Politically, Obamas amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. – Eric Alterman
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. – Eric Alterman
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets – without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain – who average nearly $24 million a year in income – next year. – Eric Alterman
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. – Eric Alterman
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler