“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."” ThinkingFacesGuyGrowsCasesNewsClaimsDemocraticClintonDemocratDebateTerroristInsanePresidentialCandidatesPairsRoughHostFoxesProfileBiasedFox NewsPresidential CandidateBritsMachismoHumeNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMindIdeasDoneShowsCultureSidesViewsPartyApproachNewsArgumentExtremesDebateBest WaySettlingAssumptionOppositionUrgesCriticizeBoth SidesEssaysDisputesPitsFrame Of MindSpokespeople Author:Deborah Tannen
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.” BigsLastsNightGuyTurnsRepublicanNewsSmartDebateTexasGovernorsLast NightBig News Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.” PeopleWantIdeasSometimesEasierNewsDebateDumbI've LearnedFoxesBlondeFox NewsDumb Blonde Author:Gretchen Carlson
“We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsJobsOpinionEnvironmentNewsDeserveDecidedElectionClintonDemocratAccessDebateJournalistCandidatesCyclesFoxesGreat JobFox NewsBoycott Author:Sean Hannity
“Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.” ShouldShowsMightRunningNamesPresidentWillingMarriedNewsDressesDemocraticDemocratCurrentsDebateCandidatesFrighteningFoxesHostileHusseinFox NewsForumsMachoNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.” MeanDoeImportantMatterHelpingNextSportsDecisionNumbersRepublicanNewsElectionDemocratDebateObsessedCyclesPolls Author:Barack Obama
“The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.” MomentsGamesChanceNewsShotsDebateCyclesSenatorsMomentumBest Shot Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.” IfsShouldFactsStoriesStarsPresidentTvsNewsAgreeRadioDebateOld News Author:Joss Whedon
“A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.” PeopleTryingReasonAbleOrderAttentionNewsDebateDialogueReason WhyContributionCyclesTrashBlogsSuccessors Author:George W. Bush
“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.” LongCountryWhiteMediaTrumpCreatingNewsLong TimeHotDebateCyclesPhenomenonJuneDominatingCaptivatingAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Megyn Kelly
“If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.” PeopleIfsWayYearsHas BeensCountryStatesMightPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesNewsYears AgoOrganizationImpactDebateMainstreamSkepticalVigilantForeign CountriesPolitical Debates Author:Barack Obama
“People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.” PeopleWayWantDifferentStoriesGivenHappenedNewsDebateDifferent WaysOutletsAvenuesNews Stories Author:Jim Lehrer
“The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.” GovernmentCarePresidentMillionsNewsDebateHealth CareControlledRomneyObamacare Author:Paul Ryan