Michael Rosen (born December 5, 1944)''The Mike Rosen Show'', 850 KOA, December 22, 2008 (10 a.m. hour) is an American radio personality and political commentator. He was the host of ''The Mike Rosen Show'' on

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station 850 KOA in Denver, Colorado, until January 4, 2016,''The Mike Rosen Show'' website
, 850 KOA (accessed August 24, 2008) as well as a weekly opinion columnist for ''

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''Rosen, Mike
Permanent state of entitlement?
The Denver Post, March 6, 2009 and previously a weekly opinion columnist for the ''

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''.Mike Rosen

(accessed August 24, 2008) Rosen has described himself as an "advocate for generally right-center, mainstream

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ideas."Rosen, Mike
"ROSEN: Watchdogs or lapdogs?"
opinion column in the ''

'', November 21, 2008

''The Mike Rosen Show''

Mike Rosen is a self-described

political commentator and longtime host of ''The Mike Rosen Show'', a political talk radio show on 850 KOA, broadcasting out of

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, where he held the weekday 1 p.m.-3 p.m. time slot. Rosen had previously occupied the 9 a.m.-12 p.m. time slot for over 25 years, but moved to afternoons (and lost one hour) starting on January 6, 2014. The change was made in order for KOA to air

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live from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Prior to the time change,

was recorded and aired from 12 p.m.-3 p.m. On December 10, 2015, Rosen announced his retirement from his daily show effective at the end of 2015. Rosen remained as a contributor on 850 KOA, covering political events through 2016. Mandy Connell became Rosen's replacement in an afternoon show that runs from 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Connell began hosting the show effective January 4, 2016.Article in the Denver Post
''

'', December 11, 2015 In February, 2017, Rosen began hosting a movie review program on KOA, ''Mike Rosen at the Movies'', airing Saturday mornings at 8:00. Rosen filled in for

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on ''

'' on February 24 and 25, 2005.Transcript from ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''
''

'', February 18, 2005 (accessed August 24, 2008) The

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Osher, Christopher N.
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"Ritter weighs in"
'' The Denver Daily News'', July 3, 2008 (accessed August 24, 2008) and the

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came on as guests to ''The Mike Rosen Show'' on a monthly basis to discuss current issues and to answer listeners' questions. Other prominent guests to have come on ''The Mike Rosen Show'' include John McCainJohn McCain on The Mike Rosen Show
850 KOA (accessed August 24, 2008) and Condoleezza Rice.Transcript of interview with Condoleezza Rice

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, September 12, 2007 (released September 13, 2007) (accessed August 24, 2008) Mike Rosen twice appeared on the ''

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'' "Heavy Hundred" list of the most important U.S. radio talk show hosts. In 2009 Rosen appeared as number 82 on the list and in 2010 as number 86.

Newspaper columns and other commentary

Starting March 6, 2009, Rosen writes a weekly column for ''

''. Prior to moving to The Denver Post, Rosen wrote a weekly column for the ''

'' until that newspaper's final issue in February 2009. He is also contributing political commentary to other outlets, including RealClearPolitics.Rosen, Mike
"Another Nutty Professor"
'' RealClearPolitics'', November 25, 2005 (accessed August 24, 2008) Rosen wrote a May 31, 2012 column for ''The Denver Post'', under the headline "Mike Coffman was right about Obama in the first place," strongly agreeing with a speech given by

Mike Coffman Michael Harold Coffman (born March 19, 1955) is an American politician, businessman, and veteran of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps serving as Mayor of Aurora, Colorado since 2019. A Republican, Coffman served as the U.S. representative for ...

. In that speech, Coffman questioned the birth certificate of President

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and asserted that Obama was not loyal to the United States. Rosen dismissed Coffman's later apology as a "pragmatic" election-year maneuver.

Biography

Rosen was born in

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, on December 5, 1944. He grew up in New York and has lived in Colorado for more than 30 years. He earned an

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from the

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and has worked as a corporate finance executive at

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and

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. A veteran of the

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, Rosen served as Special Assistant for Financial Management to the

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. He is divorced and has two grown children. On February 2, 2009 it was reported that Rosen had lost a "seven-figure sum" of his retirement savings from investing with Agile Group, a Boulder, Colorado investment firm that Rosen had run ads for on the air, and that unknown to Rosen at the time was acting as a feeder fund for

Bernard Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( ; April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American fraudster and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion. He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ ...

. Rosen devoted the first full hour of his February 3, 2009 radio show to this topic.''The Mike Rosen Show'', 850 KOA, February 3, 2009 (9 a.m. hour)

References

External links

''The Mike Rosen Show'' official website
850 KOA
Mike Rosen (''The Denver Post'' website)

Mike Rosen (''Rocky Mountain News'' website)
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