Quotes by Howard Fineman - Page 1

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.
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Cronkite
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It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.
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Credibility
Knows
Media
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A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
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Cosmos
Doe
Objectivity
Exist
Objective
Purely
Viewpoint
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If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
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Witness
Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Iraqis
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Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?
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Jesus
Believe
Son
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To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.
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Cities
Duke University
Dukes
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Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.
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Party
Tea
Unions
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The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
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Crusades
Ideas
Majority
Noble
Vietnam
Watergate
Idea
Good Idea
Perhaps
Press
Seemed
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
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Oath
Office
Rice
Standards
By The Time
Underway
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When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
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Hussein
Iraq
People
Right Thing
Saddam
People Will Right
Bush
Invade
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Proving
Saddam Hussein
The Right Thing
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A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
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Destroyed
Dying
Eye
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Mean
Party
Democrats
Political Party
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There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.
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America
Country
Essence
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We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It`s time for a new theory.
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Clinton
Names
Too Much
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If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.
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Car
Independent
People
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The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
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War
Aftermath
Consensus
Country
Dominance
Mainstream
Media
Notion
Temporary
World War Ii
Neutral
War World Country
Gained
Govern
Moderate
National Media
World War
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Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
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Men
Challenges
Classroom
People
Staff
Thrust
Picture
American People
Andy
Anticipated
Attack
Card
Chief
Grave
Suddenly
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If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.
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Chance
Argument
Troops
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Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
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Jobs
Fbi
Odd
Odd One
Retrospect
Rice
Terrorist
Acted
Closely
Domestic
Pressed
Threats
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In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.
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Campaigns
Tools
Years
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I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
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Dogma
Notion
Watergate
Check
Confirm
Extent
Popular
Sources
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I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.
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Opportunity
Long
Views
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