It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself.
I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.
From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.
It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.
I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.
You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.