Michael Smerconish

Michael A. Smerconish (born March 15, 1962) is a  talk show host. He has a radio program on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. He has a television program on Cable News Network (CNN). He is a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the law firm Kline and Specter. Smerconish is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has often been a guest host for other talk show hosts. This includes Joe Scarborough of MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News Network.   

Smerconish had worked for the campaigns of Republicans in the past. He had voted Republican. In 2008, he said he would vote for the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He made this announcement on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. On August 20, 2009, Smerconish became the first talk radio host to broadcast live from the Obama White House. That show which included an interview with the President. The interview was held in the Diplomatic Reception Room. That is where President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats were held. The President took questions from Smerconish and his listeners on a variety of subjects. One subject was the recent debates on the pending Healthcare Reform Bill. Smerconish has interviewed Obama six other times.
In 2010, Smerconish said in the Huffington Post that he had switched his party registration from Republican to independent. When it was said that David Duke had been tied to Republican House leader Steve Scalise in the past, Smerconish interviewed Duke to discuss this.

Books

Smerconish has written several books. Two of them were on The New York Times Best Seller list. 

They are:
 Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11 (2004)
 Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism, True Stories that Should Be Fiction (2006)
 Murdered By Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice (2008)
 Morning Drive: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking (2009)
 Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker (2009)
 Talk: a Novel of Politics and the Media'' (2014)

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