Deroy Murdock
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for the Scripps Howard News Service
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and a contributing editor with National Review Online.
Deroy Murdock's columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times
The Washington Times
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, National Review
National Review
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, The Orange County Register
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and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States
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and abroad. His political commentary has aired on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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's Nightline, NBC Nightly News
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, CNN
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, Fox News Channel
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, MSNBC
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, PBS
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, other television news channels, and numerous radio outlets.
Murdock is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
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in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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and a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution
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at Stanford University
Stanford University
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. He is a veteran of the 1980
United States presidential election, 1980
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and 1984
United States presidential election, 1984
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Reagan
Ronald Reagan
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for President campaigns and was a communications consultant with Forbes 2000, the White House bid of publisher Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
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.
He opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay
Gay
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and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the War on Drugs
War on Drugs
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.
He said on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on September 16, 2007 that he believes Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
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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, a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer, Jr.
Harold Baer, Jr.
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. Murdock details this case, and presents extensive additional evidence of Saddam Hussein's philanthropy of terror on a webpage he developed called HUSSEINandTERROR.com.
Murdock was named runner-up "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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after writing an article titled "Three Cheers for Waterboarding", in which he called waterboarding
Waterboarding
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"something of which every American should be proud."
For "Lefty, It's Cold Outside" -- an article he penned on Democrats, liberals, and socialists who deny global warming
Climate change denial
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-- Murdock was named "Muckracker of the Day" on the February 2, 2009 edition of MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with David Shuster.
Murdock received his AB
Bachelor's degree
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in Government from Georgetown University
Georgetown University
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in 1986 and his MBA
Master of Business Administration
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in Marketing and International Business from New York University
New York University
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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
Los Angeles, California
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, Murdock lives in New York City
New York City
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. Murdock is a first-generation American. His parents are from Costa Rica
Costa Rica
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External links
- National Review columns
- Biography at the Institute for Humane StudiesInstitute for Humane StudiesThe Institute for Humane Studies is a classical liberal non-profit organization whose stated mission is “to support the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and in...
- Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afg. 262 F. Supp. 2d 217
- CBSNews.com: "Court Rules: Al Qaida, Iraq Linked"
- Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror
- Article on Dean's World
- Clip from MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue