PHIL DONAHUE - JOURNALIST-TALK HOST

TV TALKSHOW PIONEER PHIL DONAHUE (WITH WIFE, MARLO THOMAS)

Phil originated his trendsetting talkshow format in Dayton @ WDTN. He's culturally Irish Catholic, divorced and remarried.

From CelebAtheists
From an article in The American Prospect titled 'Nader TV: Jeremy Lott explains why MSNBC's recent hire of Phil Donahue is less stupid than you might think.':

After all, consider Donahue's actual politics. For one, he's a pious atheist, a viewpoint represented nowhere in the cable news media. Indeed, in a 2000 interview in The Progressive, he was still bragging about introducing the world to the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Similarly, he campaigned for Ralph Nader in 2000, complaining of the stranglehold of "corporate power" on the political process. Whatever you may think of this particular brand of politics, like atheism it's not well represented in the small world of cable news.