Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/bestof/2005/best_large_file.asp" target="_blank">http://www.mediaresearch.org/n otablequotables/bestof/2005/best_large_file.asp</a> Lots of good video and sound clips... Here is a classic, good for a laugh... >>Co-host Matt Lauer: "Pain at the pump. Gas prices are going sky high. I paid $2.94 a gallon over the weekend to fill up the car." Co-host Katie Couric: "It’s ridiculous. I had to take out a loan to fill up my minivan. It’s crazy." — Exchange at the top of NBC’s Today, August 15. Couric makes about $15,000,000 a year. << Gee, does she get a second mortgage when she goes out to dinner?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas: "Is this attack [on public broadcasting’s budget] going to make NPR a little less liberal?" NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg: "I don’t think we’re liberal to begin with, and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that." Thomas: "I do listen to you and you’re not that liberal, but you’re a little bit liberal." Totenberg: "No, I don’t think so. I don’t think that’s a fair criticism, I really don’t — any more than, any more than you would say that Newsweek is liberal." Thomas: "I think Newsweek is a little liberal." — Exchange on Inside Washington, June 26.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer "The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness. Too often, we wear liberalism on our sleeve and are intolerant of other lifestyles and opinions....We’re not very subtle about it at this paper: If you work here, you must be one of us. You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I’ve been in communal gatherings in The Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democrats." — Washington Post "Book World" editor Marie Arana in a September 29 contribution to the Post’s "daily in-house electronic critiques," as quoted by Post media reporter Howard Kurtz in an October 3 article. ____________________________ Host Hugh Hewitt: "Are there members of the White House press corps, Terry, who actually hate Bush?" ABC White House correspondent Terry Moran: "I would say the answer to that is yes." Hewitt: "And what percentage of them, do you think that amounts to?" Moran: "Uh, small, I would say, but some big fish." Hewitt: "What’s your guess about the percentage of the White House press corps that voted for Kerry?" Moran: "Oh, very high. Very, very high." Hewitt: "95 percent?" Moran: "No, I don’t think that high....Upwards of 70 [percent], maybe higher....I would say very, very high...." — Exchange on the May 18 Hugh Hewitt Show, a nationally-syndicated weekday radio program. [55]
Originally Posted By cmpaley O M G ! ©MNG A right-wing media watchdog found liberals in the media. The next thing you hear is a left-wing media watchdog finding right-wingers in the media. When will it ever end?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I notice that among the judges is Robert Novak. How were his own clips left out?
