David Pakman

Pakman hosts The David Pakman Show, a television, radio, and Internet political program. According to Pakman, he began it in 2005 on a local radio station as a "hobby", and by 2011 the show aired on 100 stations, and outlets including DirecTV and DISH Network through Free Speech TV, the PACIFICA Radio Network, on YouTube, and via podcasts. The program first aired in August 2005 on WXOJ-LP ("Valley Free Radio"), located in Northampton, Massachusetts, as Midweek Politics with David Pakman. In July 2010 it was nationally syndicated.

Pakman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1989, when he was five years old. He grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Northampton High School. Pakman says that he received "a relatively secular Jewish upbringing, but I've always been highly involved with my Jewish background, socially and culturally; I'm part of a local Jewish group and I attend their events. It's just generally how I identify." Pakman attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he majored in economics and communications. He earned an MBA degree from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Pakman worked several jobs as a high school and university student, and he has described his employment at now-defunct electronics retailer Circuit City.

David Pakman (born February 2, 1984) is an Argentinian-American political pundit and academic. He is the host of the internationally syndicated political television and talk radio program The David Pakman Show. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Pakman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised from age 5 in the United States.