Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April1968) is an American political reporter for the Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he became a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. He covered the 2000 US Presidential election and is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush--Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail. He also covered the 2004 US Presidential election in which, incidentally, both major candidates were fellow Bonesmen. When Vice President Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, Mister Milbank lampooned the incident by wearing an orange vest and hat on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, perhaps showcasing the sense of humor he refined at Yale University as a member of the Progressive Party. April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Skull and Bones is one of the secret societies based at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Map The U.S. presidential election of 2000 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. ... Presidential election results map. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
In July 2001, Milbank filed a pool report which managed to incense the White House.
Instead, Milbank responded by producing a series of even more grandiloquent memos.
A member of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones, in March 2004 Milbank allegedly confided to Washington gossip columnist Lloyd Grove: "I have been assigned to monitor all secret hand signals during the debates.