David Brock Quotes
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The right can distort anything it wants.
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When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
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When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.
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If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.
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What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.
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We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
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The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.
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Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.
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I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.
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Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
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Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
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The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
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Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.
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Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.
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Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
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It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
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Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
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The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.
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If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them.
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It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.
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You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
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You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
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There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
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It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump.