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Matthew John "Matt" Labash (born 1970 or 1971) is an American author and journalist who is a senior writer at ''The Weekly Standard'', where his articles frequently appear. He is also a regular contributor to the ''Daily Caller''. He has been described as “one of the best long-form journalists working today.” P.J. O'Rourke has called him “Hunter S. Thompson on acid”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Simon&Schuster )〕 and the America's Future Foundation dubbed him “America’s greatest living treasure.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Americas Future )〕 Labash's pieces are noted for their wry, sardonic wit and their relative lack of political or ideological content, given their appearance in conservative publications. “I've never been a real hard-core political writer,” he has said. “I sort of live on the fringes and find stories that amuse me.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =ZFacts )〕 Joseph Y. Calhoun has written that “Matt Labash is not your typical ''Weekly Standard'' conservative dweeb writer. He’s witty, gritty and always finds the real story.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Alhambra Partners )〕 A left-wing contributor to ''L.A. Weekly'' commented: “I really do try not to read the ''Weekly Standard''. But every so often, Labash gives a reminder as to why, politics aside, he's a great magazine writer.”〔 Labash specializes in long-form, humorous reportage. Many of his pieces are profiles, often of crooked and disgraced politicians; others are accounts of offbeat conferences or portraits of cities on the skids, such as Detroit and New Orleans. In 2010, Simon and Schuster published a very well-received collection of his pieces entitled ''Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: and Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys''. ==Early life and education== His father was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, and Labash lived some of his childhood years in Germany.〔 He has described himself as a “military brat.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Fishbowl DC )〕 He attended Mount Olive Lutheran School in San Antonio from 1974 to 1979; Hahn Elementary School on Hahn Air Force Base from 1979 to 1980; and Gateway Christian High School in San Antonio from 1982 to 1986. He studied journalism at the University of New Mexico in, Albuquerque, New Mexico, graduating in 1993.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Classmates )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Labash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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