Administration Quote by Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

— Eric Alterman

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals…

— Eric Alterman

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans…

— Eric Alterman

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as…

— Eric Alterman

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

— Eric Alterman

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of…

— Eric Alterman

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

— Eric Alterman

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for…

— Eric Alterman

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

— Eric Alterman

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

— Eric Alterman

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

— Eric Alterman

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary…

— Eric Alterman