Howard Fineman Quotes

• By Rice’s own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

  Howard Fineman

• When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

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• Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

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• It’s hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

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• If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

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• I know that from the days of Watergate… the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

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• Asked at the hearing why she hadn’t pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn’t know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn’t her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

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• As Walter Cronkite would say, that’s the way it is.

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• A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

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• A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

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Birth:	1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Howard David Fineman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an American journalist who is global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. He was Newsweek's Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Editor and Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. He began his journalism career at The Louisville Courier-Journal. Fineman's work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. He earned a B.A. degree from Colgate University. He earned an M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from the University of Louisville School of Law. He has interviewed business leaders such as Bill Gates, Steve Case, and Steve Ballmer.

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