Sought after for his expertise on current events and cultural
matters, Hirsen has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, Weekend
Live with Tony Snow, Scarborough Country, Your World with Neil Cavuto,
The Big Story with John Gibson, CNN’s People in the News,
Fox and Friends, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the BBC, ABC’s Politically Incorrect,
CNN's Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff and Heartland w/ John Kasich,
CNN Headline News' Showbiz and
numerous other television programs. [For online video clips go to:
http://www.leftcoastreport.com]
Hirsen’s ideas have been quoted in major publications
including the Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, the
New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and the
London Times. He has interviewed numerous public figures including
Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, Bill O’Reilly, Dennis Miller, Jean Kirkpatrick,
Laurie Dhue, Peggy Noonan, Catherine Crier, Stephen Baldwin, Robert Davi,
David Brenner, Morgan Brittany, Jane Russell, Lawrence O’Donnell and
Joel Siegel.
Hirsen is a frequent guest on radio shows across the
country including Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Mancow Muller, G. Gordon
Liddy, Al Rantel, Dennis Prager, Janet Parshall, Michael Reagan, Roger
Hedgecock and Mark Larson. In addition, he hosts his own radio program
on the Cable Radio Network, which reaches millions of households via
cable television and satellite systems, Internet broadcasting and the
Langer Broadcasting Network, a 100-station radio network headquartered
in Boston.
Hirsen is a pundit for NewsMax.com and author of the
popular weekly column, The
Left Coast Report, where he takes a humorous poke at the politics
of Hollywood.
In his New York Times best-selling book, Tales
from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous
Politics , with its unprecedented debut and hopscotch
up the charts, Hirsen demonstrates just how huge the political gap between
the public and the left-leaners in Tinseltown really is.
In his latest book,
Hollywood Nation: Left Coast Lies, Old Media Spin, and the New Media
Revolution, Hirsen shows how Hollywood elites have been
blurring the lines between news and entertainment and reveals how the
New Media are leading the counterattack against the liberal assault from
East Coast newsrooms and Left Coast studios.
Hirsen teaches law at both Trinity Law School and Biola
University in Southern California. He is admitted to practice in the
California and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations, as well as the U.S.
Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Before setting his sights on the legal, communications and
publishing worlds, Hirsen worked as a professional musician. He participated in
numerous studio recordings, film scores and performance events, and for a number
of years was keyboardist for one of the most legendary groups of all times, the
Temptations.
Hirsen is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
The Recording Academy (NARAS) and the American Film Institute. He currently resides
in Newport Beach, California.
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