Mike Gallagher Biography
Mike Gallagher is an American political commentator, Author, television host, and radio personality working for Fox News Channel as a guest host and contributor. He also works at Salem Radio Networks serving as the host of a nationally syndicated radio program on The Mike Gallagher Show.
Mike Gallagher Age
Gallagher is 63 years old as of 2023. He was born on 7th April 1960 in Dayton, Ohio, and celebrates his birthday every year on the 7th of April.
Mike Gallagher Height
Gallagher stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 8 inches.
Mike Gallagher Family
Gallagher has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Gallagher has any siblings.
Mike Gallagher Wife
Gallagher was happily married to Denise Newlen in 1994 and she later passed on because of endometrial cancer in 2008. The couple had been blessed with four children.
Mike Gallagher’s Net Worth
Gallagher has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million which he has earned through his successful career as a political commentator, Author, television host, and radio personality.
Mike Gallagher Education
Gallagher attended Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton, Ohio where he graduated in 1978. While there, he was an active member of the school band and chorus, theater, and school TV and radio station. Later, he attended both the University of Dayton and Wright State University where he graduated with bachelors degrees.
Mike Gallagher Radio Career
Gallagher works for Salem Radio Networks as a nationally syndicated radio program host on The Mike Gallagher Show. He has been working for the station since November 2021. His radio talk show is the ninth most listened to in the United States. It has been in the top 100 for eleven consecutive years talk show most influential host according to Talkers magazine.
The Mike Gallagher Show started in 1998 and was launched on 12 radio stations. Over the years he has hosted politicians such as Donald Rumsfeld the 2008 Secretary of Defense, and Dick Cheney while he was the Vice President. In the 2008 electoral race, he hosted John McCain the Republican presidential candidate, former US President George W. Bush, John Boehner, Speaker of the House, and Newt Gingrich, speaker of the House.
Gallagher is listened to daily in major, small, and medium markets across the country, Philadelphia, New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, and Dallas. Benchmark company regarded him as the talk show radio personality who is the 8th most listened to in America. He has also appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, Time, and The Wall Street Journal newspapers and magazines. Gallagher had weekly listeners of over four million in early 2011 thus making him the sixth talk radio host that was most listened to.
Gallagher worked for WABC in New York City for two years as the Morning Drive host. Before joining WABC, he worked on WGY in Albany, New York as an on-air host. Prior to joining WGY, he served as a manager at WFBC in Greenville, South Carolina. He started his career in Dayton, Ohio at WAVI as an On-air shift when he was only 17 years old.
Mike Gallagher TV Career
Gallagher works as a guest host and contributor at FOX News Channel. He also appears as a co-host sometimes in other shows. In 1983, he served at WKEF, a then NBC affiliate as a co-host with Dawn Meadows of a morning news program.
Mike Gallagher Author
Gallagher has written two books titled 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate which was released on 28th August 2012. The book is Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America which was released in the summer of 2005. He read his book at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on 10th September 2012.
Mike Gallagher Philanthropy
Gallagher formed a charitable organization called The Mike Gallagher Show Charitable Foundation in 2005 which assists the American military families. The Mike Gallagher Show Charitable Foundation was later expanded in 2008. It changed its name to Gallagher’s Army in support of police officers who fall in the line of duty families. He joined hands with the Food for the Poor nonprofit organization on 8th May 2006 to raise funds for creating homes for Jamaica’s poverty-stricken areas.
Gallagher has expressed his opposition to protests targeting American war dead returning from war zones. He utilizes his broadcast platform to discourage such demonstrations. On October 6, 2006, he successfully persuaded the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kansas, to appear on his show in exchange for refraining from picketing the funeral of victims from the West Nickel Mines School shooting near Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. Initially offering financial compensation to stop picketing. Gallagher later granted the church one hour of airtime after criticism labeled his initial offer as unethical. The Amish funerals proceeded peacefully under the terms of the contract, which imposed a $500,000 penalty for any presence of picketers near the funerals.
In response to Westboro Baptist Church’s plans to protest the funerals of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, Gallagher extended an offer of three hours of airtime in return for an agreement not to protest. On April 24, 2007, the WBC participated as in-studio guests throughout Gallagher’s entire program. Similarly, Gallagher reached an agreement with Westboro regarding potential protests at the funerals of those killed in Tucson, Arizona on January 8, 2011. This was despite the passage of emergency legislation on January 12, 2011, rendering such protests illegal in Arizona.
Mike Gallagher Controversy
Gallagher made a controversial comment on Fox News in December 2016. He was responding to a discussion about whether television personalities and actors should be held accountable for public statements they make against the government in times of war. This was especially because of the comparison Joy Behar made about Donald Rumsfeld, the then Secretary of Defense to Adolf Hitler.
In response, Gallagher said “I think we should round up all of these folks. Round up, Joy Behar, [Keith] Olbermann, and Matt Damon, who last night on MSNBC attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney. Take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”. Mike has been accused of being Islamophobia and racist after his comment on the 9/11 attack when he stated that there should be a “Muslims Only” line in airports.
Mike Gallagher Son’s Accident
Gallagher’s son Trevor was involved in an accident that left his seven ribs broken, wrist, legs, and arm. Mike posted this information on The Mike Gallagher show on 22nd August 2021 where he thanked everyone for the prayers and warm wishes.
Mike Gallagher’s Social Media Platforms
He is active on his social media accounts and is often seen posting on his Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. He has over 61.6k followers on Twitter.