Michael Smerconish

Michael Smerconish: Talk Radio Host Without A Shout

Politico | PATRICK GAVIN | | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media


Michael Smerconish has been on the radio for years in Philadelphia, but he shot to national recognition on Aug. 20 when he broadcast his interview wit...

Instinct of an American Hero

Michael Smerconish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Michael Smerconish

The publication of Instinct will provide Jose Melendez-Perez, a true 9/11 hero, with the well-deserved recognition he's never had among the general populace.

I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

The Current Reforms Need People, Not Money

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

If you want healthcare you may have to take grief from the party-insiders in the area. Tough noogies. Guess what -- the Congresspeople need political cover to get this done. Make their knees stronger.

Sam Stein

Obama Smerconish Interview: "Guarantees" Reform, Still Open To GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


President Barack Obama guaranteed on Thursday that health care reform will be achieved, and he stuck by the public option as his preferred choice for ...

Tales from the Lobotomy Ward: The Stupidest Republican Talking Point I've Heard in a Long Time

David Sirota | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics


David Sirota

It's moronic for conservatives to believe that they will derail a proposed universal health care system by likening it to a program whose only problem is that the public loves it far too much.

Michael Smerconish Naked In Philadelphia Magazine To Promote Book

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media


Philadelphia-based talk radio host and cable news regular Michael Smerconish has posed naked for Philadelphia magazine in an ostensible attempt to dru...

Jason Linkins

Matthews, Hitchens Lead Stirring Fight Against Pro-Torture Views Of Michael Smerconish

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media


Cheers to MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, for their resolute opposition to Michael Smerconish's cockamamie embrace of i...

Newspapers That Backed Bush Shift To Obama

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


Two more papers that endorsed President Bush in 2004 backed Barack Obama on Sunday. Both papers hail from Texas: the Houston Chronicle and Austin Amer...

Sam Stein

Student Who Quizzed Palin On Pakistan: Her Handlers Are "Tyrannical"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics


Surprised (and upset) we missed this one. On Monday, Michael Smerconish, the never under-stated radio talk show host, had on his program the Temple Gr...

Jason Linkins

Rachel Maddow Leads Chorus Of Truth On 'Presumptuous' Accusation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


Maddow was invited to take the matter on, and she led with this statement -- "This issue is weird when you look at the facts on which it is based." And she couldn't be more right.

Jason Linkins

Resisting The Conventional Wisdom On Polls: It's Possible!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


My larger problem with the poll talk is that all the magical thinking and furtive suppositions seem to only apply to doomsaying in the direction of Barack Obama.

Michael Smerconish Substitutes For O'Reilly And Matthews On The Same Day

TVNewser | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media


A TVNewser emailer asks a very good question: "How in the world -- with this blood feud between O'Reilly and MSNBC is Michael Smerconish able to gues...

The Tora Bora Of The Mind

John Tomasic | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home


John Tomasic

Smerconish said that, as a Republican, he supported Obama's approach to the hunt for Bin Laden, that moving immediately on intelligence was not naive. And McCain, remarkably, conceded that he too agreed with Obama.

Barack Obama, Michael Smerconish Radio Interview: Pakistan, al Qaida, Iraq And Illegal Immigration

Huffington Post | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Today, Senator Obama gave an interview to Pennsylvania radio host Michael Smerconish. The focus of the interview was on foreign policy, specifically ...

Philly Columnist: Obama's Unique American Story

Philadelphia Inquirer | Michael Smerconish | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


I'm an avid reader, so chances are I would have gotten around to Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father sooner or later. I confess that I read it sooner...