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Joshua Livestro
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He was a former assistant to European Union commissioner Frits Bolkestein. Livestro was active in the Edmund Burke Foundation, a conservative think tank. He writes a column about foreign affairs for De Telegraaf.
Livestro succeeded Ronald Plasterk as a columnist for the Sunday morning television talkshow Buitenhof.
Plasterk became an education and culture minister in the fourth Balkenende cabinet. The producers of Buitenhof fired Livestro after just four months, saying that his columns were subpar.
Plasterk answered that there was enough diversity in Dutch public television Livestro later wrote a longer account his experiences at Buitenhof for Pajamas Media.
On 25 November 2010, the Dutch daily newspaper National Research Council Handelsblad published an article which names Livestro an advisor to Sarah Palin.
Livestro confirmed the announcement by telephone from his home in Nottingham, England.
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Livestro read political science at Leiden University and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Livestro said in a Telegraaf op-ed that he was fired for his "right-wing views," that the show routinely ignores alternate viewpoints and even censures columnists" views. He also called one of the broadcaster of Buitenhof, the Net Promoter Score, a "left-wing funnel," where "a Deutsche Demokratische Republik mentality reigns." In wake of Livestro"s firing, political parties D66 and Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) asked parliamentary questions to the culture minister, Ronald Plasterk, who incidentally was Livestro"s predecessor at Buitenhof.
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