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In love with Obama

David Shuster — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:57:56 +0000

“I thought Obama was brilliant. He’s so informed. He’s circumspect. He’s articulate. He’s thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there’s never been anything like it.”

Sympathy for Lacrosse Players Misplaced

Terry Moran — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:32:04 +0000

“Perhaps the outpouring of sympathy for [the falsely arrested Duke lacrosse players] Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David Evans is just a bit misplaced…. As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives…. They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.”

“That’s what journalists do”

Diane Sawyer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:51:50 +0000

“You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once, and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, ‘Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?’ And I said, ‘That’s what journalists do.’ And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I’ve ever had.”

Clinton bullied by “monkey posing as a newscaster”

Keith Olbermann — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:05:50 +0000

“A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back…The nation’s marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit……As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.”

–referring to Bill Clinton’s interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda

Keith Olbermann — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:24 +0000

“Fox News is worse than al Quaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”

What bullsh–

Dan Rather — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:18:42 +0000

“When I read through it, all I could say to myself, on each page, is, ‘What bullsh–. What pure, unadulterated bullsh– this whole thing is. What a setup. What a fix.”

–describing his reaction to CBS News’ highly critical internal report on the forged-document story, quoted in New York Magazine.

Conservative talk radio is a waste…of time

Louise Slaughter — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:25:51 +0000

â€œ[Conservative talk radio is] a waste of good broadcast time, and a waste of our airwaves.â€

Media is the watchdog

Bill Moyers — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:22:53 +0000

“If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. I’ll put it another way: if you think that the fire department in your neighborhood is in collusion with the arsonist, you want to know about it. And the fact of the matter is, in the build-up to the [Iraq] war the watchdog didn’t bark and the fire department- in this case the press- was in cahoots with the arsonist.”

Firearms = rise in violence

Pierre Thomas — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:12:46 +0000

“Given the fact that I’ve seen estimates that there are in excess of 200 million firearms already on the street, have we essentially said it’s okay to have the level of violence that we have in this country?”

Hurricane Katrina is Bush’s Monica Lewinsky

Jon Stewart — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:23:21 +0000

“Hurricane Katrina is George Bush’s Monica Lewinsky. One difference, and I’ll say this, the only difference is this: That tens of thousands of people weren’t stranded in Monica Lewinsky’s vagina. That is the only difference.”