“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
“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
“Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.”
― David Brock
“You never discount a demagogue.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“I’ve been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.”
― David Brock
“Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.”
― David Brock
“I didn’t wake up one day and say, you know, ‘Supply-side economics doesn’t make sense.’”
― David Brock
“I’m an incredibly hard worker, I’m incredibly tenacious, and I’m incredibly detail-oriented.”
― David Brock
“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
“There’s every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.”
― David Brock
“Editors of conservative magazines aren’t out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.”
― David Brock
“During the ’90s the flow of misinformation was established.”
― David Brock
“The right can distort anything it wants.”
― David Brock
“I’m a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.”
― David Brock
“When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.”
― David Brock
“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
“I was a bad journalist.”
― David Brock
“I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women’s vote will backfire.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.”
― David Brock
“Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad – especially if they’re Democrats, or environmentalists.”
― David Brock
“Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.”
― David Brock
“There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in ’15.”
― 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.”
― David Brock
“At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.”
― David Brock
“I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.”
― David Brock
“We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.”
― David Brock
“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
“We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
― David Brock
“I want an audience that’s passionate, that can be engaged.”
― David Brock
“I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.”
― David Brock
“Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.”
― David Brock
“Progressives are not going to give up on facts.”
― David Brock
“If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“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
“Money is money.”
― David Brock
“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
“The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.”
― David Brock
“Nobody ever said that Hillary’s nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.”
― David Brock
“Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.”
― David Brock
“The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.”
― David Brock
“Hillary Clinton’s loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.”
― David Brock
“The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.”
― David Brock
“What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.”
― David Brock
“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
“I didn’t say a bad thing about ‘Politico’ in my book.”
― David Brock
“Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.”
― David Brock
“If you want to keep the relationships you have, it’s best not to talk about them.”
― David Brock
“I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s… Not in any meaningful way.”
― David Brock
“Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.”
― David Brock
“The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.”
― David Brock
“I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.”
― David Brock
“Trump’s rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.”
― David Brock
“Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.”
― David Brock
“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
“Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.”
― David Brock
“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
“The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.”
― David Brock
“Writing at the ‘American Spectator’ in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.”
― David Brock
“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
“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
“You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the ‘New York Times’ to keep them accountable.”
― David Brock
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