Cokie Roberts Quotes

The media doesn't understand conservatives at all.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?

Depending on what state you live in, you may only have right-wing talk radio and FOX or CBN with MSNBC three hundred channels down the dial.

The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

These right wing talk radio show hosts can’t even deliver a pizza, much less a Presidential nomination.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.

I'm not insulting Trump supporters; I'm calling the people that CNN puts on television terrible representatives of the views of conservatives.

The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no secret Hannity is conservative, and O'Reilly certainly is not a liberal. Beck goes well beyond conservatism to some very strange places.

Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.