Bill Scher


Bill Scher is an American pundit and political analyst. He is a Contributing Editor to POLITICO Magazine, and a contributor to RealClearPolitics. 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.

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 and published his own book Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America. He later became an editor and writer for the Campaign for America's Future website OurFuture.org.

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" 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 and POLITICO Magazine. He defended his position in an appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell and later in a debate with Snowden's attorney Ben Wizner on MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki. He wrote articles critical of Bernie Sanders throughout the 2016 presidential primaries.