Bill Scher

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[4] and published his own book Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America (Rodale, 2006).[5] He later became an editor and writer for the Campaign for America's Future website OurFuture.org.[6]

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"[7] 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[8] and POLITICO Magazine.[9] He defended his position in an appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell[10] and later in a debate with Snowden's attorney Ben Wizner on MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki.[11] He wrote articles critical of Bernie Sanders throughout the 2016 presidential primaries.[12][13]