Laura Bush Quotes

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

The media do strange things.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

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.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

The Year of the Talking Head

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.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

The people may not be like that, but I think the media had a very dirty role in spoiling relations between us and India.

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.

We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. As a result, Obama is to the right of Richard Nixon on most issues. And there is we believe, certainly some space to exploit there. And we, VICE, aim to exploit it.