Bill Press

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Bill Press (born 1940) is a political commentator and author.

**Bill Press**
Born:	1940 Wilmington, Delaware
Occupation:	TV journalist, Syndicated Talk Radio Host, Political Commentator, Author, Politician
Website:	www.billpress.com

Bill 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 liberal 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.

[edit] Radio talk show

Since September 2005, Press has been hosting a daily progressive syndicated talk radio program which is broadcast in twenty three markets (including some Air America Radio affiliates, although the program is syndicated by Jones Radio Networks, not directly by AAR), as well as nationally on Sirius Satellite Radio:

USA & Canada - Sirius Left 146 http://www.sirius.com/siriusleft
Asheville, NC - WPEK 880 AM
Brattleboro, VT WKVT 1490 AM
Buffalo, NY - WWKB 1520 AM
Charlottesville, VA - WVAX 1450 AM
Chattanooga, Tennessee - WDOD 1310 AM
Chicago, IL - WCPT 850 AM
Daytona Beach, Florida - WPUL 1590 AM
Eureka, California - KGOE 1480 AM
Grand Rapids, MI - WTKG 1230 AM
Ithaca, NY - WNYY 1470 AM
Little Rock, Arkansas - KXDE 1380 AM
Los Angeles, California - KTLK 1150 AM
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota - KTNF KTNF 950 AM
Missoula, Montana - KKNS 105.9 FM
Monterey, California -KRXA 540 AM - KRXA 540 AM
New Orleans, Louisiana - WSMB 1350 AM
Oakland, California - KQKE - KQKE 960 AM
Phoenix, Arizona - KPHX (AM) - KPHX 1480 AM (Air America affiliate)
Rochester, NY - WROC 950 AM
Sacramento, California - KCTC 1320 AM
San Diego, California - KLSD 1360 AM
Washington, DC - WWRC 1260 AM

The show is broadcast 6 AM - 9 AM Eastern Time

One of the favorite features on the show is the Crap You Haven't Heard segment. Bill Press gets lots of Crap from his Crap Master, Crap Master Chris from San Jose, California. He made his debut in June with his story about the man who stuffed the seven calves inside his Dodge Neon in Canton, NY. Bill also has Culture Vulture Karel as well as Latino correspondent Mario Solis-Marich.

[edit] Bibliography

Eyewitness : A California Perspective, 1988 (ISBN 0-939061-01-5)
Spin This: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth, with a forward 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)