Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
David Brock
Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.
When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'
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.
Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.
What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.
I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.
I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.
When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.
You never discount a demagogue.
I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.
Progressives are not going to give up on facts.
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.
I was a bad journalist.
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.
There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.'
We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace common goals. And if there is one thing on which we can all agree, it's this: we cannot concede any ground.
The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.
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.
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.
The right can distort anything it wants.
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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.
I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.
Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.
I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'
All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.
Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.
Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.
There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.
At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.
We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.
I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.
