"The use of slanted terminology is one of the media’s oldest tricks. One recent and particularly glaring example is the dogged use of Teddy...
Framing Through Terminology in Media
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Quotes
An extensive archive of Bill Rusher’s quotes. The section is organized thematically, enabling readers to filter his thought by different themes that he discussed over the years.
Limitations and Ideals of Journalistic Objectivity
"It is not … a matter of achieving, or perhaps even pursuing, some ideal of absolute objectivity. All that can be asked or expected is a reasonable...
Media and Liberal Realignment
"The truth … is that American liberals lost effective control of the Johnson administration and its agenda in or about 1966, when Johnson's Great...
Soviet System’s Unsustainability
"Soviet society is simply too incongruent with the realities of human nature and the laws of economics to survive indefinitely … As the noose of...
Limits of Social Conservatism
"Social conservatism, like economic conservatism, can at times become an offensive caricature of its best self. Cultural pride can freeze into...
Nixon’s China Policy Skepticism
"Reportedly Nixon … regards the détente with Peking as the principal jewel in the notoriously underdecorated diadem of his administration, but the...
UN and Lost Hopes
"Most of the hopes vested in the UN were absurd from the start; virtually all of the rest have been destroyed, one by one, as it has increasingly...
Generational Mandate
"In the great systole and diastole of events, we are about to witness … a profound surge forward and upward, deriving its impetus from ancient and...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
Motives Behind Foreign Aid
"Certainly the motive cannot be frugality; Congress is capable of squandering ten times $222 million in a single afternoon. Nor is there even any...
Communists in U.S. Government
"Certainly it is possible to overstate the role that Communists in government have played in perverting America's policy during the past thirty-five...
Government Response to Downturns
"... The auto industry is a critical part of the nation's economy. But ... by no means the only critical part. If we undertake to guarantee its...