Rusher Centennial Inc., Author at Bill Rusher Centennial

Media as Partisan Actors

"… in recent decades the principal media in the United States, responding to liberal intellectual trends once dominant but now much less so, have...

William Rusher strengthened the conservative movement as an energizing leader, a formidable debater, an incisive columnist, and an engaged mentor...

"While mistakes ought to be admitted as promptly and economically as possible, care ought to be taken to fill the resulting hole in the line of...

"Where, in the case of the Kennedy presidency—the apotheosis of an imperial clan if there ever was one—was the media's alleged “inherent bias...

"When the media win a court case, we all hear about the victory; when they lose, “the issue” (in the words of the New York Times upon one such...

"When a man is in his thirties, the idea of serving in somebody else's presidential administration can be exciting; in one's fifties, it merely...

"What's a nice guy like you doing in a party like that? … The Democratic party you have fought and bled for is gone." Source: If Not Us, Who?...

"What do we mean by “winning”? If the objective is to achieve some quick result—to induce a particular action, or even simply rouse an immediate...

"We labored for at least two decades to persuade the rest of the world that we are a paper tiger. We succeeded, and the world is acting...

"Watergate teaches us, too, the virtues of having politicians, rather than mere managers and technicians, operating the levers of ultimate power....

"to resist the inevitable as stoutly as one can … it may not be inevitable after all—my notion of the future may be mistaken. In the second place,...

"There is no sadder chapter in the whole history of American conservatism than that which describes how Richard Nixon, in whom the majority of...