Deroy Murdock is an American syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online.
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. His political commentary has aired on ABC's Nightline, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, PBS, other television news channels, and numerous radio outlets.
Murdock is also a Senior Fellow[1] with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Media Fellow[2][3] with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He 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 opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the War on Drugs.[4]
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,[5] a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer, Jr.. Murdock details this case, and presents extensive additional evidence of Saddam Hussein's philanthropy of terror on a webpage he developed called HUSSEINandTERROR.com.[6]
Murdock was named runner-up "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann after writing an article titled "Three Cheers for Waterboarding", in which he called waterboarding "something of which every American should be proud."[7][8]
For "Lefty, It's Cold Outside" [9] -- an article he penned on Democrats, liberals, and socialists who deny global warming -- Murdock was named "Muckracker of the Day" [10] on the February 2, 2009 edition of MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Shuster.
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. A native of Los Angeles, California, Murdock lives in New York City. Murdock is a first-generation American. His parents are from Costa Rica.
References
- ^ "The Atlas Team: Senior Fellows". Atlas Economic Research Foundation. 3 October 2006.
- ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2008".
- ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2004".
- ^ Murdock, Deroy. Fight Bombs, Not Bongs National Review Online. 4 March 2003.
- ^ Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
- ^ www.husseinandterror.com
- ^ MSNBC - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - A Unique Newscast that Counts Down the Day’s Top Stories - Get the Latest Transcripts, TV Schedule & Video Highlights - MSNBC.com Front Page
- ^ Three Cheers for Waterboarding - HUMAN EVENTS
- ^ Murdock, Deroy. Lefty, It’s Cold Outside. National Review Online. 30 January 2009.
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