Somethings never change sometimes they get worse. This from
***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special***
3:35pm EDT, Monday June 23, 2008
You just can;t make this stuff up. My thanks to Br34ent Bozell
and all he does for us all!
Today, as part of our continuing effort to expand the reach of
Notable Quotables, below is the text of the latest edition of the
MRC's bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes
humorous, quotes in the liberal media.
Unfortunately, I forgot to send this last Monday, so these are
the quotes for the issue the MRC's Rich Noyes compiled and
produced about a week and a half ago and which was posted, with
videos, a week ago.
All these quotes have appeared in previous CyberAlerts, but this
issue provides a compact presentation of the worst bias from a two-
week period.
The three quotes marked with an asterisk * are posted with click-
and-play Flash video, as well as MP3 audio:
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2008/nq20080616.asp
The PDF, sans videos, which matches the hard copy version:
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2008/pdf/June162008.pdf
As always, for the latest evidence of liberal bias, check in with
our blog, NewsBusters.org: Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias:
http://newsbusters.org
Plus TimesWatch, the MRC's daily look at the New York Times:
http://www.timeswatch.org
The archive of past editions of Notable Quotables:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/nq/welcome.asp
The June 16, 2008 edition of Notable Quotables, Volume 21; No. 12:
Liberal Media's "Magic Moment"
* "Let's go now to [The Politico's] Roger Simon. Again your
thoughts on last night's magic moment for a lot of Americans, in
fact, me included. I, that picture is right out of Camelot, as far
as I'm concerned."-- MSNBC's Chris Matthews talking about Barack
Obama clinching the Democratic nomination, June 4 Hardball.
"Barack Obama and his wife Michelle walked into history's arms last
night....Just like JFK's journey as the first Catholic President,
America crossed a milestone....One of America's oldest and ugliest
color lines has been broken, and there's a new bridge for a new
generation."-- Reporter Byron Pitts on the June 4 CBS Evening News.
Objective But "Excited"
CNN's Howard Kurtz: "You obviously are paid to be an objective
journalist, but some part of you must be excited that Barack Obama
won this nomination."
CBS's Byron Pitts: "Well, certainly. I mean, as an African-American
man, this is significant. I mean, look, for my entire life I've been
able to, as a man, dream of doing great things. But a dream I could
never have was being President of the United States. Now, for
instance, my sons, my nephew, they can have that dream. And I think
those kinds of images are important."
-- Exchange on CNN's Reliable Sources, June 8.
Grueling Interview
"I'm curious about your feelings last night. It was an historic
moment. Has it sunk in yet?...When everybody clears out, the staff
is gone, you're in the hotel room at night, and you're alone, do
you say to yourself, 'Son of a gun, I've done this'?"
-- ABC's Charles Gibson to Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama on World News, June 4.
A Ticket George Dreams About
"And this is still on the table, the dream ticket. I mean, and I
think one of the things they're going to be talking about today is
how hard does she [Hillary Clinton] push with her 17 million votes
for that place on the ticket?...I think it's the best ticket for the
Democrats. I think if Barack Obama picks her, they have the best
chance of winning."
-- ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a top official in Bill Clinton's
first presidential campaign and first administration, on Good
Morning America, June 3.
Saying "What We All Believe"
* Co-host Harry Smith: "[Former White House press secretary Scott
McClellan] talks about the failure of mainstream media to hold the
Bush administration's feet to the fire in the run-up to the war. Is
that an allegation that feels to you like it has merit or not?"...
CBS anchor Katie Couric: "I think it's one of the most embarrassing
chapters in American journalism. And I think there was a sense of
pressure from corporations who own where we work and from the
government itself to really squash any kinds of dissent or any kind
of questioning of it. I think it was extremely subtle but very, very
effective. And I think Scott McClellan has a really good point."
-- CBS's The Early Show, May 28.
"[McClellan] claims that President Bush used 'propaganda to sell the
war.' Let's look at what he says in the book: 'And his advisers
confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and
honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public
support during a time of war.' He finally articulates what we all
came to believe."
-- CNN anchor John Roberts to The Politico's Mike Allen on American
Morning, May 28.
No Doubting Their Agenda
"In the book you say the Bush administration made a decision to turn
away from candor and honesty, and you point to the war in Iraq as the
prime example....You seem to stop just short of saying that President
Bush and his administration flat out lied....However you word it,
isn't it lying, Scott? Isn't that what they were doing?"
-- NBC's Meredith Vieira interviewing former White House press
secretary Scott McClellan on Today, May 29.
"Do you feel any sense of guilt that the Iraq war, which you helped
sell to the American people, has resulted in the loss of life for
thousands of American soldiers?"
-- Anchor Katie Couric to McClellan in a CBS Evening News interview,
May 29.
McClellan's Original Book Idea
"I will directly address myths that have been associated with him,
some deliberately perpetuated by activist liberals and some created
by the media....I will look at what is behind the media hostility
toward the President and his administration, and how much of it is
rooted in a liberal bias."
-- From Scott McClellan's original book proposal, as reported by The
Politico, May 31.
McCain's "Fealty" to Right...
"Despite his record, Mr. McCain has been obliged to deal with the
burden that falls on any Republican candidate to deal with the
party's conservative wing, which demands commitment to its goal of
tilting the courts rightward....Mr. McCain has chosen to do
everything in his power to demonstrate his fealty to their
cause....Like Mr. McCain, neither Mr. Reagan nor Mr. Bush was a
lawyer and, adopting the same rhetoric as Mr. McCain is now using,
they became enthusiastic instruments of those conservative lawyers
who were diligent in choosing conservative judicial nominees."
-- New York Times reporter Neil Lewis in a May 28 story. Lewis
applied a total of 18 "conservative" labels in his 1400-word article.
..vs. Not Ideological Obama
"Mr. Obama, on the other hand, is a lawyer and has had a long and
deep interest in the courts and the law....From his remarks in the
Senate opposing the nominations of Judges Roberts and Alito, among
others, Mr. Obama made clear that he would look to name judges with
an expansive, progressive view of the Constitution....Prof. Charles
J. Ogletree Jr. of Harvard Law School, who taught both Mr. Obama and
his wife, Michelle, sought to dispel the idea that Mr. Obama's
nominees would be especially ideological. 'It seems likely to me
that he won't have an agenda of trying to pack the courts to
necessarily move it in a different direction,' Professor Ogletree
said in an interview."-- Lewis later in the same article. The piece
did not include a single "liberal" label.
Hillary Died for Our Sins?
* "As we know this morning, there is another ground-breaking,
crossroads moment. That is for Senator Hillary Clinton, who ran her
campaign on her own terms. This woman, as we said, forged into
determination and purpose her whole life. As someone said, 'No
thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.'"
-- ABC's Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, June 4, quoting a
17th century discourse about Jesus Christ.
So Much for "No Blood for Oil"
"Desperate times call for desperate measures. Some people are doing
anything they can to save on gas, while others are trying to avoid
buying gas altogether....Then there's Jessica Busby, using her bike
to get to a blood donation center two times a week. She pumps out
her
own blood, making $40 a pop so she has enough money to pump gas."
-- CBS reporter Jeff Glor on The Early Show, May 28.
Bush's Economy Is Killing Us
"Something is happening right now that demands attention: People
struggling to pay for the basic necessities -- food, gas, housing --
seeing savings depleted, plans for kids and future threatened. Now
that's a heavy burden, and over time that pressure can cause your
body to start breaking down....The seminal example is the Great
Depression, when the suicide rate jumped 14 to 17 for every
100,000 Americans. And today, with the threat of recession looming
large, the price we pay physically may skyrocket as well."
-- ABC's Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America, June 10.
Suffering on Burgers
"Katie from Sacramento writes: 'We will be spending a lot less. We
usually do rib eye steaks and racks of ribs with lots of sides --
macaroni salad, corn on the cob, baked beans, etc. This year it will
be homemade hamburgers with french fries and soda instead of beer.
The ground beef was bought on clearance a few weeks ago and frozen --
I'll thaw it for weekend use.' To which Laura from California adds:
'Instead of our usual ribs, we are having burgers. As bleak as it
sounds, next year we may have a cup of soup.'"
-- Brian Williams reading viewer e-mails about Memorial Day weekend
hardships, May 27 NBC Nightly News.
Dissent Within MSNBC
"Every Tuesday night Keith is up there as the face of NBC News.
That's a problem....[Tim] Russert has spent 20 years building
credibility. All of a sudden he's taking questions from Keith
Olbermann, the Daily Kos blogger?...What's it going to be like in
the general election now that everyone knows we're the in-house
network of Barack Obama?"
-- A "high level source inside MSNBC," as quoted in a June 3
posting by Steve Krakauer to the TVNewser blog.
Plea to "Fix" America
"I come here today with a request for the Class of '08: We need
you to fix the country....Start with climate. Something tells me
this may be a challenge in the years ahead. Tomorrow's predicted
high for Columbus is 220 degrees."
-- NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams addressing graduates of
Ohio State University, June 8.
A Promise? Let's Hope So
"If McCain gets in, it's going to be very, very dangerous....
It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people.
If they prove me wrong, I'll be checking out a move to Italy.
Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss."
-- Actress/left-wing activist Susan Sarandon as quoted in Britain's
Telegraph newspaper, May 24.
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