Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is an American syndicated columnist for 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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. 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 on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[4] 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.
[edit] Views
Murdock opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the War on Drugs.[5]
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,[6] 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 details this case, and presents extensive additional evidence of Saddam Hussein's philanthropy of terror on a webpage he developed called HUSSEINandTERROR.com.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ "The Atlas Team: Senior Fellows". Atlas Economic Research Foundation. 3 October 2006. http://atlasnetwork.org/atlasold/senior-fellows.
- ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2008". http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2008.
- ^ Hoover Institution. "The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2004". http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2004.
- ^ http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=M
- ^ 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
