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. She 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.
[edit] Television
In 1996, she joined Fox News Channel, where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst. She received her doctorate in international relations from Columbia University during this period. She substituted 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 aired on December 9, 2005. 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.
She has appeared 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 fills 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. In mid 2007, Crowley returned to Fox News Channel. She has been a regular participant on The McLaughlin Group since late 2007, taking the seat formerly occupied by conservative journalist Tony Blankley.
[edit] Plagiarism controversy
On August 9, 1999, an article by Crowley titled "The Day Nixon Said Goodbye," appeared in the The Wall Street Journal. Four days later, after the paper received charges of plagiarism from at least one reader, they acknowledged what they termed the "striking similarities" between Crowley's article and an article by Paul Johnson titled In Praise of Richard Nixon[1] published in the October 1988 issue of Commentary Magazine. The Journal editor stated unequivocally:
Had we known of the parallels, we would not have published the article.[2]
The New York Times reported on the incident the following Monday:
A California radiologist, Charles Pfaff, was reading The Wall Street Journal's editorial page last Monday when he felt a sense of deja vu. The article he was reading, The Day Nixon Said Goodbye, by the former President's confidante, Monica Crowley, seemed familiar.
He was right. The article paralleled a 1988 piece in Commentary: In Praise of Richard Nixon by Paul Johnson. Some parts were repeated almost verbatim.[3]
Crowley herself acknowledged the similarity between the pieces:
Reached by telephone on Friday afternoon, Ms. Crowley, the author of Nixon Off the Record (Random House, 1996) and Nixon in Winter (Random House, 1998), agreed that "there are clear similarities in the language. I have wracked my brain, and I can honestly tell you that I have not read" Mr. Johnson's article.[4]
On August 23, 1999, Slate Magazine pushed a piece detailing five specific passages in Crowley's article that contain identical language and phraseology to Johnson's piece, and concluded that "it just isn't possible for Crowley not to have read Johnson's article."[5]
