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Amy M. Holmes[1] (born July 25, 1973) is a news anchor, formerly on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV and a former host of TheBlaze's news discussion program Real News. In 2015, she began hosting Way Too Early, which airs week-days on MSNBC at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time, as a lead-in to Morning Joe. She also has appeared as an independent political contributor for CNN and on Fox News, and has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher several times.[2]
Life and career
Holmes was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to an African father and a white American mother.[3][4] She was raised in her mother's native Seattle, Washington, after her parents divorced, when she was three.[3]
Holmes received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics from Princeton University in 1994. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She is an independent conservative.[2]
She has guest co-hosted The View[5] and co-hosted Fox News' Glenn Beck while Beck was on the road with his "Unelectable" show. She has also appeared on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. She was an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by the Washington Times newspaper called "America's Morning News". She has appeared with Cenk Uygur on MSNBC Live, and on Reliable Sources, Morning Joe, and Media Buzz.
After working for several years for Independent Women's Forum, from 2003 to 2006, Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and Republican Majority Leader.[6]
References
External links
- Amy Holmes on "Politicking with Larry King"
- CNN Anchor profile
- Washingtonian magazine. July 1, 2006. URL.
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