Jeb Bush Quotes

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don't want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don't want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.

When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.

Liberals live in a cocoon, and the shelter of the cocoon is lie after lie as after lie after lie that gives them comfort. They are comfortable in these misrepresentations, distortions, and mistakes about their opponents. It's one of the ways in which they feel valid and relevant is to think that all the rest of us who disagree with them are contemptible and mean and all that, and we're not worth understanding or getting to know.

The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.

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

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

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.'

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

The people we want in our news prime-time space now are strongly opinionated people who I think, for the most part, attract audiences of like-minded people, who want to know 'what's our side thinking right now?'

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Republican pundits always believe Republicans are going to win; Democratic pundits always believe Democrats are going to win.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

Politicians are trapped in their own views.

Not only is our electorate polarized, but their sources of information are polarized. Voters choose the sources of information that tells them what they want to hear.

Liberals ... enjoy the company of other liberals, just as conservatives enjoy the company of other conservatives.

We [conservatives] are at a disadvantage in the political discussion in America. Most of the participants are of the left. The media, academia and Hollywood … are of the left. We need soft money to offset that disadvantage.