You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
— David Brock
When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.
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.
Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.
Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.
It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself.
Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them.
There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.'
The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.
Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.
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.
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.
If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.
I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.
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.
It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy.
From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.
When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.
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.
Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.
Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.
What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.
Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.
Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.
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.
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.
Progressives are not going to give up on facts.
I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.
We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.
When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.
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.
The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace common goals. And if there is one thing on which we can all agree, it's this: we cannot concede any ground.
I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.
I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.
I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.
You never discount a demagogue.
The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.
Money is money.
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.
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
