David Brock
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.
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.
I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.
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.
I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.
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.
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'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.
There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.
The right can distort anything it wants.
I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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.
I was a bad journalist.
I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.
Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.
I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'
All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.
Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.
Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.
There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.
Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.
At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.
We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.
I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
Progressives are not going to give up on facts.
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.
I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.
Money is money.
Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.
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.
The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.
Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.
The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.
The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.
You never discount a demagogue.