Monica Crowley

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Monica Crowley (born September 19, 1968) is a conservative radio and television political commentator based in New York City.

Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from Colgate University and a doctorate in international relations from Columbia University. In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon, a post she held from 1990 until his death in 1994. She was an editorial adviser and consultant on his last two books, Seize the Moment (1992) and Beyond Peace (1994). Crowley used this period to record her conversations and observations about Nixon (she kept a diary), and she published two subsequent books on the former President in his final years: Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People (1996) and Nixon in Winter (1998).

In the mid-1990s Crowley wrote a column for the New York Post and was a commentator for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition". She has also written for The New Yorker ^[1], the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times and the Baltimore Sun.

Since 2002, she has her own radio show on WABC Radio in New York called The Monica Crowley Show.

1 Television
2 Accusations of plagiarism
3 Guantanamo Bay detainee representation debate
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Television

In 1996, she joined Fox News Channel, where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst. She received her PhD in International Affairs from Columbia University during this period. She substitued several times for Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. Her sister, Dr. Jocelyn Crowley, is married to Hannity's co-host, Alan Colmes.

In 2004, she joined MSNBC's Connected: Coast to Coast with co-host Ron Reagan. After a nine month run, the last show ran on December 9, 2005. She appears as a recurring guest on Imus in the Morning and has hosted MSNBC's broadcast of The Best of Imus in the Morning.

Currently, Crowley is filling in for Jay Severin on WTKK in Boston. Jay Severin is apparently being hired by Infinity Broadcasting and may no longer appear on his weekday afternoon show, Extreme Games. On October 31, 2005, Crowley appeared on The Colbert Report. Following the cancellation of Connected: Coast to Coast, MSNBC announced that Crowley would anchor a program in the noon hour. That program has yet to debut.

[edit] Accusations of plagiarism

In 1999 Crowley allegedly plagiarized part of an article she wrote for the Wall Street Journal (August 9, 1999) called "The Day Nixon Said Goodbye". The Journal ran an apology the same week. Timothy Noah of Slate Magazine later wrote of the striking similarities in her article to phrases Paul Johnson used in his 1988 article for Commentary called "In Praise of Richard Nixon". Criticism was not widespread at the time, but it was repeated in such forums as the TheMediaDrop.com in December 2004 following her decision to join MSNBC. ^[2]

[edit] Guantanamo Bay detainee representation debate

Crowley has been linked to the controversy over whether large law firms should allow their attorneys to represent detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Crowley's Freedom of Information Act request was the impetus for the reading of the names by Charles Stimson of certain law firms over the radio .^[3]