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Steve Doocy
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Steve Doocy
Born October 19, 1956 (1956-10-19) (age 51)
KS, U.S.
Occupation Co-host of Fox & Friends
(Fox News Channel) Commentator, author, journalist, television personality.
Steve Doocy, (born October 19, 1956) is an American television personality and New York Times bestselling author.

He was born in Algona, Iowa, and raised in Kansas.

He is best known as a co-host of Fox News Channel's (FNC) Fox & Friends morning news show, which has been the number one morning cable news show in America since 2000. During that time CNN has used a variety of high profile hosts in the morning, trying unsuccessfully to derail Fox and Friends including Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn, Soledad O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, and Bill Hemmer. Hemmer eventually became Doocy's co-worker at Fox News Channel.

Prior to Fox & Friends, Doocy anchored the morning newscast on CBS-TV's flagship station WCBS-TV in New York City. Before that, he was the co-host of Wake Up America on NBC cable, the host of NBC's nationally syndicated program House Party with Steve Doocy, a remake of the 1960s Art Linkletter show, and the host of Not Just News on Fox. For six years, Doocy was the feature reporter for WRC in Washington, D.C. and the NBC Television Stations division. Before that he worked at television stations in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, and Des Moines.

For four seasons Doocy was the live Times Square reporter on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve on ABC-TV. In 2004, he and FNC correspondent Alisyn Camerota launched All American New Year, FNC's New Year's Eve special, which they co-hosted.

Doocy has received 11 Emmy Awards as well as the Associated Press' Feature Reporter of the Year Award. He was also recognized by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, with their Headliner Award.

At the University of Kansas, he was a news correspondent for the National Public Radio station KANU-FM, and also worked on-air at college station KJHK-FM where he served as the station manager and a variety of other posts before graduation with a B.A. in journalism. Doocy began his television career as a part time weekend weatherman at KTSB-TV (now KSNT-TV-Topeka). He progressed to statehouse reporter and on his last day, the then attorney general of Kansas Bob Stephan called an impromptu news conference and surprised Doocy with a cream pie in the face. He later worked television reporter jobs in Iowa and Missouri. He also hosted PM Magazine in Wichita and Kansas City. Before he moved to Washington, D.C., he worked occasionally as a production assistant on ABC's Wide World of Sports and Monday Night Football.

Doocy lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey, with his wife, Kathy, and their three children, Peter, Mary, and Sally. He is a practicing Roman Catholic and a lector in his local parish. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus of Bergen County, New Jersey.

In October 2006, Doocy's first book, The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook, a book about marriage and family life, became an instant New York Times bestseller. It was published by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins.

During his career Doocy has covered spot news, natural disasters, and the administrations of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He has also reported from the national conventions of both major political parties and personally reported on every major election cycle since 1986.

Doocy has been involved extensively in fundraising for the poor and disadvantaged, he has helped build homeless shelters in northern New Jersey, stock food pantries around New York City, and was a national spokesman for the March of Dimes.

He has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and has been spoofed on NBC's Saturday Night Live, E! Entertainment Television's Talk Soup, Comedy Central's Colbert Report, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. On the November 1 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, discussing criticism of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) comments on a proposal by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, co-host Steve Doocy asserted that Clinton said in an October 31 campaign statement, "As president, her goal will be to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would make this necessary." Fox displayed an on-air graphic of the text as read by Doocy, who then asked, "So what's that mean?" Co-host Gretchen Carlson replied, "I don't know. It's hard to understand, and I guess that might be the point, guys." But as The Washington Post and The Boston Globe both reported November 1, the statement issued by the Clinton campaign actually said: "As President, her goal will be to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would make [the New York proposal] unnecessary" [emphasis added].

Clinton's October 31 statement, quoted by the Post and the Globe, read as follows:

Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration's failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. As President, her goal will be to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would make this unnecessary.

From the November 1 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

DOOCY: Well, she did issue a statement yesterday to clarify her official statement.

BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): OK, good. Let's hear this.

DOOCY: OK. Does this make any sense to you out there in TV land?

"Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration's failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform. As president, her goal will be to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would make this necessary."

So what's that mean?

CARLSON: I don't know. It's hard to understand, and I guess that might be the point, guys. Because, you know, politicians don't like to take stands on sometimes on really serious issues, because then they offend the other side.