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Robert Scheer Quotes
All they are proving is their ability to manipulate, to think superficially, and to exploit national security issues rather than deal with them. - Robert Scheer Quotes
And new people come in, and it doesnt go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They cant silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. - Robert Scheer Quotes
And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. Hes an accountant from Chicago, doesnt know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. - Robert Scheer Quotes
Even with the best of intentions, even when theyre very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesnt seem to matter. - Robert Scheer Quotes
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. - Robert Scheer Quotes
For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didnt. He had a great interest in policy. - Robert Scheer Quotes
I have broken a lot of stories. - Robert Scheer Quotes
I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didnt look at his watch, and he didnt allow his campaign aides to cut it off. - Robert Scheer Quotes
I teach at USC, and its obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they dont cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. - Robert Scheer Quotes
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. - Robert Scheer Quotes
I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. - Robert Scheer Quotes
Ive been with the paper for almost 30 years. - Robert Scheer Quotes
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. - Robert Scheer Quotes
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. - Robert Scheer Quotes
So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, hes a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldnt stand a word that I wrote. - Robert Scheer Quotes
Sometimes Bill OReilly would sometimes go after me every day, and this went on for the last couple of years, and Im still standing. - Robert Scheer Quotes
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - its just been intensified. - Robert Scheer Quotes
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. - Robert Scheer Quotes
The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform. - Robert Scheer Quotes
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. - Robert Scheer Quotes
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative. - Robert Scheer Quotes
They know I have a strong - not only that I have a strong relation to readers, but so did Ramirez, the cartoonist. You know, its just gibberish. - Robert Scheer Quotes
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they dont have room for one column once week that consistently got it right. - Robert Scheer Quotes
We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. Its just garbage. Its insulting to the readers. - Robert Scheer Quotes
Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill OReilly and Rush Limbaugh. - Robert Scheer Quotes
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. - Robert Scheer Quotes
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. - Robert Scheer Quotes
What they are interested in at the L.A. Times is profits, and then when its convenient to them, they wave the flag of free press. - Robert Scheer Quotes
When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him. - Robert Scheer Quotes
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