David Brock Quotes

• Being right doesn’t mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust.

  David Brock

  Mean, Winning, Credibility

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• Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

  David Brock

  Journey, Sight, Self

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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.

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  Character, Echoes, Media

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• When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

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  Book, Hills, Accurate

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• Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

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  Breathing, Wings, Former

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• Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

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  Media, Levels, Conservative

  "The Republican Noise Machine" by Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2004.

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• The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

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  Media, Criticism, Truth Is

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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.

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  Past, Media, Organization

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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

  Democracy, Journalism, Organized

  David Brock (2004). “The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy”, p.20, Crown

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• Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

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  Editors, Trying, Magazines

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• During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

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  Flow, Misinformation

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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

  Talking, Political, Matter

  "The Republican Noise Machine". Interview with Bradford Pulmer, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

  David Brock

  One Day, Wake Up, Sides

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