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Thursday, January 09, 2014

MRC Appearance Alert: Bozell on FNC’s Hannity Tonight Thursday January 9, 2014

MRC Appearance Alert: Bozell on FNC’s Hannity Tonight

6:45 PM EST, Thursday, January 9, 2014

    MRC President Brent Bozell is scheduled to appear tonight (Thursday) on the Fox News Channel’s ‘Hannity,’ where he’ll provide expert comment for the “Media Mash” segment. He should appear with Hannity about twenty minutes into the January 9 program, so 10:20 PM EST9:20 PM CST8:20 PM MST7:20 PM PST.

    Hannity will re-run at 1 AM EST, 12 midmight CST, 11 PM MST and 10 PM PST.

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    Scheduled topics for Thursday’s night’s Hannity: 

    # Networks Flood the Zone with Massive Coverage Of Chris Christie Scandal. See: 
http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/theres-already-17-times-more-coverage-christie-scandal-last-six-months-irs

    # NBC's Todd: Christie's Media 'Free Ride' is Over, 'Welcome to the Vetting Process' for 2016. Check: 
http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbcs-todd-christies-media-free-ride-over-welcome-vetting-process-2016

    # Liberal Media Suggest Robert Gates’ Memoir an “Act of Betrayal.” Go to: 
http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-ungrateful-bob-gates-blindsided-white-house-blistering-new-memoir

    # CNN’s Cuomo: Trying to Pay for New Spending = Holding People Hostage. Details:
http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnns-cuomo-slaps-republicans-taking-americans-hostage-over-spending-cuts

    # CNN’s Candy Crowley: ‘Why Would I Become a Republican’ If I’m Unemployed or on Minimum Wage? See: 
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2014/01/05/candy-crowley-if-i-m-unemployed-or-minimum-wage-why-would-i-become-re
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

MRC Alert: Shameful: NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Links Boston Explosion to GOP, Others Pile On


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MRC Alert: Shameful: NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Links Boston Explosion to GOP, Others Pile On

Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 09:15 AM ET

1. Shameful: New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Links Boston Explosion to GOP, Others Pile On
Never let a tragedy go to waste. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Monday quickly used the explosions in Boston for political gain, linking the Republican Party to the horrific act. At 4:10pm, Kristof tweeted, "explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment." Kristof then tweeted a link to a Washington Post story about Senator Charles Grassley questioning the fitness of Obama's Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms nominee. Kristof's comments earned a rebuke from the liberal Politico. Dylan Byers reported, "Kristof's tweet earned a number of responses expressing either anger or bafflement."


2. Chris Matthews: 'Normally' Domestic Terrorists 'Tend to Be on the Far Right'
Just hours after explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday, Chris Matthews speculated, "Normally domestic terrorists, people, tend to be on the far right." He then reconsidered and suggested, "...That’s not a good category, just extremists, let’s call them that." During live coverage, the Hardball host highlighted a possible explosion at John F. Kennedy's presidential library and thought this could be a personal attack on the Democratic Party: "...But going after the Kennedy Library, not something at Bunker Hill, not something from the Freedom Trail or anything that kind of historic, but a modern political figure of the Democratic Party. Does that tell you something?" (Police are now considering the incident at the JFK library to be fire-related.) One can only guess what it tells Chris.


3. CBS Ends Blackout on Gosnell Trial, Spotlights How 'Firestorm' Went 'Viral'; ABC, NBC Still Out to Lunch
CBS finally ended their on-air coverage blackout of the Kermit Gosnell's murder trial on Monday's CBS This Morning, airing two segments on the story a month after opening arguments began. Jan Crawford acknowledged that the Gosnell case "has received little national news coverage". Meanwhile, ABC and NBC's morning and evening newscasts continue to ignore the ongoing legal proceedings against the abortionist. Crawford pointed out how conservatives "accused the media of ignoring the story because what it called a bias in favor of abortion rights", and how those "charges went viral on Twitter". She even played a sound bite from a former attorney for the murder suspect who questioned the national news media's lack of coverage of the trial.


4. NBC Mentions Criticism of Media Censoring Gosnell Abortion Case...On Its Website
While NBC News continued to ignore the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell on its airwaves, an NBCNews.com article posted Saturday made brief mention of the media blackout: "Conservative bloggers, including at RedState and National Review, have lashed out this week at national media organizations for not paying enough attention to the gruesome trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider accused of killing seven late-term fetuses after they were born alive." Careful to use the term "fetuses," rather than "infants" or "children," staff writer Erin McClam did not address the validity of the criticism or acknowledge the fact that her network has refused to give any air time to the trial.


5. ABC Is So Intent on Pushing Gun Control, the Network Twice Played Rival NBC's SNL Parody
ABC has aggressively pushed Barack Obama's gun control scheme in recent weeks. But on Sunday and Monday, the network resorted to playing clips of a rival channel's comedy show, Saturday Night Live. Sunday's World News and Monday's Good Morning America both touted Democratic talking points, lamenting how hard it is to get such legislation passed. On Monday morning, Jon Karl hyped, "Congress is just not eager to enact new gun laws. A fact lampooned on Saturday Night Live." He then featured a clip of comedian Jay Pharoah impersonating Obama. Pharoah mocked, "This week, the Senate voted 68-31 to begin debating the idea of discussing gun control. Let me say that again. They have agreed to think about talking about gun control." On Sunday's World News, reporter Rena Ninan didn't even bother coming up with much of a justification. She simply introduced, "Saturday Night Live, overnight."


6. Harrison Ford Tells NBC's Gregory Obama Doing 'Wonderful Job'; Blames Media for Political Divisiveness
At the end of an interview with actor Harrison Ford for the NBC Meet the Press web-based feature Press Pass, about his role in a new film about Jackie Robinson, host David Gregory turned to politics: "I know you're politically conscious, politically active. What is your view of the state of things, and the state of the President's performance?"  Ford replied: "I think the President is doing, you know, all things considered, a wonderful job." He then blamed the media for political division in country: "I wish that the country were not so fractious as it is at the moment. I blame a lot of that on the press and the news business. And I wish it wasn't so. And I think it makes things very difficult..."
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Friday, March 08, 2013

Wednesday March 6, 2013 Media Research Center Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

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Wednesday March 6, 2013 Media Research Center Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

Related:

http://www.mrc.org/notable-quotables/journalists-adopt-obamas-sequester-hysteria

http://www.mrc.org/media-reality-check/sequester-scare-two-thirds-news-stories-devoted-hyping-budget-hysteria

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnn-catches-obamas-falsehood-sequester-networks-barely-report-it

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cnn-gives-8-times-coverage-beyonces-lip-sync-obamas-falsehood

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/abcs-jon-karl-skeptically-questions-obamas-ending-white-house-tours

http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/krauthammer-obama-charm-offensive-because-media-could-no-longer-cover-him

MRC Alert Special: Latest Notable Quotables

    As a bonus for CyberAlert subscribers, below is the text of the March 4 edition of Notable Quotables, the MRC's bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. It was compiled by the MRC's Rich Noyes.

    Highlights from this issue: The media freak out over the puny budget sequester, with CNN panicking over it’s “draconian” effect, while ABC ridiculously warns of “jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free” and CBS threatens that U.S. troops “could pay with their lives.” On his radio show, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz foams about how the sequester would cut “damn near a third” of the budget -- in reality, the cuts amount to barely 2 percent of total spending.

    Also: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spends President’s Day dreaming about Barack Obama showing up on Mount Rushmore; NBC’s Chuck Todd frets about conservatives not going on liberal talk shows because their staffers “actually believe” the “mythology” that the media have a liberal bias; and a Hollywood screenwriter scolds the Tea Party for wanting to return to the “psychotic individualism” of the “Reagan era.”

    To read it online, posted with five videos with matching MP3 audio:  http://www.mrc.org/notable-quotables/journalists-adopt-obamas-sequester-hysteria

    Quotes marked with [VIDEO] have an accompanying video file that you can access by visiting the online version.

    The three-page, fully-formatted, full-color PDF good for printing:http://www.mrc.org/sites/default/files/documents/Mar42013.pdf

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    Now the quotes featured in the March 4 Notable Quotables, Vol. 26; No. 5:

As Expected, Journalists Adopt Obama's Panicky Hype

  Host Chris Wallace: "The White House has already put out — there's going to be kids, thousands of kids thrown out of Head Start; we won't have food safety inspectors to make sure our food is safe — you know, all kinds of dire things.... They are saying we will make it hurt."
  Panelist Juan Williams: "Oh, yeah. And I think the news media will play into that at every level."
— Exchange on Fox News Sunday, February 17.

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[VIDEO] "Deadline day. Hours, now, until massive government cuts go into effect that could impact every American: jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free."
— Fill-in co-host Josh Elliot at the top of ABC's Good Morning America, March 1.

"Time is up. In just hours, President Obama will order $85 billion in cuts. The Army's chief of staff tells us why he fears troops could pay with their lives."
— Co-host Charlie Rose teasing an upcoming segment on CBS This Morning, March 1.

"It sounds like a disaster movie: Childcare canceled for tens of thousands of kids, long airport security lines, flight delays with a shortage of controllers, and military cuts that will leave us ‘second rate,' according to the Defense Secretary."
— ABC's David Kerley on World News, February 24.

"Deep impact: The new fight over money in Washington. Another deadline rapidly approaching, along with deep budget cuts poised to have a major impact on the military, law enforcement, even food inspection...."
— Brian Williams opening the February 19 NBC Nightly News.

[VIDEO] "Watch out! Like the asteroid headed to earth, they're coming: $86 billion in automatic budget cuts. And don't bother trying to duck....So we let these draconian budget cuts take place. You know who's going to suffer the most? It's not going to be Congress. It's not going to be the President,... it's going to be us."
— CNN anchor Carol Costello on Newsroom, February 19.


Say Bye-Bye to Beef Jerky

"For more than three decades, Western's Smokehouse, a family-run meat processing operation in rural northeastern Missouri, has specialized in the art of jerky. Its varieties include smoked Mandarin teriyaki beef, smoked pepper beef and smoked original beef. But now, there is concern at the plant. The automatic federal spending cuts have raised the possibility that the United States Department of Agriculture will have to furlough some of its meat inspectors.... ‘I'm nervous about it,' said Kevin Western, the owner of the company, which is based in Greentop, Mo., and was started by his father, Sam, in 1978. ‘The livelihood of our business depends on meat inspection.'"
— New York Times reporter John Eligon, February 26.


Math-Challenged Ed Fumes: You Can't Cut "Damn Near a Third" of the Budget

[AUDIO] "Now you've got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That's damn near a third....You can't take 30, you can't take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can't do it! It's impossible!"
— Radio host and MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz on his February 25 radio show. In fact, $85 billion is a puny 2% of the $3.5 trillion annual federal budget, not 30%.


It's "Dumb" to Investigate Who Proposed the Sequester

  [VIDEO] Anchor Chuck Todd: "So Republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a Montana Democratic Senator, Max Baucus, by the way who's up for reelection in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester."
  Clip of Senator Max Baucus: "The President is a part of this. The White House recommended it, frankly, back in August of 2011. And, so, now we're feeling the effect of it."
  Todd: "Of all the dumb things Washington does, this ‘who started it' argument has proven to be one of the dumber ones, especially since we're so close to the actual cuts going into place."
— MSNBC's The Daily Rundown, February 21.


Blame Boehner's Language, Not Obama's Obstinance

"A few weeks ago, you said that the President didn't have the guts to do what needed to be done on the budget. Today, you said the Senate has to get off its ass. Those don't sound like the words of a man seeking to bring people together to compromise."
— Anchor Scott Pelley to House Speaker John Boehner in an interview shown on the February 26 CBS Evening News.


Fantasizing About Obama on Mount Rushmore

"Is Barack Obama going for it? Is he set on becoming one of the great presidents in history? I'm not talking about Mount Rushmore, but perhaps the level right below it. I'm talking, to use his word, ‘transformational.'... If he [Obama] were hearing us talking about him, maybe, mounting Mount Rushmore, getting up there with the great presidents, secretly, not what he would say to other people, what would he be thinking — ‘that's exactly what I'm doing'?"
— MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 18.


MSNBC Brain Trust Volunteers for Hillary 2016

[VIDEO] Salon's Joan Walsh: "I think if she [Hillary Clinton] runs again, she really can't run as that front-runner. It cannot be that inevitability campaign that she ran in 2007, and she knows that. She's got to be about the future."
Host Chris Matthews: "If you're watching, Madam Secretary, all three of us have brilliant ideas. All of us have great ideas. And I especially put myself in that group with Joan and David [Corn]. We know how to do this, we'll get you in there."
— MSNBC's Hardball, February 25.


"Red-Baiting" at the Hagel Hearings

"Do you have any regrets about the way that [Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's] confirmation battle was undertaken by his critics?...I mean, wasn't there a lot of Red-baiting and other kinds of, really unfair questions asked in a public forum?"
— Anchor Andrea Mitchell to GOP Senator Roger Wicker, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, February 27.


Scolding Ted Cruz: A "Potentially Dangerous Demagogue"

  NPR's Nina Totenberg: "I actually know Cruz because he, for many years he argued cases for Texas in the United States Supreme Court. He is very smart. He is very glib, and he made sure that the attention was focused on him. This was not a distraction. This was Ted Cruz doing this [going after Chuck Hagel]."
  Politico's Evan Thomas: "You need to watch this guy, because there are a lot of demagogues out there, but not that many who are that smart. He is really, really smart, and that makes him potentially dangerous."
— Exchange on Inside Washington, February 22.


Can't Confuse Him With a "Fair and Balanced" Journalist

"That's not my slogan, to be ‘fair and balanced.' My thing is about accuracy and the truth. Just because someone has another point of view or opinion, I don't believe in false fairness. I just believe in the truth."
— CNN anchor Don Lemon in a January 25 interview with the Dallas Voice.


Dumb Conservatives Actually Believe Liberal Bias "Myth"

[VIDEO] "There are fewer and fewer Republicans who will go on non-Fox shows....I think that the mythology of the big, bad non-conservative media has gotten into some offices...and then these guys, they actually believe the spin that's out there, ‘Oh, my God, that's what the mainstream media does, they do anything to disrupt the conservative agenda.' And so literally, you only — Lindsey [Graham], John McCain, you know, that's been my — I just fear that it's sort of like this whole — there's this whole sort of this, the mythology of this, the media's out to get conservatives is believed among more and more actual staffers."
— NBC political director Chuck Todd on MSNBC's Morning Joe, February 19, talking about why so few conservative members of Congress are willing to go on liberal talk shows.


Obama vs. "Hard Right," "Hamas" Republicans

[VIDEO] "It is the hard right. Every time the President — you talk to people at the White House. They say, ‘This President, whatever you think of the politics, doesn't know who to talk to on the Hill.' There is no Boehner, he's just a front man. Eric Cantor has his got wet finger in the air trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Who is the President talking to? Is it just a clique of, a bunch of right-wingers who don't want to talk to anybody? Are they Hamas? Who are they out there?"
— Host Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, February 20.


You're Either With Obama, or With the Killers

[VIDEO] "I personally don't want to be part of a movement to keep those semi-automatics flying into the hands of all sorts of people as they are today, the hoarders, the survivalists, the paranoid, the criminal and downright politically nutty. Why? Because the next mass shooter could well emerge out of this pack. Check the shooters of John F. Kennedy and Jerry Ford, who got shot at twice. Look at the men that shot Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and George Wallace. They all had political motives and they all had guns. Got them easy and put them easily to use. And if you're not against this movement, you're with it."
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, February 27.


Imaginary Conservative on Reagan: "I Hope the Bastard Bleeds to Death"

[VIDEO] "Frankly, I hope the bastard bleeds to death on the operating table."
— "Charles Duluth" of the Conservative Statesman magazine, who is a KGB operative in Washington, DC, in the February 20 episode of FX's The Americans drama, set on the 1981 day when President Reagan was shot.


A "Frightening" Return to "Psychotic" Reagan-Era Values

"So you have people like these Tea Party people protesting government and then asked if they really want to give up their Social Security payments. And they don't seem to know that, that is actually part of what government is. There's a rejection of the sort of basic idea of human community behind the Reagan, behind Reagan-era ideology that is really frightening. And it leads us to terrible, terrible places. And now that we're facing challenges like climate change that absolutely demand a global collective response, an organized global collective response. We have no hope for survival as a species if we continue down the path of this kind of psychotic individualism."
— Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner on PBS's Charlie Rose, February 14.


PUBLISHER: L. Brent Bozell III
EDITORS: Brent H. Baker, Rich Noyes, Tim Graham
DEPUTY RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Dickens
TIMESWATCH: Clay Waters
NEWS ANALYSTS: Scott Whitlock, Brad Wilmouth,
Matthew Balan, Kyle Drennen and Matt Hadro
INTERNS: Jeffrey Meyer, Matt Vespa and Paul Bremmer

    END Reprint of the March 4 Notable Quotables
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Media Research Center: The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back

Media Research Center: The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back


Latest Media Reality Checks


The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back
During Month-Long Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Party Conservatives as Ignorant, Irrational, Irresponsible and Even Terrorists
By: Rich Noyes | View PDF Version 
Monday, August 01, 2011 3:24 PM EDT


For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government.

The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering whether the Tea Partiers in Congress actually knew how things worked, or referring to them as children), to outright hostile (likening the Tea Party to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups). Here are some of the choicer examples MRC has collected over the past 30 days:


Just a Bunch of Ignorant Boobs


“Do you think that Republicans – particularly those in the freshman class over in the House – understand just how serious this debt limit crisis is?...Do you think they understand what might happen if you can’t raise this debt limit here?”
— Bob Schieffer to Senator Jon Kyl on Face the Nation, July 24.

“The question, I think, some people might be asking is, do you think that members of the Tea Party caucus know how to govern, or are they — do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?”
— Co-host Ann Curry to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s Today, August 1.


Tea Party = Irresponsible Children


“On one side are those kids in the back seat, Tea Party members of Congress and their stay-at-home blogging cheerleaders who either don’t understand or don’t care about the consequences of default — of the U.S. not meeting its obligations, of us looking like a joke. They’re willing to risk calamity, even embrace it, just to show how dedicated they are to not raising the debt ceiling. On the other side are Democrats and some Republicans who understand this is not a game.”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 14.

“Some people say that the Republican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party. One of our Facebook followers sent in an interesting analogy and said, ‘Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?’ and this person said, ‘It’s like letting the teenager in the family run the family budget.’ I mean, there’s some truth in that.”
— Moderator Bob Schieffer to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Face the Nation, July 31.


Conservatives Are Unhinged Lunatics


“The Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms....The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....The members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name.”
— New York Times columnist David Brooks, July 5.

“You can hear the alarm going off, in this case the debt ceiling, which rational people agree needs to be raised, and yet every day there’s no deal.”
— Brian Williams on the July 26 NBC Nightly News.


Tea Party = Extremists


“Watching the extraordinary polarization in Washington today, many people have pointed the finger at the Tea Party. It’s ideologically extreme, refuses to compromise, and cares more about purity than problem solving. I happen to agree with much of that critique, but it doesn’t really answer the question, why has the Tea Party become so prominent? Why is it able to dominate Washington?”
— CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on his Fareed Zakaria GPS, July 24.

Howard Fineman: “What’s going on here, as I see it, is a kind of slow motion secession. This is an ending of the social compact. This is two, three generations worth of agreement about Social Security, about Medicare, about the role of the federal government. The Tea Party people are saying, we want to secede from that society....”
Chris Matthews: “You know what this sounds like? You know what this sounds like? When I spent two years in Southern Africa. It sounds like what the whites talked about doing. Eventually going into some sort of little circle, like Custer’s last stand against the United States.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 25.


Stubborn and Difficult


“I think the frustration the President has, is ‘Look, I’ve come three-quarters the way to your position, and you’re not willing to give me that last 25 percent that I can use to say to Democrats there is something in this for you.’ So I think the intransigence of the Republicans is really beginning to wear on him and just strikes him as more and more unreasonable.”
— New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler in a podcast for the paper’s “The Caucus” political blog posted July 15.

“A lot of folks are saying the current, you know, ‘My way or the highway, gotta have it all’ climate in Washington is really unworthy of the USA and makes us look like a banana republic.”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin, July 19.

“The Tea Party freshmen, upon whom all of this is being laid, really, who say compromise is a dirty word — are they complicating the picture?”
— Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week, July 24.



Hostage-Takers and Terrorists


“The GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology....These people are willing to go right into Armageddon, not face the warning signs. Go right off the cliff...”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 5.

Salon’s Joan Walsh: “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right....This game of chicken, in particular, is deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking. And you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.”
Host Chris Matthews: “I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree. It’s terrorism.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 5.

Pat Buchanan: “They [conservatives] say, ‘This is the wrong way to go. We don’t believe in it. We’ve committed against it. We can’t do it, Mr. President, you’re asking us to break our word and do something we think is not going to work, and we’re not going to do it, sir.’”...
Co-host Mika Brzezinski: “So, I think the, what was the answer to my question that who the hostage taker is, Willie?”
MSNBC’s Willie Geist: “Sounds like Pat’s boys. Pat’s boys are holding the hostage.”
Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown: “I think they’re the suicide bombers in all of this.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 6.

“Wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....The blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home....So let’s remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let’s also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots.”
— New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, July 24.

“If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.”
— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, July 27.


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