Bill Press

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name = Bill Press


caption = Bill Press, circa 2004
birth_date = 1940
birth_place = Wilmington, Delaware
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occupation = TV journalist, Syndicated Talk Radio Host, Political Commentator, Author, Politician| website = [http://www.billpress.com billpress.com]

Bill Press (born 1940) is a political commentator for Fox News and author. Press was the chair of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. He has served in different appointed positions such as a chief of staff to California State Sen. Peter Behr (a Republican) and director of the California Office of Planning and Research under Gov. Jerry Brown. However, the majority of his career has been spent as a political commentator.

Press started his broadcasting career in Los Angeles for TV stations KABC-TV and KCOP-TV. He is a former CNN and MSNBC political commentator, and an accomplished author. He is best known for co-hosting CNN's "The Spin Room" opposite Tucker Carlson, and "Crossfire" and MSNBC's "Buchanan and Press".

Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post". Press also contributes blogs to the online version of Washington, D.C.'s nonpartisan The Hill newspaper.

Radio talk show

Since September 2005, Press has been hosting a daily progressive syndicated talk radio program which is broadcast nationwide live from 6-9 AM ET. The show is syndicated by Dial Global. In addition to terrestrial stations, the show is heard on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 146 and XM Satellite Radio channel 167 America Left. In 2008, Press was ranked #96 in the Talkers Magazine Heavy 100. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Heavy 100 | date= | publisher= | url =http://66.227.50.219/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44 | work =Talkers Magazine | pages = | accessdate = 2008-04-21 | language = ]

Bibliography

*"Eyewitness : A California Perspective", 1988 (ISBN 0-939061-01-5)
*"Spin This: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth", with a foreword by Bill Maher, 2002 (ISBN 0-7434-4267-9)
*"Bush Must Go!- The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn't Deserve a Second Term", 2004 (ISBN 0-525-94840-6)
*"How The Republicans Stole Christmas: The Republican Party's Declared Monopoly on Religion and What Democrats Can Do to Take it Back", 2005 (ISBN 0-385-51605-3)
*"How The Republicans Stole Christmas: Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right", Doubleday, 2005. ISBN 978-0385-51605-1

References

External links

* [http://www.billpress.com/bio.html Personal Official Web Site] (direct link to bio page)
* [http://www.billpressshow.com Show's official Web Site]
* [http://www.jonesradio.com/NewsTalk/BillPress/index.html Jones Radio Page] for The Bill Press Show
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/ Press's Blog] at the Huffington Post
* [http://pundits.thehill.com/author/bill-press/ Bill Press's Pundits Blog entries for The Hill]