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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.

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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Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

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I was a bad journalist.

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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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The right can distort anything it wants.

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

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Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.

David Brock

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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Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

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You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

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I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.

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

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Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

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Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

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I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

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The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.

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

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Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.

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

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

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When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

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It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump.

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We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

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I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.

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

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I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.

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I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

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

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