Frank Rich Quotes

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• There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency.…
• What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.
• The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a…
• After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what…
• I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to…
• It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to…
• When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
• There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How…
• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself,…
• Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
• Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
• The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.
• One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
• Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a…
• For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as…
• Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
• History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
• One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it…
• In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted…

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