Karen Tumulty is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post.
Education
Tumulty graduated from David Crockett High School in Austin, Texas in May 1973. She later graduated in 1977 from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism with high honors. She is an alumna of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority.
She received an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1981.
Career
Before joining the Post, Tumulty wrote for Time from October 1994 to April 2010. She was a Congressional correspondent as well as the National Political Correspondent based in Washington District of Columbia for the magazine. She wrote for The Daily Texan student newspaper.
Tumulty is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she began her career in 1977 at the now-defunct San Antonio Light.
Tumulty spent 14 years with the Los Angeles Times, covering the United States Congress, economics, business, energy, and general-assignment beats. Tumulty joined Time in 1994.
She covered Congress for two years, during which time she reported and wrote the magazine"s 1995 "Manitoba of the Year" profile of Newt Gingrich. In 1996, she became a White House Correspondent, writing major stories on President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She became the National Political Correspondent in 2001.
In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Tumulty accused the campaign of Senator John McCain of "playing the race card" for a television ad criticizing the connections between Senator Barack Obama and Franklin Raines, the former Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae. Tumulty wrote that the ad displayed "sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman." The McCain campaign pointed out that they had also produced an ad criticizing the connections of Barack Obama to Jim Johnson, another former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer who is white. According to the McCain campaign, Tumulty did not correct her post, but responded with "I grew up in Texas.
I know what this stuff looks like." The McCain campaign has accused Tumulty of "hysterical liberal bias."
Besides her work in print journalism, she has appeared as a television/webcasting news analyst on the public affairs programs Washington Week on Public Broadcasting Service, Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, and Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News (as part of the "All-Star Panel").
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