Deroy Murdock

Deroy Murdock
Murdock in 2010
Murdock in 2010
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationColumnist, writer, editor, political commentator
Alma materGeorgetown University (BA)
New York University (MBA)
GenrePolitics, journalism

Deroy Murdock (born 1963) is an American political commentator, a contributing editor with National Review Online, an emeritus media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A native of Los Angeles, Murdock lives in New York City. A first-generation American, his parents were born in Costa Rica.

Education

Deroy Murdock earned his Bachelor's Degree in Government from Georgetown University in 1986 and his Master of Business Administration 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.[1]

Career

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.[citation needed] He is openly gay.[2]

Murdock is also a senior fellow[3] with the Atlas Network in Washington, D.C., and an emeritus media fellow[4][5] with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[6]

Murdock has debated or made presentations in foreign countries and at organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, the Cato Institute, Harvard Medical School, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heritage Foundation, and Stanford, Tulane, USC, and Dartmouth universities.[1][7]

Murdock interned for U.S. senator Orrin Hatch between 1982 and 1985 and then-U.S. senator Pete Wilson in 1984.[8] Murdock is a veteran of the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and was a communications consultant with Steve Forbes' 2000 presidential campaign.

In February 2013, Murdock joined the board of advisors of the Coalition to Reduce Spending.[9]

Murdock was a producer of I'll Say She Is – The Lost Marx Brothers Musical, which was based on the 1924 I'll Say She Is musical comedy. The production opened in 2016, at the Connelly Theater in Manhattan's East Village.[10]

Views

Murdock opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the war on drugs.[11]

Murdock 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 the holding in Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, 262 F. Supp. 2d 217,[12] a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. who found that Hussein's Baathist government and the Taliban assisted Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the September 11 attacks and ruled that the defendants, including Hussein’s Iraq, were jointly and severally liable for civil damages to the families of two killed in a September 11 attack.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Deroy Murdock Syndicated Columnist". fedsoc.org. Federalist Society. Archived from the original on March 2, 2024. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  2. ^ The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) p. 641
  3. ^ "The Atlas Team: Senior Fellows". Atlas Economic Research Foundation. October 3, 2006. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
  4. ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2008". Archived from the original on November 1, 2011.
  5. ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2004". Archived from the original on November 1, 2011.
  6. ^ "Cfr.org". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
  7. ^ "Gay Marriage Discussion". gould.usc.edu. University of Southern California. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  8. ^ "A. Peter Kezirian Jr. — Rest in Peace". National Review. November 26, 2012.
  9. ^ "Board of Advisors". Coalition to Reduce Spending. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  10. ^ "I'll Say She Is - Off Broadway at the Connelly | Rest of the Crew Productions". illsaysheis.com. Gimme a Thrill Productions. Archived from the original on May 25, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
  11. ^ Murdock, Deroy. "Fight Bombs, Not Bongs" National Review Online. March 4, 2003.
  12. ^ "Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, 262 F. Supp. 2d 217 (S.D.N.Y. 2003)". law.justia.com. Justia. Archived from the original on January 14, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2024.