Alex Pareene Quotes
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Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.
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The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.
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For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.
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For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.
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FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires.
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Is there something psychologically wrong with David Gregory? No, besides the usual superhuman vanity of a television professional. He is just not a great host of a news talk show!
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Many people - especially those people who earn livings by convincing editors and bookers that rich and influential strangers consider their thoughts and opinions interesting - have ideas about who should or should not run for president.
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CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.
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Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
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'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
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In many ways, Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck or the late Andrew Breitbart, to name two of his contemporaries with a much larger following.
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There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.
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I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.
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I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.
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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
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The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.
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The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.
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In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.
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In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
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Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
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Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.
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Everyone knows how hard it can be to market to millennials.
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'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.
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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.