David Brock Quotes

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David Brock

Profession : Author

Birth : November 2, 1962

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.

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Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

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Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

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You never discount a demagogue.

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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.

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

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I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.

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The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

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When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

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What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.

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Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

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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.

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

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If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

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Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.

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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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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.

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

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Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

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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.

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