Kennedy (commentator)
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (born September 8, 1972),<ref name="nbcnews">Template:Cite web</ref> referred to mononymously as Kennedy, is an American libertarian political commentator, radio personality, author, and former MTV VJ. She is a commentator on Fox News Channel, a primary guest host of Fox's Outnumbered and The Five, host of the podcast Kennedy Saves The World on Fox News Radio and a columnist for The Daily Mail. Kennedy was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative-rock program Alternative Nation throughout much of the 1990s.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> She hosted Kennedy on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2023.<ref name="Roush">Template:Cite web</ref>
Early life
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon,<ref name=ww>Template:Cite news</ref> a suburb of Portland. Kennedy and her two brothers were raised by her mother.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She is of Romanian and Scottish descent.<ref name="interview">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> She attended Lakeridge High School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She attended Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles; she later completed a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Kennedy interned as a DJ at KROQ radio in Los Angeles as a teenager.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was known on KROQ as "the Virgin Kennedy".Template:Why<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Kennedy began her career as a VJ on MTV in 1992.<ref name="nbcnews"/><ref name=":0" /> She hosted Alternative Nation from 1992 to 1997.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> By 1995, she had become such a recognizable cultural figure that the sitcom Murphy Brown introduced a new character named McGovern, modeled after her.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1999, Kennedy published her book Hey Ladies! Tales and Tips for Curious Girls, in which she incorporated a multitude of personal experiences.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> That same year, she moved to Seattle to host The Buzz on KQBZ radio; the show was a mix of news, local issues, and comedy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Kennedy left Seattle in 2001 to cohost a morning radio show with Ahmet Zappa on the Comedy World Radio Network, The Future with Ahmet & Kennedy, a similar mix of current events and comedy.<ref name=":0" /> She later co-hosted a morning show with Malibu Dan, The Big House.<ref name=":0" />
Beginning June 3, 2002, Kennedy hosted Game Show Network's Friend or Foe?,<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> which ran for two seasons. On April 1, 2003, she guest-hosted the GSN show WinTuition as part of GSN's April Fools prank where hosts swap places, while the original hosts usually appear as cameos, and play as contestants in Lingo for charity.
She also hosted GSN's Who Wants to Be Governor of California?,<ref name=":1" /> a televised debate among fringe candidates in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, such as actors Gary Coleman and Mary Carey. On July 3, 2003, Kennedy hosted a pilot episode for a proposed revival of Scrabble on GSN, titled Scrabble Challenge. The show was ultimately not picked up.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
Beginning September 23, 2005, Kennedy appeared as an occasional panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever and MSNBC's Scarborough Country. In October 2005, she became host of Fox Reality's Reality Remix until that series ended in June 2008.
In December 2007, she guest-hosted the evening show several times on Los Angeles talk-radio station KFI,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> before being hired by the station for a regular Sunday-afternoon show.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In April 2008, she joined Bryan Suits as cohost of the Kennedy & Suits Show at that station through September 30, 2009. She hosted Music in the Mornings on KYSR in Los Angeles from 2009 until March 2014.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On January 18, 2011, she began appearing as Anthony Sullivan's assistant on PitchMen, looking for new inventions to promote in infomercials.
Kennedy joined Fox Business Network as a contributor in 2012. She co-hosted The Independents, a current-events and political discussion show, from its debut on December 9, 2013.<ref name=i>Template:Cite web</ref> The show was cancelled in January 2015, but she continued as host of her own program, Kennedy.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Kennedy was put on hiatus March 13, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On October 19, 2020, the program ended its seven-month hiatus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On May 31, 2023, Fox Business announced that it would be ending Kennedy after 8 years.<ref name="Roush"/> She continues to serve as a regular guest/host on Fox News.
Following the cancellation of Kennedy on FBN, Kennedy announced that her podcast Kennedy Saves The World would be putting out episodes Monday-Friday at 7 p.m. EST beginning on June 26, 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She is also a contributor to Reason.com and Reason.tv, and occasionally serves as guest host for Bill Carroll, John and Ken, and Tim Conway Jr. on KFI. She was a correspondent on the Fox Business talk show Stossel, and made occasional appearances as a panelist and guest host on Fox News' Red Eye. She makes appearances on other Fox talk shows, such as Outnumbered, The Five, and Gutfeld!.
Kennedy served as a regular host of Fox News Saturday Night from June 2023 through January 2024.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Politics
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Kennedy is registered as unaffiliated.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> She is a supporter of same-sex marriage,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and officiated at the wedding of fellow Fox contributor Guy Benson to husband Adam Wise.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She also supports privatization of Social Security.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She opposes the "war on drugs" and bureaucratic regulation.<ref name="Entertainment Weekly" />
Kennedy described herself as an "ardent Republican" in 1994.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At MTV's 1993 Rock 'n' Roll Inaugural Ball for Bill Clinton, she chanted, "Nixon now! Nixon now!" whenever the Clintons went on stage.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Along with being a fan of Richard Nixon, she supported Dan Quayle and Bob Dole.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was a speaker at the 1996 Republican National Convention.<ref name="The Advocates" />
She later abandoned social conservatism, saying, "Social conservatism was really bringing me down, and I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian."<ref name="Entertainment Weekly">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She was first introduced to libertarianism when Kurt Loder suggested she read Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> She actively supported Gary Johnson in both the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In March 2012, Reason published an article by Kennedy saying atheism is a religion on par with theistic religions.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2014, according to Robert Draper, her show is not pro-Republican; it "bash[es] not only 'Obamacare' but also the NSA, neoconservatives and social scolds."<ref name="NYTMag">Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal life
Kennedy is divorced from former professional snowboarder Dave Lee; the couple has two daughters.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name="Divorce"/>
Prior to 1995, Kennedy dated Goo Goo Dolls frontman and guitarist John Rzeznik.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The song "Name" was written about her.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
She has the Romanian flag tattooed on her left ankle,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Entertainment Weekly"/> and a pink Republican elephant tattooed on her upper left thigh.<ref name="The Advocates">Template:Cite web</ref>
In September 2012, during an appearance on Red Eye, Kennedy said she had been diagnosed with celiac disease,<ref name="Coeliac">Template:Cite web</ref> leading her to change to a more meat-based diet.
Kennedy is a triathlete.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Excerpts from Kennedy's segment on Fox were featured in the "Now this" segment of the first episode of season 7 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Publications
See also
References
External links
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