ED SCHULTZ (26 July 2013): Republican promises and lies were at the core of the destruction of
Detroit. It wasn’t any policies that were put forward by Democrats. Democrats
cared about workers. Democrats wanted to make sure that their workers in the
city number one had heath care number two had a pension and number three had
good working conditions and were doing their job. Ah the pension fund…
BILL O'REILLY (24 July 2013) (after noting that a NYTimes piece about Fox News viewers skewing old didn't mention that the Factor draws a large number of young viewers): I don't think anybody even cares about the New York Times anymore. Do you? GERALDO RIVERA: Well, I read it. I think it's the best newspaper out there. BILL O'REILLY: Yeah? Even though they don't tell you the truth? GERALDO RIVERA…
STEPHANIE MILLER (23 JULY 2013): Oh this just in, ah apparently George Zimmerman saved Baby Jessica from the wellCHRIS LAVOIE: Oh goodSTEPHANIE MILLER: I did not realize that either. I forgot that storyJIM WARD: Good for him well well well then he spun back in time and unexploded the Hindenburg.STEPHANIE MILLER: Wow he is awesomeJIM WARD: What a guy! That’s just the kind of guy he is, he’s just…
Bill PRESS (23 July 2013): Bottom line, he....PETER OGBURN: B.S. B.S.Bill PRESS: He’s just a nice guy.IGOR VOLSKY: Well, he’s been protecting his neighborhood for years. So this is just a an extension. Bill PRESS: Well I would hope that if you come across a car accident that anybody, even a murderer would get out and help them out, right? Not get out and kick them in the teeth or something. Ah…
TAVIS SMILEY (21 July 2013): What’s your sense of how the media and not just Fox News, but beyond that your read as you’ve been watching this, how the media handled this case?CORNEL WEST: I think that it’s been decrepit though brother. You get a focus on some of the upper middle class folks or what I call the rent a Negro phenomenon on msnbc.TAVIS SMILEY: Ha ha ha ha ha!CORNEL WEST: And how this…
TAVIS SMILEY (21 July 2013): Black people now find themselves at the mercy of an African-American Attorney General to do something else. He came out this week at the NAACP this week and talked about the Stand Your Ground Law What do you make of the irony of who we have to depend on now to make a decision that I for one don’t believe is forthcoming.CORNEL WEST: Yeah I wish and pray that it were…
GERALDO RIVERA (16 July 2013): I really do believe that Al Sharpton is the pre-eminent civil-rights spokesman of, certainly of the 21st century. Now, you can call him a race hustler all you want. You can demean him and talk about Tawana Brawley and all that, but I just have watched his track [sic]. He is the most sincere man, and he is standing up for his constituency, and he's doing it with all…
THOM HARTMANN (15 July 2013): It's like in the deep South, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The slave patrol is alive and well. It was called the slave patrol until the 1860s. Then it was called the KKK. Now, apparently, it's called the neighborhood watch. THOM HARTMANN (10:50): George Zimmerman was out there on slave patrol, and he got away with it.[...] THOM HARTMANN (31:21…
REV. Al SHARPTON (15 July 2013): To get just angry and get revenge might relive some of your feelings, but doesn’t change anything. And it doesn’t stop the risk cause it will; one you kill and then you pursued to go to jail. Then they’re going to be revenge and kill two or three more of us because they know the law is imbalanced and they got better show of getting away. There’s some in this…
STEPHANIE MILLER (10 July 2013): Don’t you think this is going to make people more panicky now?CHRIS LAVOIE: Yeah. STEPHANIE MILLER: Things are even slightly awry. It’s just like there’s going to be a lot of that ding dong bing bong hello flight attendant what’s what’s happening? I’d like to speak to the captain in person. CHRIS LAVOIE: Are we coming in too slow and low?STEPHANIE MILLER: Ha what’…