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H ere are some of the Media Research Center's Notable Quotables for the worst reporting of 2007: Dynamic Duo Award for Clinton Idolizing "There was this great story in The Atlantic this month about your philanthropy, the (Clinton Global Initiative) and your other activities at the foundation. And the author says you're basically reinventing philanthropy, or trying to reinvent philanthropy. ... He writes that, 'As a result of this, history may remember Bill Clinton as the philanthropist who happened to be president.' You OK with that?" — ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House aide, to Bill Clinton, "This...

Nikita Khrushchev remarked to the New York Times on Sept. 29, 1957 that "The press is our chief ideological weapon." So it came as no surprise when North Vietnam's leader Ho Chi Minh echoed Mao Tse-tung's truism that by using the "media and elitist peace activists, an enemy of America could convince the American people" that they couldn't win a war. The trick was not to defeat the military - they knew they couldn't - but rather to use the media and activists to break the will of the American people. And the beat goes on. Pulitzer Prize winning liberal...