{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox writer |name=Deroy Murdock |birth_name= |birth_date={{birth year and age|1963}} |birth_place=[[Los Angeles]], California, U.S. |image=Deroy Murdock.JPG |caption=Murdock in 2010 |genre=Politics, journalism |occupation=Columnist, writer, editor, political commentator |alma_mater=[[Georgetown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[New York University]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]]) }}
'''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]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web |title=Deroy Murdock Syndicated Columnist |url=https://fedsoc.org/contributors/deroy-murdock |website=fedsoc.org |date=December 31, 2018 |publisher=[[Federalist Society]] |access-date=13 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302072731/https://fedsoc.org/contributors/deroy-murdock |archive-date= 2 March 2024}}</ref>
==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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]], [[NBC Nightly News]],'' [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]], other television news channels, and numerous radio outlets.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} He is openly gay.<ref>''The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics'' (1999) p. 641</ref>
Murdock is also a senior fellow<ref name="Senior Fellow Atlas">{{cite web |url= http://atlasnetwork.org/atlasold/senior-fellows |title= The Atlas Team: Senior Fellows |work= [[Atlas Economic Research Foundation]] |date= October 3, 2006 |access-date= September 20, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100830023104/http://atlasnetwork.org/atlasold/senior-fellows |archive-date= August 30, 2010 |url-status= dead }}</ref> with the [[Atlas Network]] in Washington, D.C., and an emeritus media fellow<ref name="Media Fellows Hoover 2008">{{cite web |url= http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2008 |title= The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2008 |author= Hoover Institution |author-link= Hoover Institution |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20111101002133/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2008 |archivedate= November 1, 2011 |df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Media Fellows Hoover 2004">{{cite web |url= http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2004 |title= The William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows Program by year 2004 |author= Hoover Institution |author-link= Hoover Institution |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20111101002439/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows/2004 |archivedate= November 1, 2011 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> with the [[Hoover Institution]] at [[Stanford University]]. He is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=M |title=Cfr.org |access-date=February 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006183048/http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=M |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 University|Stanford]], [[Tulane University|Tulane]], [[University of Southern California|USC]], and [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] universities.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web |title=Gay Marriage Discussion |url=https://gould.usc.edu/news/gay-marriage-discussion/ |website=gould.usc.edu |publisher=[[University of Southern California]] |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref>
Murdock interned for U.S. senator [[Orrin Hatch]] between 1982 and 1985 and then-U.S. senator [[Pete Wilson]] in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/334031/peter-kezirian-jr-rest-peace-deroy-murdock|title = A. Peter Kezirian Jr. — Rest in Peace|website = [[National Review]]|date = November 26, 2012}}</ref> Murdock is a veteran of [[Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign|the 1980]] and [[Ronald Reagan 1984 presidential campaign|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.<ref>{{cite web | title=Board of Advisors | url=http://reducespending.org/board-of-advisors/ | work=Coalition to Reduce Spending | accessdate=February 19, 2013}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=I'll Say She Is - Off Broadway at the Connelly {{!}} Rest of the Crew Productions |url=https://www.illsaysheis.com/2016-off-broadway-connelly |website=illsaysheis.com |publisher=Gimme a Thrill Productions |access-date=25 May 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240525033620/https://www.illsaysheis.com/2016-off-broadway-connelly |archive-date= 25 May 2024}}</ref>
==Views== Murdock opposes governmental involvement in issues relating to both gay and heterosexual marriage. He also opposes the [[war on drugs]].<ref>Murdock, Deroy. [http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock030403.asp "Fight Bombs, Not Bongs"] ''[[National Review Online]].'' March 4, 2003.</ref>
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 attacks|September 11, 2001, terrorist attack]] on America. Murdock cited the holding in ''Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'', 262 F. Supp. 2d 217,<ref>{{cite web |title=Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, 262 F. Supp. 2d 217 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/262/217/2395373/ |website=law.justia.com |publisher=[[Justia]] |access-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240114061951/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/262/217/2395373/ |archive-date= 14 January 2024}}</ref> a federal case heard by U.S. District Judge [[Harold Baer Jr.]] who found that Hussein's [[Ba'athism|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 [[Joint and several liability#Joint and several liability|jointly and severally liable]] for civil damages to the families of two killed in a September 11 attack.
==See also== * [[Black conservatism in the United States]]
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock-archive.asp National Review columns] * {{C-SPAN|30958}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051202152838/http://www.theihs.org/people.php/75945.html?menuid=6 Biography] at the [[Institute for Humane Studies]] * [http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/03-04142.PDF ''Smith v. Islamic Emirate of Afg''. 262 F. Supp. 2d 217] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127032344/http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/03-04142.PDF |date=November 27, 2007 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20030527195410/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/08/uttm/main552868.shtml CBSNews.com: "Court Rules: Al Qaida, Iraq Linked"] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107153519/http://www.husseinandterror.com/ Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror] * [http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/007691.html Article on Dean's World] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130129090138/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/ Clip from MSNBC's ''1600 Pennsylvania Avenue''] * [http://illsaysheis.com/ I'll Say She Is – the Lost Marx Brothers Musical]
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