a "lightweight reporter" who is a "total joke in political circles". Over the previous week Trump had been alluding to a "very, very major" surprise for the 2012 Republican National Convention that would be "unique and interesting". Pareene had written that Trump's surprise "is almost definitely just going to be some idiotic video where Trump 'fires' [a Barack Obama] impersonator." One day later, Obama impersonator Kevin Michel posted on his Twitter feed a picture of himself with Trump and advised his followers to "watch the Republican National Convention", prompting some news outlets to conjecture that Trump was upset that Pareene had accurately predicted his surprise. When interviewed by Politico about Trump's criticism, Pareene responded, "I was hoping the first universally loathed NBC personality to publicly call me out would be the monkey from Animal Practice, but I'll settle for Trump." Books A Tea People's History, 2 October 2011, 49 pages, Salon Media Group, The Rude Guide To Mitt, 17 April 2012, 51 pages, Salon Media Group, See also Ana Marie Cox Maureen O'Connor Nick Denton References External links Buck Hill, Pareene's first blog American bloggers American political writers American male non-fiction writers Living people American online journalists Salon (website) people 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male bloggers Year of birth missing (living people) South High School (Minnesota) alumni