David Brock Quotations

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.

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

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.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

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

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

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

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Robertson's vitriol is not appropriate for children, or for anyone else, for that matter,

Responsible news outlets should think twice before providing him a platform from which to peddle his inappropriate and inaccurate claims,

an irresponsible use of the public airwaves, as well as a call for the Bush administration to violate the executive order banning assassination.

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

The subject of a vicious and false attack. Those are the kinds of things people should be looking for and be very careful and concerned about.

School don't need to start the same week as the Bristol race

Radio content is never captured and catalogued in a systematic way, so there's no way to hold radio show hosts accountable for their words.

You simply can't have 90 percent of email and phone and fax traffic coming into a newspaper ombudsman from just one ideological perspective.

They told us not to even get a motel, due to there's not going to be any motels around

For CNN to tap an unapologetic preacher of hate signals a desperate and misguided ploy for ratings without regard for the thousands of Americans Beck has offended with his malicious commentary.

That seems a fairly minor point to me.

I'd of liked to have stayed in a motel one night you know just to stay with him, maybe go out to eat