You probably won’t be surprised to learn there’s some unethical behavior in former Fox News contributor Monica Crowley’s past, too.
Monica Crowley, who served during Donald Trump’s first term, has now been chosen for a top PR spot in the Department of State in Trump’s next administration.
From The Hill:
Trump announced Crowley’s nomination for “Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol,” a position he said will oversee major U.S.-hosted events including America’s 250th Independence Day anniversary in 2026; the FIFA World Cup in 2026 and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
Although Crowley was also a political and foreign affairs analyst at Fox News, she may be best known for the many, many examples of plagiarism found in her 2012 book. She was also found to have plagiarized in a 1999 column in The Wall Street Journal.
According to Vanity Fair, Crowley is Trump’s 12th Fox News pick.
Crowley distinguished herself at Fox with outrageous conspiracy theories and bigotry, such as suggesting the DNC protected Keith Ellison, the then-candidate for Minnesota attorney general, from allegations of abuse because he’s a Black Muslim. (Ellison is now in office.)
From my January 7, 2017 post after Crowley was picked to be deputy national security adviser for strategic communications in Trump’s first term:
Crowley has long had a rather - er, interesting - relationship with facts. We have caught her many times promoting wacky conspiracy theories on Fox. Watch one of our favorites below, in which Crowley accused CBS’ Bob Schieffer of offering secretly-coded campaign suggestions to Obama advisor David Axelrod, from a 2010 appearance on The O’Reilly Factor.
(From Ellen: Crooks and Liars (where I am a contributor) has a great compilation of other Crowley lowlights.)
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(Crowley image via screen grab, from a 2016 appearance in which she promoted the conspiracy theory that the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich was a Clinton hit job)
In the current age where morality is gone and right and wrong no longer matter, she can be pushed into a position at State where she, as a vicious Angry Right Wing extremist, can presume to lecture everyone about “protocol”. And that’s the way it will go.
We must remember that a small majority of American voters, including Dems, actively chose to support this. They didn’t want to vote for a half-Asian, half-African American woman, and they preferred to support an unrepentant convicted felon. This is what happens when people do that.
I agree that it’s frustrating to watch it happen, but that’s what a majority of the American electorate preferred over the terrifying prospect of a female president.
To be honest, it isn’t the viciousness or the incompetence that concerns me the most. And it isn’t even the gleefulness with which this bunch will attack migrants and shove the gay community back in the closet. It’s the near certainty that we’re looking at a significant world conflict and another pandemic thanks to the established ignorance and inability of what will now be the Vance White House. Last time, we lost over a million Americans to COVID. And that was a low number since we were able to evict the Pence White House within a year of the pandemic’s beginning. What happens when the same problem happens earlier on in the Vance White House?
Sane Americans may not be able to stop all of this from happening, but what we can do is speak up. That’s the lesson of Martin Niemoller. Don’t be quiet when the bigots try to get away with their attacks. Don’t let them walk away without being told who and what they are, directly to their faces. Do not go gentle.
