Bill Scher

Bill Scher (born September 26, 1972) is an American pundit and political analyst. He is a Contributing Editor to POLITICO Magazine,[1] and a contributor to RealClearPolitics.[2] He also co-hosts "The DMZ," an online TV show with conservative pundit Matt Lewis on Bloggingheads.tv. Scher is an alumnus of Oberlin College.[3]

Bill Scher
Born (1972-09-26) September 26, 1972
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter, Television Host
Years active2002—present

Early career

Bill Scher founded LiberalOasis.com in 2002. In 2004, he became a regular commentator for Air America Radio's The Majority Report hosted by Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo. In 2006, he contributed a chapter to the book Proud To Be Liberal[4] and published his own book Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America (Rodale, 2006).[5] He later became an editor and writer for the Campaign for America's Future website OurFuture.org.[6]

Positions

Scher has been known to take positions that are controversial within liberal circles. In 2012, he published a New York Times op-ed titled "How Liberals Win"[7] which argued that liberals should treat "corporate power as a force to bargain with, not an enemy to vanquish". After the Edward Snowden leaks, he defended the record of the National Security Agency from a liberal perspective in essays for The Week[8] and POLITICO Magazine.[9] He defended his position in an appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell[10] and later in a debate with Snowden's attorney Ben Wizner on MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki.[11] He wrote articles critical of Bernie Sanders throughout the 2016 presidential primaries.[12][13]

gollark: Ooh, that'd be a fun and insanely stupid project, traversing the entire system environment for coroutines and messing them up.
gollark: How would that *help*?
gollark: What mean you?
gollark: Ah, well. I kind of got around that.
gollark: What if you want to run a program which is in a VFS but not as StarTup?

References
  1. "Garrett Graff named editor of Politico Mag – Poynter". poynter.org. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  2. "Bill Scher | Author | RealClearPolitics". realclearpolitics.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  3. "Bloggingheads.tv". bloggingheads.tv. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  4. "Proud To Be Liberal: Robert Lasner, Elizabeth Clementson: 9780975251768: Amazon.com: Books". Archived from the original on 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  5. results, search; Garofalo, Janeane; Seder, Sam (19 September 2006). "Wait! Don't Move to Canada: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America". Rodale Books. Retrieved 28 August 2018 – via Amazon.
  6. "Bill Scher". ourfuture.org. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  7. "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  8. "The liberal case for high-tech NSA surveillance". theweek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  9. "The Liberal Case for the NSA - POLITICO Magazine". politico.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  10. "The liberal case for NSA surveillance | MSNBC". msnbc.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  11. "Edward Snowden: Patriot or traitor? | MSNBC". msnbc.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  12. "Bernie's Failed Revolution: How Sanders Fell Short of Changing the Democratic Party - POLITICO Magazine". politico.com. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  13. "Is Sanders 2016 Becoming Nader 2000? How Bernie Could Cost Hillary the Election - POLITICO Magazine". politico.com. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
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