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1. "Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter." ~ Eric Alterman
2. "Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us." ~ Eric Alterman
3. "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
4. "Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore." ~ Eric Alterman
5. "Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising." ~ Eric Alterman
6. "Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya." ~ Eric Alterman
7. "We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality." ~ Eric Alterman
8. "But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions." ~ Eric Alterman
9. "Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality." ~ Eric Alterman
10. "I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column." ~ Eric Alterman
11. "Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined." ~ Eric Alterman
12. "Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady." ~ Eric Alterman
13. "If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not." ~ Eric Alterman
14. "Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence." ~ Eric Alterman
15. "The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue." ~ Eric Alterman
16. "While history never repeats itself, political patterns do." ~ Eric Alterman
17. "As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie." ~ Eric Alterman
18. "The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems." ~ Eric Alterman
19. "Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom." ~ Eric Alterman
20. "America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago." ~ Eric Alterman
21. "American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be." ~ Eric Alterman
22. "As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish." ~ Eric Alterman
23. "Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda." ~ Eric Alterman

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