Monica Crowley

Monica Crowley
Born (1968-09-19) September 19, 1968
Fort Huachuca, Arizona, U.S.
Education Colgate University (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Political party Republican

Monica Crowley (born September 19, 1968) is an American political commentator and lobbyist.[1] She is a Fox News contributor, where she works (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017, a former online opinion editor for The Washington Times, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[2][3] In December 2016, the Donald Trump administration announced that Crowley would be appointed a deputy national security advisor for the National Security Council. However, she withdrew the following month following disclosures of incidents of plagiarism in both her academic and professional work.[4][5]

Early life and education

Crowley was born at Fort Huachuca,[6] an Army base located outside of Sierra Vista, Arizona, and grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey. She holds a B.A. in political science from Colgate University and a Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University (2000).[7]

Career

As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former President Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990[8] when she was 22 years old.[7][9] She was an editorial adviser and consultant on Nixon's last two books, and following Nixon's death, she published two books about him.

In the mid-1990s, Crowley wrote a regular column for the New York Post. She has also written for The New Yorker,[10] The Washington Times,[3] The Wall Street Journal,[11] the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun.

Radio

Crowley was a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition in the mid-1990s.[12] Since 2002, she has had her own radio show, The Monica Crowley Show, which is also available as a podcast on iTunes.[13]

Television

In 1996, Crowley joined Fox News Channel, where she was a foreign affairs and political analyst and occasionally substituted for Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel's Hannity. 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. Crowley has also been a recurring guest on Imus in the Morning and has hosted the MSNBC broadcast The Best of Imus in the Morning. In 2007, she returned as a contributor to Fox News Channel. She was also a regular participant on The McLaughlin Group from late 2007 to 2011.[14]

Crowley is an occasional panelist on Fox News Channel's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Since 2009, she has been a guest host for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor and appeared opposite Alan Colmes on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor in a segment called "Barack and a Hard Place". She is also an occasional guest host on the daily (5:00 pm ET) Fox opinion show, The Five.[14]

Crowley appeared in the Netflix original series of House of Cards, portraying herself.[14]

In election-day commentary in 2016 on Fox News, speaking of Republican candidate Donald Trump's impending upset victory, Crowley said, "This is a revolt of the unprotected class against the protected elite class."[15] Following the election of President Donald Trump, it was announced in December 2016 that Crowley would join the Trump administration as a deputy national security advisor. Following this announcement, Fox News terminated her contract with the network at Crowley's request.[16]

Consulting

In March 2017, Crowley joined the firm of Douglas Schoen as a part-time consultant, providing "outreach services" on behalf of Ukrainian industrialist and political figure Victor Pinchuk. Crowley registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.[17][18]

Allegations of plagiarism

In 1999, Crowley was accused of plagiarism related to a column on Richard Nixon she wrote for The Wall Street Journal[11] containing "striking similarities" (according to the Journal) with a piece written 11 years earlier by Paul Johnson.[19][20] When reached by The New York Times for comment, Crowley responded, "I did not, nor would I ever, use material from a source without citing it."[20] On January 7, 2017, CNN published a report documenting numerous instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The book includes about 50 examples of copying freely from published sources with no attribution given, including from Wikipedia.[21] In a statement, the Trump transition team called the plagiarism report "nothing more than a politically motivated attack" and stood by her.[22]

Two days later on January 9, 2017, Politico reported that a dozen additional instances of plagiarism were in Crowley's 2000 Ph.D. dissertation on international relations at Columbia University.[19][23] The next day, HarperCollins, which had published What the (Bleep) Just Happened?, announced:[24]

The book, which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material.

On January 16, 2017, Crowley withdrew from consideration for the role of senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council in the Trump administration. “I have decided to remain in New York to pursue other opportunities,” she said in a statement.[25] The Washington Times, where she served previously as online opinion editor, said the same day that it would be investigating her work at the paper for possible incidents of additional plagiarism by her.[26]

Crowley subsequently told Fox News host Sean Hannity, "What happened to me was a despicable, straight-up, political hit job" and said that it had been "debunked."[27] Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who first reported instances of plagiarism in Crowley's book, called her claims of innocence false and "complete BS,"[27] stating: "No one has yet to point out a single inaccuracy in our reporting or asked for a correction on it. Monica Crowley v. reality."[28]

Personal life

Crowley grew up in central New Jersey.[7]

Crowley's brother-in-law was the late liberal political commentator Alan Colmes, who was married to Crowley's sister, Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University.[29]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Trump's pick for national security role now lobbying for Ukrainian tycoon". POLITICO. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  2. ↑ "Membership Roster – Council on Foreign Relations". Cfr.org. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  3. 1 2 "Monica Crowley | Stories". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  4. ↑ "Trump national security pick Monica Crowley plagiarized multiple sources in 2012 book," by Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Money, January 7, 2017, retrieved January 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Pappas, Alex (December 15, 2016). "Trump to name retired Lt. Gen. Kellogg and Crowley to national security posts". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  6. ↑ "Monica Crowley, Conservative Commentator & Author | MAKERS Video". Makers.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  7. 1 2 3 Romano, Carlin (Knight Ridder) (August 27, 1996). "Taking good notes helped Monica Crowley, 27". The News via Google. New York. p. 9A.
  8. ↑ Richard Nixon Foundation (18 July 2012). "Monica Crowley on Working for President Nixon" – via YouTube.
  9. ↑ Crowley, Monica (1998). Nixon in Winter: The Final Revelations. I.B.Tauris. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-1-86064-266-1.
  10. ↑ Crowley, Monica, "Nixon Unplugged" (abstract; subscription), The New Yorker Magazine, July 29, 1996, p. 42-.
  11. 1 2 Noah, Timothy (1999-08-23). "Nixon's Monica Stonewalls About Plagiarism!". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  12. ↑ "Monica Crowley". WABC Radio. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  13. ↑ "TRN Entertainment Announces Continuation of the Weekend Monica Crowley Show – Talk Radio Network". Trn1.com. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  14. 1 2 3 "Filmography>Actress, ->Self", IMDb. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
  15. ↑ Bauder, David, "Election coverage an unexpected thrill ride on TV", AP via boston.com, November 9, 2016. Retrieved 2017-1-12.
  16. ↑ "Fox News Terminates Monica Crowley’s Contract as She Reportedly Takes Trump Job". www.mediaite.com.
  17. ↑ Robbie Gramer, One-Time Trump National Security Pick Registers As Foreign Agent for Ukrainian Oligarch (March 14, 2017).
  18. ↑ Short Form Registration Statement Pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, received by United States Department of Justice National Security Division/FARA Registration Unit 03/10/2017 4:46:57 PM.
  19. 1 2 Caton, Alex; Grace Watkins. "Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation". Politico. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  20. 1 2 Barringer, Felicity. "Media Talk; Journal Article on Nixon Conjures Deja Vu". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  21. ↑ Kaczynski, Andrew (January 7, 2017). "Trump pick Monica Crowley plagiarized multiple sources in 2012 book - CNNMoney". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  22. ↑ Morin, Rebecca, "Report: Trump's NSC comms pick plagiarized tracts in 2012 book", Politico, January 7, 2017.
  23. ↑ Hartmann, Margaret (January 9, 2017). "Trump National Security Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Ph.D. Dissertation Too". New York. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  24. ↑ Kaczynski, Andrew (10 January 2017). "HarperCollins pulls Trump pick Monica Crowley's book amid plagiarism revelations". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  25. ↑ Trudo, Hanna (January 16, 2017). "Monica Crowley not taking role in Trump administration". Politico (magazine). Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  26. ↑ Stephen Dinan, Monica Crowley to forgo post in Trump White House, The Washington Times (January 16, 2017).
  27. 1 2 Meera Jagannathan, Monica Crowley claims plagiarism allegations were ‘a despicable, straight-up, political hit job', New York Daily News (March 8, 2017).
  28. ↑ Andrew Desiderio, CNN Calls B.S. on Monica Crowley Claiming Her Plagiarism Was ;Debunked', Daily Beast (March 10, 2017).
  29. ↑ Sabloff, Nicholas (November 12, 2008). "Monica Crowley, Sister Of Alan Colmes' Wife Jocelyn". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
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