Quotes by David Brock - Page 2

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
David Brock / Journalist
Crisis
Rise
Constitutional
Fueled
Threatens
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I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
David Brock / Journalist
Apology
Continuing
Media
Needed
Sorry
Matters
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It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself.
David Brock / Journalist
Outrage
Scream
Swear
Boo
Donald
Donald Trump
National Television
Presents
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Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
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Absurd
Each Day
Path
Reckless
Ugly
Closer
Marches
Tweets
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Conspiracy
Right Wing
Sophisticated
Well Known
Conglomerate
Vast
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Clinton
Creation
Job Creation
Legacy
Presidential
Admired
Candidate
Hopes
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Hero
Republican Party
Turns
Candidate
Caricature
Donald
Donald Trump
Xenophobic
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I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.
David Brock / Journalist
Conservative
Meaningful
Conservatives
Maintain
Meaningful Way
Relationships
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Democracy
Journalism
Organized
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
New York
Allegiance
New York Times
Sky
Steadfast
Democrats
Falling
Republicans
Headline
Suddenly
Tend
York
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Builder
Gaps
Field
Identify
Niches
Out Here
Playing Field
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From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.
David Brock / Journalist
Election
Little Rock
Silver
Bullet
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Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
David Brock / Journalist
Funding
Infrastructure
David
Charles
Shift
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Berkeley
Conservative
Correctness
Dozen
Political Correctness
Professional Life
Against
Became
Reaction
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Democracy
Journalism
Organized
Firsthand
Indeed
Pen
Sham
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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.'
David Brock / Journalist
Ought
Candidate
Certain Level
Directly
Supporters
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Adaptation
Different Parts
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Advocacy
Cia
Former
Activists
Terribly
Network
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Acquire
Careless
Erratic
Foreign Policy
Iraq War
Nuclear
Policy
Position
Trump
Weapons
Countries
Matters
Opinions
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Donors
Gop
Middle Class
Misguided
Wealthy
Designed
Policies
Trickle
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Commodity
Film
Imagine
Trading
Named
Broker
Duke
Featured
Pair
Places
Villains
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Leadership
Agree
Common
Embrace
Heal
Trump
Wounds
Concede
Reject
We Cannot
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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.'
David Brock / Journalist
Legitimacy
Witness
Measure
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Matter
Political
Talking
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Factual
Outlets
Reason
Talking
Ad
Less
Far
Far Less
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Comfortable
Conversation
Fighting
Progressive
Future I Am Me
Side
Future Me I Am
Fair
Platform
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
David
Change Law People
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Candidates
Discussion
Funds
Shaping
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Elected Officials
Fox News
Gop
Media
News
Officials
Organization
Past
Time Past Long
Criticizing
Elected
Facto
Time Long Past
Fox
Past Time
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Fulfilling
Profile
Founded
Report
End Of The Day
Terribly
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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.
David Brock / Journalist
Clinton
Detrimental
Ought
Racism
Secretary
Sexism
Tolerate
Various
Obama
Forms
Certainly
Senator
Fortunately
Primary
Secretary Clinton
Seemed
Similar
Subjected
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The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.
David Brock / Journalist
Character
Echoes
Media
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