Bob Franken
Bob Franken has been doing history’s play-by-play for decades. Through Bob, millions of viewers around the planet have been brought to the front row at just about all the world’s major news events…war, political, legal, you name it, he’s been right there.
Bob has specialized in live coverage, with a knack for taking the story, tempestuous, or complex, and making it understandable. He is famous for a sardonic style that looks for irony, and finds it.
An Emmy-award winning reporter, recently inducted into the Society for Professional Journalists Washington Hall of Fame, he covered combat in both Iraq wars, the White House during the George W. Bush administration, the Clinton scandals, the Supreme Court, Congress for ten years. He forced world attention on the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with his extensive reporting from there.
He’s been there live through dramas like the Terri Schiavo tragedy and countless natural disasters.
Bob ‘s columns appear in major newspapers and is syndicated by King Features and Hearst New York Times to literally thousands of Us newspapers. The column is described ad “an extended middle finger pointed in all directions”.
In addition, his “Frankensense” blog appears on True/Slant as well as other prominent websites.
Bob Franken can share a unique perspective on the news of our time…how every story is different, how each is the same, what’s the first thing he looks for when he arrives to go “Live From the Parking Lot.”
What others are saying about Bob Franken“For decades, Bob Franken has provided valuable insight into the great issues of our time. His accurate analysis is unique and essential.”
-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
“Bob Franken has always been a voice of reason and clarity.”
-Jack Cafferty, CNN commentator
“Bob Franken is one of the most perceptive, trusted and articulate journalists in America today. He knows the good, the bad and the ugly of our nation’s capitol and has the optimism necessary to describe it in ways that inform the skeptical rather than encouraging the cynic.”
-Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey
“Bob Franken represents the pinnacle of the journalism: He works tirelessly, does his homework, is scrupulously fair and even-handed, and possesses keen instincts about how Washington and the political world works.”
-Ted Olson, former U.S. Solicitor General
“Don’t ask me how he did it, but Bob Franken was a pain in the @*# who I always liked. Somehow, he could be aggressive and amusing at the same time, in an endearing sort-of way.”
-Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
Bob Franken has been doing history’s play-by-play for decades. Through Bob, millions of viewers around the planet have been brought to the front row at just about all the world’s major news events…war, political, legal, you name it, he’s been right there.
Bob has specialized in live coverage, with a knack for taking the story, tempestuous, or complex, and making it understandable. He is famous for a sardonic style that looks for irony, and finds it.
An Emmy-award winning reporter, recently inducted into the Society for Professional Journalists Washington Hall of Fame, he covered combat in both Iraq wars, the White House during the George W. Bush administration, the Clinton scandals, the Supreme Court, Congress for ten years. He forced world attention on the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with his extensive reporting from there.
He’s been there live through dramas like the Terri Schiavo tragedy and countless natural disasters.
Bob ‘s columns appear in major newspapers and is syndicated by King Features and Hearst New York Times to literally thousands of Us newspapers. The column is described ad “an extended middle finger pointed in all directions”.
In addition, his “Frankensense” blog appears on True/Slant as well as other prominent websites.
Bob Franken can share a unique perspective on the news of our time…how every story is different, how each is the same, what’s the first thing he looks for when he arrives to go “Live From the Parking Lot.”
What others are saying about Bob Franken“For decades, Bob Franken has provided valuable insight into the great issues of our time. His accurate analysis is unique and essential.”
-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
“Bob Franken has always been a voice of reason and clarity.”
-Jack Cafferty, CNN commentator
“Bob Franken is one of the most perceptive, trusted and articulate journalists in America today. He knows the good, the bad and the ugly of our nation’s capitol and has the optimism necessary to describe it in ways that inform the skeptical rather than encouraging the cynic.”
-Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey
“Bob Franken represents the pinnacle of the journalism: He works tirelessly, does his homework, is scrupulously fair and even-handed, and possesses keen instincts about how Washington and the political world works.”
-Ted Olson, former U.S. Solicitor General
“Don’t ask me how he did it, but Bob Franken was a pain in the @*# who I always liked. Somehow, he could be aggressive and amusing at the same time, in an endearing sort-of way.”
-Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
