#pa

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#crucial role #decisions #educated #gatekeepers #helping

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cannot #conservatives #general #happen #know

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#adherents #any #candidates #claimed #class

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#champagne #hate #i #more #more than anything

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#campaign #catastrophic #consequences #could #deception

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#demands #make #paid #real #responsible

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#itself #never #patterns #political #repeats

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#every #few #i #i am #idiot

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#every #i #just #past #spent

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#admiration #am #been #cnn #company