Clifford May

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Cliff May
May at CPAC, 2012
Born1951 (age 72–73)
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Columbia University (MPA, MS)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
  • activist
  • podcaster
Years active1975–present
EmployerFoundation for Defense of Democracies

Clifford D. May (born 1951) is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host.

9/11 attacks,[4] where he hosts the podcast Foreign Podicy.[1][2][3] He is the weekly "Foreign Desk" columnist for The Washington Times.[1][5]

May previously served as commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that makes policy recommendations concerning international religious freedom, as well as the Chairman of the Policy Committee department within the

foreign correspondent, and a newspaper/magazine editor, working notably for Newsweek in the 1970s and for The New York Times in the 1980s.[6]

May is also a member of the

neo-conservative within the Republican Party.[7]

Career

Early career

May earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Geo Magazine
.

May then spent about a decade with

Scripps Howard News Service. He also hosted two weekly television programs and a talk radio show around this time.[8]

Later career

May served as the Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2001.[6] In his position, he oversaw activities such as strategic planning, press, radio, television, online services, speech writing, and advertising. He worked as the editor of Rising Tide, the official Republican Party magazine. He also was Vice Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition.[8]

After leaving the RNC, he became a director in the Washington, D.C. office of BSMG Worldwide, a public affairs and public relations company. In 2006, he was appointed an adviser to the

Broadcasting Board of Governors for a term expiring August 13, 2009. "In this very challenging period of history, it is vital that the United States communicates with audiences abroad clearly and creatively,” May said, “I will be honored and privileged if I can assist with this mission.”[10]

Views and opinions

Issue positions

May is an International Patron of the Henry Jackson Society. In October 2007, The Daily Telegraph named May number 94 in its list of the "100 most influential conservatives in America", and labeled him "an outspoken proponent of the need to achieve victory in Iraq and the broader war against Muslim extremism". It also described him as a "nimble" Republican Party activist in the American media.[7]

May supports the use of

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing the subject of torture, and he and Stewart engaged in a rather heated yet cordial debate on the subject. Jacob Gershman of New York later highlighted the exchange as one of the clearest discussions about the issue in the news media.[12]

May supported the

CIA for accurate information.[4] May told Smiley: "I'm rooting for the guy in the White House, personally, 'cause I do think he has done a good job".[4] In the aftermath of the American re-deployment in Iraq during July 2009, he wrote for The Washington Times that "[t]he news is not that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities. The news is that American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities in victory—rather than in defeat."[9]

In October 2012, May wrote for the

al-Qaida, he considered the group "degraded" but not actually "defeated"; he referred to the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai as a particular sign of a still dangerous Taliban. He argued that "Roosevelt and Churchill grasped what too many analysts in government, academia, media and think tanks do not: To prevail against America's 21st century enemies, kinetic warfare is necessary but insufficient. An ideological war, a war of ideas, also must be waged. And on that front, we have not yet begun to fight."[14]

Disputes, debates, and criticism

During the beginning of the 2003

covert status. Corn then called upon May, along with other conservative commentators such as Jonah Goldberg who had made similar statements, to apologize.[16]

On the October 15, 2007 edition of

State Department monetary grants.[18]

After

Moveon.org, and Nancy Pelosi.[20]

On December 31, 2009, May jokingly suggested releasing detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, then sending "missiles to strike the baggage-claim area".[21] He later defended the remarks, describing critics such as Greenwald as "humorless". He also stated that he had intended to highlight the logical disconnect between someone both supporting the extrajudicial killing of suspected militants and opposing the holding of suspected militants at Guantanamo Bay at the same time.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "FDD | Clifford D. May". FDD. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Foreign Podicy". open.spotify.com. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) launches national security and foreign policy podcast \". MarketWatch. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Clifford May". The Tavis Smiley Show. April 23, 2004. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  5. ^ "Clifford D. May | Stories - Washington Times". www.washingtontimes.com. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d Clifford D. May. Foundation for Defense of Democracies: Main Website. Accessed May 5, 2009.
  7. ^ a b "The most influential US conservatives: 81–100". The Daily Telegraph. October 29, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2009.
  8. ^ a b c d "Cliff May". Archived from the original on October 1, 2002. Retrieved May 6, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Republican Jewish Coalition. Archive accessed on May 5, 2009.
  9. ^ a b May, Clifford D. (July 11, 2009). "Clifford D. May: Iraq ... An American victory". History News Network. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2009.
  10. ^ FDD President Clifford May Nominated to Serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Published July 11, 2008. Accessed July 21, 2009.
  11. National Review Online. Archived from the original
    on April 26, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2009.
  12. New York Magazine
    . Retrieved August 12, 2009.
  13. National Review Online
    . Retrieved July 21, 2009.
  14. ^ "CLIFFORD MAY: Al-Qaida's ideology has not been defeated » Standard-Times". Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  15. National Review Online
    . Retrieved August 12, 2009.
  16. ^ David Corn (March 16, 2007). "Valerie Plame Speaks—Finally—About CIA Leak Case". The Nation. Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  17. ^ Cliff May on Sen. Clinton: "At least call her a Vaginal-American". Media Matters for America. Published October 16, 2007. Published July 21, 2009.
  18. ^ Iraq war supporter Clifford May fails in media appearances to disclose State Dept. grants to organization he heads. Media Matters for America. Published September 10, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2009.
  19. Salon
    . Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  20. National Review Online. Archived from the original
    on August 13, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2009.
  21. National Review Online
    . Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  22. National Review Online
    . Retrieved October 30, 2018.

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