Deroy Murdock | |
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 Murdock in 2010 | |
| Born | 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Columnist, writer, editor, political commentator |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University (BA) New York University (MBA) |
| Genre | Politics, journalism |
Deroy Murdock (born 1963) is an American political commentator and a contributing editor with National Review Online . A native of Los Angeles, Murdock lives in New York City. A first-generation American, his parents were born in Costa Rica.
Murdock earned his bachelor's degree 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.[ citation needed ]
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.[ citation needed ] He is openly gay. [1]
Murdock is also a Senior Fellow [2] with the Atlas Network in Washington, D.C., and an emeritus Media Fellow [3] [4] with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [5]
Murdock interned for U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch between 1982 and 1985 and then-U.S. Senator Pete Wilson in summer 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.
In February 2013, Murdock joined the Board of Advisors of the Coalition to Reduce Spending. [7]
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 on June 2, 2016, at the Connelly Theater in Manhattan's East Village. [8]
Murdock opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the War on Drugs. [9]
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 the holding in Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, 262 F. Supp. 2d 217, [10] a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr.
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