21 Facts About Todd Herman

Todd Herman is an American radio show host, digital political strategist, and public speaker.

Todd Herman hosted The Todd Herman Show on KTTH in Seattle and was a regular rotating host on The Rush Limbaugh Show.

Todd Herman was co-chief digital strategist for the Republican National Committee 2009 to 2011, and founded several media companies before being a conservative talk radio host.

Todd Herman was based in Salt Lake City before moving to Seattle in 1999, when it had 22 staff members.

Todd Herman then joined Microsoft's MSN, and was involved in the creation of its MSN Video business unit.

Todd Herman held the position of Streaming Media Evangelist at MSNBC.

Todd Herman was founder and chief creative officer for SpinSpotter, a software add-on designed to detect "personal voice, passive voice, biased source, disregarded context, selective disclosure, lack of balance and over-reliance on news releases" in journalism.

In March 2009, after leaving Microsoft, Todd Herman was hired as Director of New Media for the Republican National Committee, taking up the job the following month.

In 2010, Todd Herman posted a personal tweet suggesting that President Barack Obama was a Muslim; the RNC distanced itself from Todd Herman's tweet.

Todd Herman co-founded Crowdverb, a social media monitoring startup, in 2011; it was acquired in 2012 by Washington, DC-based Direct Impact, a unit of Burson-Marsteller.

In September 2015, Todd Herman became afternoon host at the Seattle conservative talk radio station KTTH in Seattle when Ben Shapiro left the slot open.

At KTTH Todd Herman worked alongside other conservative talk show hosts David Boze and Michael Medved.

In January 2019 Herman became co-host of The Candy, Mike and Todd Show on KIRO; the program replaced the Ron and Don Show, which had aired for 13 years.

Todd Herman has expressed support for the "FairTax," a proposal to abolish income and payroll taxes and replace them with a flat sales tax.

Todd Herman filled in regularly as a guest host on the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show.

In January 2021, while a guest host on Limbaugh's show, Todd Herman suggested that the perpetrators of the US Capitol attack might have been "Antifa" or "BLM".

Subsequently, in late February 2021, Todd Herman acknowledged that "it was clear a large group of Trump supporters entered the Capitol and assaulted people" but continued to make the claim that antifa activists had planned to impersonate Trump supporters.

Todd Herman announced his retirement from his KTTH show in November 2021, with the intent to launch a podcast afterward.

In October 2022 Radio America signed a new distribution and sales agreement with Herman's daily podcast and a new weekly Todd Herman Radio Show to launch November 5,2022.

In January 2023 Todd Herman was added to the line-up of the Seattle talk radio station KVI with a show running Sundays 5 to 7 pm plus daily commentary segments for other KVI shows.

Todd Herman considers himself a "college dropout" and a "lifetime Washingtonian".