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Michael Smerconish

Roles: Columnist

Michael A. Smerconish is an American radio and television personality, newspaper columnist, author and MSNBC Political Analyst. Smerconish's three daily nationally syndicated radio programs are heard on nearly 60 stations in the United States.

Smerconish has substituted for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor, Glenn Beck on his CNN Headline News television program, Chris Matthews on Hardball, and for Joe Scarborough on his former MSNBC show Scarborough Country. He is a regular contributor with MSNBC and writes separate weekly columns in the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Smerconish is a 1984 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehigh University where he majored in government and journalism. At age 29, he served as a federal housing coordinator in the Office of Housing and Urban Development of the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

He lives in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their four children.

Source: Wikipedia.org and Smerconish.com