Samuel Lincoln Seder was born on November 28,1966 and is an American actor, liberal political commentator, and media host.
23 Facts About Sam Seder
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Sam Seder earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Connecticut College and enrolled at Boston University School of Law.
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Sam Seder later dropped out to pursue a career in comedy.
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In March 2004, Sam Seder became co-host of Air America Radio's The Majority Report alongside Janeane Garofalo.
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Sam Seder was relegated to a Sunday show entitled Sam Seder on Sunday.
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Sam Seder occasionally substituted for Randi Rhodes when Rhodes was on Air America, as well as Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show on the Nova M Radio network.
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In November 2009, Sam Seder hosted a pilot for NBC of an American version of Have I Got News for You.
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In November 2010, Seder began an independent online podcast, called The Seder Channel.
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Sam Seder offers listeners different tiered levels of access to content around the show via crowdfunding platform Patreon.
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In late 2010, Sam Seder began occasionally serving as substitute host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann when Olbermann was on vacation.
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In December 2010, Sam Seder became co-host of the nationally syndicated progressive radio interview program Ring of Fire, co-hosted by Farron Cousins and Florida-based attorney Mike Papantonio.
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On September 1,2004, Sam Seder was briefly detained by the United States Secret Service during his live, on-site coverage of that year's Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.
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Shortly after Zell Miller gave his speech, Sam Seder began searching on the convention floor for a willing homosexual Republican to interview live on radio.
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Sam Seder later commented that his wearing of a lapel pin that he had been given by a Secret Service agent at the Democratic National Convention earlier that year had kept him from being ejected from the convention completely.
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On November 28,2017, American social media personality Mike Cernovich published a post on Medium that resurfaced a deleted tweet Sam Seder wrote in 2009 joking about convicted statutory rapist and fugitive film director Roman Polanski.
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Sam Seder then approached multiple journalists and news outlets, including MSNBC, to break the story.
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Sam Seder replied to Cockfield in an email explaining the point being made in the tweet and the context in which he wrote it.
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The next day, Sam Seder received a voicemail from Cockfield indicating MSNBC's upper management was seriously considering cutting ties with him.
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Sam Seder never received the email, leading him to believe that this employment status was still undecided.
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Sam Seder defended the tweet by pointing out that, taken in context of the current events around the time he posted it, it was a satiric response to a petition urging Polanski's release from detention in Switzerland.
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Seder noted that advertisers on The Majority Report with Sam Seder podcast were being contacted and pressured by Cernovich and his team to cut ties with the show over the tweet.
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Sam Seder revealed plans to use a portion of the GoFundMe proceeds to produce a three-minute video educating people on Cernovich's tactics.
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Over 12,000 people signed a petition protesting Sam Seder's termination, arguing that Cernovich had acted in malice and was deliberately mischaracterizing the tweet.