Ken Rudin is an American

United States

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 radio journalist. As the political editor

Editing

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 for National Public Radio (NPR), he is involved with political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also cohosts a weekly podcast

Podcast

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 called It's All Politics, a segment called "The Political Junkie" on the NPR program Talk of the Nation

Talk of the Nation

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and writes a column of the same name for npr.org. During the 1960s, Rudin began collecting campaign buttons, he now has a collection of more than 70,000 campaign items.

Childhood

Rudin was born in the Bronx, where he attended P.S. 64, J.H.S. 82 and William Howard Taft High School. After high school he moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee, New Jersey

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.

Hillary Clinton comment

During the 2008 presidential primary campaign

Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008

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, Rudin attracted criticism for comparing Senator Hillary Clinton with Glenn Close

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's character Alex Forrest in the movie Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction

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during an appearance on CNN's Sunday Morning

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. Of Senator Clinton, he said, like Close's character, "she’s going to keep coming back, and they’re not going to stop her." In response to this Rudin was featured in the Worst Persons In The World segment on MSNBC

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's Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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. Rudin later apologized.

External links

• It's All Politics - Ken Rudin's weekly podcast with Ron Elving.
• The Political Junkie - Ken Rudin's Political blog on NPR.org