Charles Gibson: “A lot of Democrats say a dream ticket would be if John Kerry would reach across the aisle, take you as a vice presidential candidate. Are you going to say no? No how, no way, won’t do it?”
Senator John McCain: “Charlie, it’s impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk....”
Gibson: “But let me, let me imagine it…
“Well, however brave a stand campaign finance reform may be, members of your own party have rejected it. What’s the matter with them? Why don’t they get it?”
— ABC's Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer to Senator John McCain, September 27, 1999.
“Something is going on. I mean I wrote about McCain, as you know, in the December issue of Vanity Fair and he has this remarkable appeal. He’s a down the line conservative. He’s voted for every item in the Contract for America and yet he has this appeal to centrists and even some liberal Democrats despite a rather reactionary record in many ways. He is evolving.”— Carl Bernstein on CNBC’s Rivera…
“You could argue that no candidate since Bobby Kennedy in 1968, a long time ago, has so opened himself up to the press corps and so won over the press corps. The Bobby Kennedy press corps, and Jack [Germond] was on the plane, was pretty enthusiastic about Bobby Kennedy by the end of it. The difference of course was that Bobby Kennedy was pretty much always off the record on the airplane. You didn…
“You guys have got to stop putting Kellyanne [Conway] on your shows. All she does is lie. If you don’t give her a platform, she has nowhere to lie. It’s like that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get Kellyanne under that tree? I’m not suggesting she gets hurt. Just stuck. Stuck under a tree.”...
“There’s also, of course, Ivanka. She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but…
Host Jake Tapper: “I want to bring in Cameron Kasky, he’s a junior, and he has a question for Senator Rubio. Cameron?”Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Cameron Kasky: “I’m sorry, I know I’m not supposed to do this, but I’m not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz....I wished I could have…
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On the August 1, 1999 edition of 60 Minutes, Stahl introduced the segment:
“When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot their way into Columbine High School in Colorado a few months ago, one of the guns in their arsenal was a powerful pistol called a TEC-9. That’s one of the guns supposedly outlawed by the assault-weapons ban, passed by Congress and signed by…
The January 11, 2018 edition of FNC's Your World with Neil Cavuto, covered Rep. Nancy Pelosi's mocking Walmart workers getting a $1000 bonus (via the GOP tax cut) as "crumbs."
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AM Joy
February 4, 2018
HOST JOY REID: This week House Speaker Paul Ryan, attempted one heck of a pivot, spinning a question about the Nunes memo into a complaint about Democrats’ lack of appreciation for his new tax bill, the tax bill that as Ryan bragged yesterday on Twitter is working so well that, quote, “A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was…