"One of the most vicious tactics used by the media on public figures they dislike (and these are, of course, mostly conservatives) is to dust off...
Recurrent Use of Discredited Attacks in Media Coverage
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Identity
Evidence and Motives for Media Bias Against Conservatives
"To be sure, it can be argued that the media’s notorious dislike of Nixon is in some measure personal as well as ideological. Nixon, after all, has...
Party Change and Political Alienation
"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?...
Leadership and Conviction
"The struggle for survival must not be led, on behalf of the American society, by some doubt-ridden egghead exquisitely poised between Yea and Nay....
From Stubbornness to Religiosity
"There are certain qualities inherent in the man—in a way, almost the most appealing things about him, since they are the most authentic—which make...
Stoic Response to History
"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,...
Belief as National Imperative
"The one sin for which nature exacts the supreme penalty of national extinction is a failure on the part of the members of a society to believe [in]...
Conservative in San Francisco
"San Francisco has a dreadful reputation among conservatives, and New Yorkers are forever raising the subject … I just dismiss it. I'm not in the...
Hidden Motives in Arguing
"People often have other reasons for arguing: unacknowledged or even unconscious reasons that have little or nothing to do with “prevailing” or...
Discomfort with Religious Right
"My own guess is that what makes the critics of the religious right obscurely uncomfortable about its views is not that it “tries to impose them on...
Refusing Soviet Travel
"It is a waste of time to squander a lot of heavy logic on situations that are simply not designed to respond to purely logical treatment." Source:...
Deliberate Persona
"Let me assure you, my friend: There is nothing in the slightest accidental about the image I project. It is precisely the image I want to...