David Weiner is a Contributing Editor at the
Huffington Post
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. He was formerly the New York Editor and Blog Editor for the site.
As a Huffington Post
blog
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ger, Weiner broke the "Recipegate" scandal in which Senator
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms ...
's wife,
Cindy McCain
Cindy Lou McCain (; born May 20, 1954) is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian. McCain has served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture since November 5, 2021. She is the widow of U.S. Senat ...
, was found to have plagiarized "family recipes" for the McCain campaign website during the
2008 United States presidential election
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.
Cindy McCain would later go on ''
The View'' to defend herself.
In 2009, Weiner and Sarah Greenwalt launched National Fist Bump Day.
References
HuffPost writers and columnists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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