Demagogy Quote by George Packer
![“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.” quote by George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aed/george-packer-2917_2012-presidential-el_o-nce-demagogy-and-falsehoods-become-rou_1510589.jpg)
““[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.””
““[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.””
![“They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that…” quote by Roger Ailes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/846/roger-ailes-2123_answers_they-candidates-say-i-don-t-want-to-say_1450924.jpg)
![“We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34a/theodore-roosevelt-218_balance_we-must-hold-the-just-balance-and-set-ou_1796965.jpg)
![“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d8/christopher-hitchens-117_bullying_it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can_1912195.jpg)
