AJR  Features
From AJR,   January/February 1994

The Liberal Press Strikes Again   

The best examples of liberal media puffery in 1993, as selected by the conservative Media Research Center

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The best examples of liberal media puffery in 1993, as selected by the conservative Media Research Center:

"If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk away winners... Thank you very much and tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we're pulling for her." (Dan Rather, talking with the Clintons via satellite at a CBS affiliates meeting)

"[The Clintons] exchange gifts and touch each other more in two hours than the Bushes did in four years." (Time correspondent Margaret Carlson, in Vanity Fair)

"Roger [Clinton]'s life is in some ways the story of any younger sibling clobbered by the spectacular success of the one who came before... If your brother is Christ, you have a choice: become a disciple, or become an anti-Christ, or find yourself caught somewhere between the two." (Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post)

"In the midst of redesigning America's health care system and replacing Madonna as our leading cult figure, the new First Lady has already begun working on her next project, far more metaphysical and uplifting... She is both impersonal and poignant – with much more depth, intellect and spirituality than we are used to in a politician... She has goals, but they appear to be so huge and far off – grand and noble things twinkling in the distance – that it's hard to see what she sees." (Martha Sherrill, Washington Post)

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