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Revision as of 18:26, 18 January 2006 by 70.251.118.251 (talk) (corrected spelling of Starr)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Christopher Ruddy is the founder and editor of NewsMax and president and CEO of its corporate parent, NewsMax Media Inc. Both Ruddy and NewsMax specialized in conservative reporting and attacking liberals and Democracts. His attacks on liberals and what he sees as a media bias in their favor date back to a 1992 PBS documentary. Yet his apparent misinformation, ranging from attacks on the left wing and support of the right even in the case of clearly incorrect assertions, has resulted in a very small support base. Ruddy has written stories for conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch's the New York Post attacking Social Security and has encouraged and offered Bill Clinton conspiracy theories about Vincent Foster. While his conspiracy theories in "The Strange Death of Vince Foster" have been dismissed even by Ann Coulter as a "discredited," he retains a loyal group of hardline-conservatives supporters.
Ruddy became known for this work with the Arkansas Project, which was "described by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., founder and editor of the (conservative) American Spectator" as "an attempt by the Spectator, best known for its acerbic and lively commentary, to get into more investigative reporting" with focus on Bill Clinton and now discredited "Whitewater Scandal." Ruddy received funding for a conspiracy book surrounding the Presidency of Bill Clinton and Vincent Foster's suicide from Joseph Farah (founder of World Net Daily) and Farah's organization the Western Journalism Center. This group supplied Ruddy with "additional expense money, funding for Freedom of Information Act requests, legal support and publicity during his" book "research" of a Clinton conspiracy surrounding the suicide of Foster.
Even though the offical investigations, including Kenneth Starr's report, ruled Foster's death a suicide, Dan Moldea wrote a book with encouragement from "from Al Regnery, the head of the conservative Regnery Publishing house" to write about the Foster case. Besides concluding that Foster's death was a suicide, he found the conspiracy theories were started by Robert Hines who when "he starts talking to Reed Irvine at Accuracy in Media, and Christopher Ruddy, who was then at the New York Post, he tells them that there is no exit wound in Foster's head, which was also untrue." Ruddy's ties to the Spectator and the project created unease for some conservatives who "described Ruddy as 'a very heavy breather' whose book contained 'very few direct quotes, but a great many insinuations.'" Nonetheless, Ruddy and Richard Mellon Scaife (who funded the Arkansas Project) remained connected through their dislike of liberals and promotion of conservative ideas and a relationship that started when Ruddy was a reporter for the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Eventually, Scaife became an investor and the third-largest stockholder of NewsMax.
Books
- Ruddy, Christopher. "A special report on the Fiske investigation of the death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr." (Western Journalism Center, 1997)
- Ruddy, Christopher and Limbacher, Carl. Catastrophe: Clinton's Role in America's Worst Disaster. (NewsMax Press, 2002)
- Ruddy, Christopher and Limbacher, Carl. Bitter Legacy: Newsmax.Com Reveals the Untold Story of the Clinton-Gore Years. (NewsMax Press, 2001)
- Ruddy, Christopher. The Strange Death of Vince Foster. (Free Press, 1997)
- Ruddy, Christopher. Vincent Foster: The Ruddy Investigation. (United Publishing Company, 1996)
References
- ""Biography of Christopher Ruddy "". Newsmax. November 29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""Biography of Christopher Ruddy "". Newsmax. November 29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Taken from the quote "Even if Christopher Ruddy's The Strange Death of Vince Foster was considered a conservative hoax book, it was also conservatives who discredited it" Slander (book), Ann Coulter.
- ""'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts "". Washington post. November 29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""Joseph Farah and the World Net Daily"". Con Watch. December 13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""Why Vincent Foster can't rest in peace "". Salon.com. December 13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""Why Vincent Foster can't rest in peace "". Salon.com. December 13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""'Arkansas Project' Led to Turmoil and Rifts "". Washington post. November 29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - ""NEWSMAX MEDIA, INC. SB-2/A#1 REG. NO. 333-83408"". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. November 29.
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- Dan Moldea. "A Washington Tragedy : How the Death of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm" (Regnery Publishing, Inc, 1998)