Words matter. These are the best David Brock Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.’
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.
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.’
Progressives are not going to give up on facts.
We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
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 didn’t wake up one day and say, you know, ‘Supply-side economics doesn’t make sense.’
I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
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.
If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.
Editors of conservative magazines aren’t out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.
I was a bad journalist.
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.
Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad – especially if they’re Democrats, or environmentalists.
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.
The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
I’m comfortable on the progressive side. But I’m still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It’s fair to say that that conversation doesn’t interest me as much.
The right can distort anything it wants.
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.
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.
Writing at the ‘American Spectator’ in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself.
Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that’s what we’re going to do.
Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.
I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s… Not in any meaningful way.
I want an audience that’s passionate, that can be engaged.
I’ve been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in ’15.
I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women’s vote will backfire.
Bill Clinton’s legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
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.
I’m a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
Money is money.
There’s every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
I’m an incredibly hard worker, I’m incredibly tenacious, and I’m incredibly detail-oriented.
If you want to keep the relationships you have, it’s best not to talk about them.
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
It’s important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy.
Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.
