Eleanor Clift
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| Born |
Eleanor Roeloffs July 7, 1940 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Education | Hunter College |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) |
The Daily Beast MSNBC |
| Spouse(s) | William Brooks Clift, Jr. Tom Brazaitis (1989 - 2005†) |
| Children | Edward Montgomery Clift Woodbury Blair Clift Robert Anderson Clift |
| Relatives | Montgomery Clift (brother-in-law) |
| Website | eleanorclift.com |
Eleanor Clift (born July 7, 1940) is an American liberal political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is currently a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She was a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight".
Clift is a board member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).
Clift was born Eleanor Roeloffs in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of German immigrants from the island of Föhr in the North Sea. She grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, where her parents ran a deli in Sunnyside. Clift was raised a Lutheran and attended Hofstra University and Hunter College. She began her career in 1963 as a secretary at Newsweek, and is one of the first female reporters to earn an internship from the secretary pool. Clift later became White House correspondent for Newsweek and has covered every presidential campaign for the magazine since 1976. She began a broadcast career on The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C., as a Friday week-in-review panelist. She became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program.
During the Clinton administration, she was jokingly referred to as "Eleanor Rodham Clift" or "Eleanor Rodham Clifton", because of her fierce defense of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.
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