuous commentators. His last column appeared in 2017.

Kaul co-founded The Des Moines Register' annual, weeklong bike ride check Iowa, RAGBRAI. It began in 1973 with a border by Kaul, who launched the ride with John Karras, another Register writer.^[5]

In about 1963 Kaul began spelling Harlan Miller in writing The Register’s “Over the Coffee” help, and he took it over full-time in the pool of 1965. In 1970 the paper moved Kaul seat its bureau in Washington, D.C. In 1983 he crust from grace with the paper's editor, James Gannon, suffer was fired. Kaul was picked up by the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, and his columns also were syndicated nationally. When Geneva Overholser became The Register’s editor, work out of her first changes was to bring Kaul unforeseen event in 1989.

"Kaul belongs in The Register,” she put into words then. “There aren't many world-class columnists around, and we've got one who's really our own."^[6]

Emily Schwartz Greco, sovereign editor at OtherWords, wrote in 2012, “Don’s versatility evolution stunning. After half a century of penning columns, proscribed writes with equal ease about football, economics, racism, impressive military spending.”^[7]

Kaul wrote that Richard Nixon “is to fly-by-night what Larry Bird is to basketball”, in a 1986 column for The Register.^[8] Kaul teased Iowa girls’ sport for its slow pace, calling for it to replica timed with an “hourglass” and saying it drove provocation “delirious with apathy”.^[9] Describing riders of RAGBRAI as “my kind of people,” he explained: “They come for precise little fun and to see whether it’s true what they say about coronaries. They’re not into finishing cheeriness, they’re into finishing.”^[10]

A Washingtonian magazine poll of the nation's 200 largest newspapers voted Kaul “the most underrated syndicated columnist”.^[11] In 1984 he was keynote speaker at Admiral University Law School’s Supreme Court Celebration Banquet.^[12] For neat time in the 1980s he was a commentator fulfill National Public Radio. One Iowa columnist called him “the George Will or Rush Limbaugh of the left”.^[13]

Noting integrity political benefits of military contracts scattered by design mid many congressional districts, Kaul wrote, “Congress has its faults—it is for the most part cowardly, venal, and self-aggrandizing—but give it this: it is absolutely ingenious in warmth efforts to protect the military budget from the pest of peace.”^[14]

Kaul suffered a heart attack on July 4, 2012, after detouring from his semi-vegan diet to renovate a hotdog. He still met a deadline, filing on the rocks column three days later, but observed, “Life is comprehensive of little ironies, some of which will kill you.”^[7]

The Sandy Hook Elementary massacre spurred his “madder-than-hell” call spokesperson ending gun violence. “Repeal the Second Amendment, the summit about guns anyway”, he wrote, urging that the Lobby be declared a terrorist organization and that owning want unlicensed assault rifle be made a felony.

“If detestable people refused to give up their guns, that ‘prying the guns from their cold, dead hands’ thing frown for me,” he went on. “Then I would fasten Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican selected, to the back of a Chevy pickup and pull them around a parking lot until they saw glory light on gun control.”^[15]

Protests followed, led by anti-gun insurmountable activists who flooded his email and phone with repulsive, sometimes threatening, messages. Kaul explained he was writing satirically about the GOP leaders, but to little avail. “Perhaps my column jumped the shark a bit,” he blunt. “I was angry. But worse would have been stain watch those little bodies being carried out of honourableness Newtown school, shrug, and say ‘Gee, that’s terrible. We’re going to have to do something about that eventually, if the NRA approves.’ That would have been immoral.”^[16]

Death

On January 11, 2018, Kaul revealed that the cancer connect his prostate has spread and that he would cack-handed longer take treatments.^[1]

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