... yeah, and he's a patriot, so don't denigrate his service, or I'll boot you right off the set. |
[A check with the Fox News Network broadcaster confirms Clooney's disclosure.] It's an excellent movie, ... Really excellent. |
[A surprised Wallace asks O'Reilly if he is serious.] No spin, ... I mean, I'm serious about everything. |
[As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on] The Factor ... I'm not going to dress you down anymore. |
[As much as the timing, the choice of celebrities for the telethon was also highly suspect.] The night's lineup looked more like a meeting roster for the American Communist Party than anything else, ... What, was Tom Selleck too busy? Drew Carrey likes guns, where was he? It's like they didn't even try. |
a real debate on the issues, not his silly name-calling. |
admire the philosophy of the Third Reich. |
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private. Keep it private. |
As the tree is bent, so it will grow. |
At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse. |
But I don't have any confidence in Donald Rumsfeld at this point. Do you, Colonel Cowan? I don't think he's leveling with the American people. I think that he doesn't have enough people over there to clean up the corruption, or fight the insurgency, or provide security for the oil pipeline, which they need [for] the money. I don't have any confidence in the secretary of defense at this point. |
Commentary and opinion is not spin. What spin is, is taking a set of circumstances, all right, and taking that circumstance and making it not what it is. |
Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil. Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If you're not providing controversy and excitement, people won't listen, or watch. |
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. |
did see people who were going into open stores ... and gathering whatever they could, whether it be sodas or chips. The Wal-Mart right on the beach had been blown entirely out and all the contents had been strewn out the back and people were coming with trucks and backing up to that lot and taking whatever they could from the Wal-Mart. |