Contributor

Bob Cesca

Host of the Bob & Chez Show, Writer for Salon.com

E-mail: bob (at) bobcesca.com Podcast: www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca has been a featured contributor for The Huffington Post since August, 2005. Additionally, he's the host of the popular liberal podcast, The Bob Cesca Show (formerly the Bob & Chez Show), and he's a featured contributor at Salon.com and The Daily Banter. He's also a weekly guest on the Stephanie Miller Show and Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on Sirius XM 121. Bob is the Managing Editor at The Daily Banter. Network and radio appearances: Regular weekly guest on The Stephanie Miller Show and Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang. He's also appeared as an analyst on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Current TV, SkyTV, The Rachel Maddow Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Ed Schultz Show, MSNBC Live with Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks, The John Phillips Show - KABC Los Angeles, The Shannyn Moore Show, The Nicole Sandler Show, and The Jeff Farias Show. In March 2012, Bob made news when he published an exclusive about Rush (the band) pulling their music from the Rush Limbaugh Show. The story was picked up by Reuters, Billboard, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TMZ, MSNBC and Politico, among others. Bob grew up in Northern Virginia, just outside the Beltway. He graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in Political Science with a concentration on the media and the American Presidency. Bob is a self-educated historian and expert on the American Civil War, with a focus on both the battles as well as the racial and political backdrop of the war itself. When he's not writing about politics, Bob is also a screenwriter, director and producer, and the founder of Snark Rocket, a digital media production studio (formerly Camp Chaos). Bob has written and produced hundreds of animated shorts as well as music videos for Iron Maiden, Meat Loaf, Everclear, Yes and Motley Crue. He's also the creator of the politically charged animated sketch show ILL-ustrated which aired for two seasons on VH1 and MTV2. Shortly after 9/11, Bob directed the award-winning independent feature film, The War Effort, a satirical documentary about the nation's post-9/11 knee-jerk patriotism. The movie won Best Picture and the Audience Award at the Delta Film Festival in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also won the Audience Award at the Nodance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was an official selection at the Philadelphia Film Festival, where it ran as the closing night movie. During Bob's career in media, he's also served as a talk radio host, radio news reporter and freelance print journalist.