Deroy Murdock

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Deroy Murdock
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Born Deroy E Murdock
(1963-12-10) December 10, 1963 (age 60)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Columnist, writer
Alma mater Georgetown University
New York University
Genre Politics, journalism

Deroy E Murdock (born December 10, 1963)[1] is an American syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online. A native of Los Angeles, California, Murdock lives in New York City. Murdock is a first-generation American. His parents are from Costa Rica.

Education

Murdock received his AB in Government from Georgetown University in 1986 and his MBA in Marketing and International Business from New York University in 1989. His MBA program included a semester as an exchange student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Career

Deroy Murdock's columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, National Review, The Orange County Register and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. He is a Fox News Contributor whose political commentary also has aired on ABC's Nightline, NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, other television news channels, and numerous radio outlets.

Murdock is also a Senior Fellow[2] with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Media Fellow[3][4] with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[5]

Murdock interned for then-U.S. Senator Pete Wilson briefly in 1984.[6] Murdock is a veteran of the 1980 and 1984 Reagan for President campaigns and was a communications consultant with Forbes 2000, the White House bid of publisher Steve Forbes. He is openly gay.[7]

In February 2013 Murdock joined the Board of Advisors of the Coalition to Reduce Spending.[8]

Views

Murdock opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the War on Drugs.[9]

In September 2005, Murdock went on record calling the New Orleans' Danzinger bridge shooting, involving the killing of innocent civilians by the NOPD and subsequent cover-up,[10] a "magnificent and morally pristine use of force".[11] Journalist Radley Balko claims that Murdock has yet to retract his written account of the shootings.[12]

He said on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on September 16, 2007 that he believes Saddam Hussein was involved in perpetrating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America. Murdock cited Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan., 262 F. Supp. 2d 217,[13] a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer, Jr.. In Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Judge Baer ruled that Hussein's Baathist government and the Taliban assisted Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Judge Baer—who President Clinton nominated in April 1994—ordered Hussein, Iraq's former government, and this case's other losing parties to pay $104 million in civil damages to the families of George Eric Smith and Timothy Soulas, both murdered on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center. Judge Baer added: "Again, since the al-Qaeda defendants and Iraq are jointly and severally liable, they are all responsible for the payment of any judgment that may be entered."

Murdock wrote Chill Out on Climate Hysteria for the National Review where he stated that some scientists are skeptics of Global Warming .[14]

References

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  5. Cfr.org
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  7. The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) p. 641
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  9. Murdock, Deroy. Fight Bombs, Not Bongs National Review Online. March 4, 2003.
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  12. Theagitator.com
  13. Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
  14. Chill Out on Climate Hysteria National Review, May 2, 2008

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