Editing Eleanor Clift (section)

==Broadcasting career==
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.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}

She became{{when|date=January 2021}} a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]'', which she has compared to "a televised food fight".<ref name=hws>[http://www.hws.edu/news/speakers/transcripts/cliftpresforum.asp Press Forum]</ref>

Her role as a [[talk show]] panelist has led to appearances in movies. Clift played a panelist in ''[[Rising Sun (1993 film)|Rising Sun]]'' (1993) and appeared as herself in ''[[Dave (film)|Dave]]'' (1993), ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' (1996) and ''[[Getting Away with Murder (1996 film)|Getting Away with Murder]]'' (1996). She was portrayed by Jan Hooks on Saturday Night Live.  She was also portrayed by actress Mary Ann Burger in the 2009 film ''[[Watchmen (2009 film)|Watchmen]]''.

In 2008, she wrote ''Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics'', which intertwines the events of her own life and those of the nation concerning the [[Terri Schiavo]] case during a two-week period in March 2005. In it she examines the way people in the United States deal with death, publicity and personality.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

She was a keynote speaker at the 2012 [[Washington & Jefferson College]] Energy Summit, where the [[Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index]] was unveiled.<ref>{{cite web | title =Eisenhower and Clift Headline first W&J Energy Summit| work =W&J Magazine | publisher =[[Washington & Jefferson College]] | date =Summer 2012| page=11 | url =http://issuu.com/vanikdesign/docs/wj_mag_summer12 | format =PDF | access-date = December 16, 2012}}</ref>

Contributing to the anthology ''Our American Story'' (2019), Clift addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative and focused on America as a social movement, [[writing]], "[S]ocial movements are America's story, and they're my story as a woman born in the middle of the last century whose life was made measurably better amid these broad strokes of history."<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Claybourn |editor-first1=Joshua |editor-link1=Joshua Claybourn |title=Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative |date=2019 |publisher=Potomac Books |location=Lincoln, NE |isbn=978-1640121706 |pages=160–167 }}</ref>

===Honors===
*[[Hoover Institution]] William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow September 16–22, 2002<ref>
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