Frank Rich famous quotes

03-30-2025

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. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
-- Frank Rich

#Fake People #Agency #Long
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 media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.
-- Frank Rich

#Taken #Media #Editors
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
-- Frank Rich

#News #Century #Tics
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.
-- Frank Rich

#Tuesday #Politics #Lasts
Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
-- Frank Rich

#Lefties #Causes
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
-- Frank Rich

#Criminals #Hollywood #Propaganda
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, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
-- Frank Rich

#Running #Play #Imagination
Thereâ€™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 curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesnâ€™t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.
-- Frank Rich

#Hero #Gay #Rights
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
-- Frank Rich

#Thinking #Soul
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 week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
-- Frank Rich

#Facts #Kind #Politician
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 do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
-- Frank Rich

#New York #Kids #Independent
I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
-- Frank Rich

#Grew Up #Theater #Grew
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 our real problems are.
-- Frank Rich

#Real #War #Silly
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 rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.
-- Frank Rich

#New York #Peculiar #World
What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.
-- Frank Rich

#Chocolate #Groups #Four
The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.
-- Frank Rich

#House #Three #Defense

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