THE LINDA ELLERBEE AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED REPORTING
The Best Notable Quotables of 1992
Rodney King 100 Meter Dash While Carrying a VCR Award* (for rationalizing the LA riots)
“It’s
not a big surprise that the jury in suburban Simi Valley sided with the
white policemen. Just as it’s no surprise that the blacks in downtown
Los Angeles rioted and people died.... Politicians have fanned these
flames with code words about ‘welfare queens,’ ‘equal opportunity,’ and
‘quotas.’ Language designed to turn whites against blacks. With
two-party politics that favored the rich and hurt everyone else.”
– NBC commentator John Chancellor, April 30 Nightly News.
Runners-up:
“We
hold accountable Republicans who have savaged our urban schools, our
housing, our health care, our social services. We hold accountable
Democrats who have collaborated in this butchery....We hold accountable
those who waste our billions on a military with no enemy to fight.”
–
Osborn Elliott, Newsweek Editor-in-Chief from 1961-76, in his speech as
co-chairman of the “Save Our Cities” rally, May 16.
A Looting Binge Born of Necessity, Opportunity
– Washington Post front page, May 10
“We
should avoid focusing exclusively on the rage and inappropriate
behavior of oppressed and frustrated people who started these riots.”
–
Hugh Downs on ABC’s 20/20, May 1.
“Increasingly, people are
saying that all of the violence had very little to do with Rodney King.
Instead, it was the desperate call of a community fighting for change.”
–
ABC reporter Tom Foreman, May 3 World News Sunday.
* inspired by P.J. O'Rourke
Damn Those Conservatives Award
“On
the road I travel to the mall in Wheaton, Md., two white men severely
beat two black women Tuesday. One was doused with lighter fluid, and her
attacker tried to set her afire. Both men cursed the women for being
black. I couldn’t help but shudder: That could have been me. This
heinous act happened only hours after Pat Buchanan voters gave him 30
percent of the vote in the Maryland GOP presidential primary.”
– USA Today columnist and former “Inquiry” page Editor Barbara Reynolds, March 6.
Runners-up:
“[Bush] is about to make matters worse by
hauling out Ronald Reagan at the Republican convention. Reagan has
become a symbol of what went wrong in the ‘80s. It’s like bringing the
Music Man back to River City, a big mistake.”
– Newsweek reporter
Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, August 1.
Anchor Lisa
McRee: “What’s the difference between your message and the message of
David Duke?....In terms of fairness, you’ve said things that have
angered Jews, that have angered gays, that have angered women, that have
angered minorities. In fact, just the other day, you said that there
are certain groups that assimilate more easily into what is basically an
American society which is of European derivation. As a woman, if I was a
minority, why shouldn’t I be scared of you?”
Buchanan: “....No
nation of God’s Earth has done more to fight discrimination, or has made
greater progress in doing so, than the United States of America.”
McRee: “But you want to turn that around!”
– Exchange on ABC’s World News Now, February 26.
“For
three decades, it was an aggressive guardian of individual liberties.
But the Supreme Court's new conservative majority is demolishing that
legacy, beating an ideological retreat from its activist role in
deciding critical social issues.”
– From Newsweek's table of contents,
July 6 issue.
Festival of Hate Award (for Republican Convention Coverage)
“The
whole week was double-ply, wall-to-wall ugly...the Republican Party
reached an unimaginably slouchy, and brazen, and constant, level of
mendacity last week...[Bush] is in campaign mode now, which means
mendacity doesn’t matter, aggression is all and wall-to-wall ugly is the
order of battle for the duration.”
– Senior Editor Joe Klein on the Republican convention, August 31 Newsweek.
Runners-up:
“The
only excited, demonstrative delegates any of us could find were the ones
from the religious right, Pat Robertson’s God and Country rally. They
remind me of those Goldwater delegates of 28 years ago, far more
interested in imposing ideological purity on this party than they are on
winning the election. They were happy today. They got the platform they
want. No room for a pregnant woman to make any decision at all, even if
she was raped. It’s a platform tough on welfare, tough on taxes and
guns and gays and pornography, tough even on public radio and public
television. They cheered Dan Quayle this afternoon and they will cheer
Pat Buchanan and Ronald Reagan tonight, but will they help elect George
Bush? It’s almost as if they haven’t thought of that, Dan.”
– Charles
Kuralt during August 17 CBS Republican convention coverage.
“Very
frankly, I am very puzzled by one paragraph, one sentence in the Vice
President’s speech on page six. In a very petulant voice, and listen to
the words: he said, ‘To Governor Clinton I say this: America is the
greatest nation in the world and that’s one thing you’re not going to
change.’ Implying that Clinton is some kind of guerrilla, saboteur, or
what have you. That’s my reaction to that line Ken Bode, I don’t know
about you. It implies something that, it seems that he’s saying you’re
not as American as I am, your blood is not as red as mine.”
– CNN’s
Bernard Shaw after Vice President Quayle’s speech, August 20.
“Bush,
the exponent of a ‘kinder, gentler’ approach to government at the 1988
convention, was presented with a 1992 platform loaded with puritanical,
punitive language that not only forbade abortions but attacked public
television, gun control, homosexual rights, birth control clinics and
the distribution of clean needles for drug users.”
– Boston Globe
reporter Curtis Wilkie, August 18 news story.
Clinton Camelot Award
“While
George Bush – all whiteness – talks about ‘family values,’ the Clintons
demonstrate them by confessing to adultery.”
– Former Washington Post reporter Sidney Blumenthal in The New Republic, Feb. 17.
Runners-up:
“I
must say I was struck by the expanse of their chests. They may have to
put out their stats.”
– Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on Clinton and
Gore, CNN’s Inside Politics, July 10.
“It would have been
outrageous if he [Clinton] had been done in by the draft thing because
that was a bum rap. The word ‘draft dodging’ does not belong in any
sentence with Bill Clinton’s name in it.”
– Time Editor-at-Large (and
Clinton friend) Strobe Talbott, March 7 Inside Washington.
“When
they appear with their wives, Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore, they look
like two suburban couples, perhaps old college friends, out on the town
for a good time. And whether they are playing miniature golf with their
wives, tossing a football around or gleefully backslapping each other
at campaign rallies, the images and the message are always the same:
Youth, vigor, energy. And change.”
– Washington Post reporter Edward
Walsh, July 23.
The I Am Woman Award (for Hillary Rodham Hero Worshipping)
“When
you hear yourself held up, as you were at the Republican convention,
some people have used the word ‘demonized,’ does it make you hurt or
make you mad?....What was the worst thing you’ve heard said about
you?....Alright, what was the grossest distortion of your record?”
– Jane Pauley’s questions to Hillary Clinton, September 8 Dateline NBC.
Runners-up:
“You
might think Hillary Clinton was running for President. Granted, she is a
remarkable woman. The first student commencement speaker at Wellesley,
part of the first large wave of women to go to law school, a prominent
partner in a major law firm, rated one of the top 100 lawyers in the
country – there is no doubt that she is her husband’s professional and
intellectual equal. But is this reason to turn her into ‘Willary Horton’
for the ‘92 campaign, making her an emblem of all that is wrong with
family values, working mothers, and modern women in general?”
–
Beginning of Time cover story by Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Margaret
Carlson, September 14 issue.
“Do you think the American people
are not ready for someone who is as accomplished and career-oriented as
Hillary Clinton?”
– Today co-host Katie Couric interviewing Hillary
Clinton, August 24.
The Henry Luce Would Roll Over in His Grave Award
“During
the darkest days of the tax battle, did you have the urge to tell the
state residents ‘Oh, grow up?’”
– Time reporter David Ellis interviewing Connecticut’s tax-hiking Governor Lowell Weicker, April 13 issue.
Runners-up:
“Put an international tax on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases....Find a way to put the brakes on the world’s spiraling population, which will otherwise double by the year 2050....Give the United Nations broad powers to create an environmental police force for the planet.”
– Time list of “What They Should Do But
Won’t” at the United Nations “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, June 1.
“Increase
taxes on gasoline and other fuels. This would help finance cuts in
other taxes – each penny-per-gallon increase in the gas tax would
generate $1 billion in new revenues – and would also encourage energy
conservation, cut down pollution and traffic congestion, and reduce the
U.S. trade deficit. A good start would be an increase of 25 cents per
gal. – less than the amount by which prices rose during the Gulf War –
with further increases of five cents a year.”
– Time suggestion for a
tax package, Dec 9, 1991.
Willie Horton Award (for Sophisticated Political Analysis)
“The
racial dimension flows naturally into the political, where the uglier
side of Quayle’s mission begins to become apparent. One of Quayle’s
amazing but unlikable feats last week was metaphorically to transform
old Willie Horton into a beautiful blond fortyish WASP has-it-all
knockout.”
– Time Senior Writer Lance Morrow on the Murphy Brown controversy, June 1.
Runners-up:
“The Republicans, for 25
years, have seldom avoided the temptation to play the race card
politically in this country. It goes back to the ‘60s, when Richard
Nixon ran as a law-and-order President. In the ‘70s, Ronald Reagan, and
the late ‘70s, he ran for President in 1980 talking about welfare
queens, associating the Great Society programs with minorities, and with
waste, and with crime in the streets. There has been a consistent
impulse, Willie Horton was just a continuation of that, to use this
issue to divide people.”
– U.S. News & World Report Senior Writer
Steven Roberts on Washington Week in Review, May 8.
“Senator, you
told Tim that you thought the White House suggestion that the Great
Society programs were to blame for what happened in Los Angeles was
ludicrous. Was it also a racial code word – a code word to appeal to
racial fears? Is it the Willie Horton of the 1992 campaign?”
– NBC
reporter Andrea Mitchell interviewing Sen. Bill Bradley on Meet the
Press, May 10.
“It would help, too, if the man who sanctioned the
infamous Willie Horton ad during his 1988 run for the White House would
admit his complicity in developing the images and code words that
encourage whites to demonize blacks.”
– Time special correspondent
Michael Kramer, May 11 issue.
“Many are afraid the L.A. riots are
going to be the Willie Horton of this campaign. Are you afraid they’re
going to have a very divisive effect? Does that concern you or are you
playing that up?”
– Today co-host Katie Couric interviewing Pat
Buchanan, May 6.
Award for the Silliest Analysis
“NATURE
HAS A CURE FOR EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THE SPREAD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
Until recently, cultural genocide has been a quietly accepted practice.
But times change and so does TIME.”
– Time advertisement in the April 27 Sports Illustrated promoting their “Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge” issue.
Runners-up:
“The [House] bank had no written standards; hopeless accounting procedures made it impossible to determine when overdrafts occurred except by painstaking check-by-check reconstruction of individual accounts....None of this was anyone’s fault.”
– Washington Post reporter Guy Gugliotta,
April 17.
“After watching the first week of his new syndicated
series, one must logically conclude that Limbaugh is the lead component
of an insidious left-wing conspiracy to make conservatives look like
clowns....Rushie tried to disguise his true liberal feelings by
constantly referring to Bill Clinton as ‘Slick Willie.’ Funny, wouldn’t
you say, that Mr. Conservative neglected to mention that ‘Willie’ was
also the nickname of William Shakespeare, whose plays were performed in
the Globe Theatre by men who played the female roles. Thus, it’s obvious
that despite being a right-winger, Limbaugh endorses TRANSVESTITES!”
–
Los Angeles Times TV critic Howard Rosenberg, September 21.
“There
is an understandable reluctance on the part of many women to venture
into a building already occupied by Jesse Helms or Bob Dornan, a
building that was designed, for all we know, without a single ladies’
room in the floor plan. Plus there has been the chilling effect of male
politicos like former Republican Party chairman Clayton Yeutter, who
reportedly addressed a high-powered donor as ‘little lady’ and inquired
as to whom she ‘belonged to’ – thus sending a generation of Republican
women out to join militantly separatist rural communes.”
– Time essayist
Barbara Ehrenreich, June 22.
“Texas...another of the so-called
big enchiladas, or if not an enchilada, at least a huge taco.”
– Dan
Rather during CBS News election night coverage.
Ross Perot Award(for Sensitivity to Criticism)
“My
reaction to that button [‘Rather Biased’] and others, in part, is a
button I bought yesterday that says ‘Yeah, I’m In The Media, Screw
You!’....I do understand why a lot of people are upset with us, why we
rank somewhere between terrorists and bank robbers on the approval
scale. We do criticize. That’s part of our role. Our role is not just to
parrot what people say, it’s to make people think. I think that
sometimes I want to say to the electorate ‘Grow up!’”
– Newsweek reporter Ginny Carroll on C-SPAN’s Journalists’ Roundtable, August 21.
Runners-up:
“I
think there are reporters around Clinton who are baby boomers who are
drawn to him. I think there are a lot of reporters in Washington who
just wish for a new story. But I watch probably as many talk shows, and
as many interview shows, what George Bush calls the professional talking
heads on Sundays, as anybody else. I actually think the bias, in the
overall system, is from the center to the right.”
– PBS omnipresence
Bill Moyers on CNN’s Larry King Live, November 2.
“I don’t think
there is [a bias] at all. I think anyone who accuses the press of bias
is acting in desperation, I think. I think the press has been much more
aggressive and fair, in being, in going after both sides, and looking,
than ever before.”
– New York Times reporter Richard Berke on CNN’s
Larry King Live, October 16.
“I am shocked when people say that
[the media were pro-Clinton], I really am. I mean, people forget January
and February, when the media was on Clinton’s case with Gennifer
Flowers, all the draft stuff. I’m amazed at the public’s selective
memory.”
– ABC anchor Carole Simpson at Women of Washington forum shown
by C-SPAN, November 10.
The Real Reagan Legacy Award
“You
place responsibility for the death of your daughter squarely at the
feet of the Reagan Administration. Do you believe they’re responsible
for that?”
– NBC reporter Maria Shriver interviewing AIDS sufferer Elizabeth Glaser, July 14 Democratic convention coverage.
Runners-up:
“The
boom years following World War II saw the U.S. economy take off, giving
rise to the growth of the great American middle class. The rising
standard of living meant homes, cars, TVs, college for the kids – all in
all, a piece of the American dream. But in the Reagan years, economic
erosion set in, so much so that the middle class now finds itself in
ever-deepening trouble.”
– Bryant Gumbel on Today, January 22.
“[Reagan’s]
good-natured pre- and post-surgical quips so endeared him to the nation
that practically nothing, including the deaths of 241 U.S. Marines in a
Beirut barracks, stuck to the Reagan presidency. As a result, the
nation smiled benignly when....He burdened the working poor and middle
class by raising Social Security taxes while calling for cuts in the
capital gains tax. Such policies widened the gap between rich and poor
and contributed to the psychological chasm between haves and have-nots.
In this atmosphere, Wall Street stock manipulator Michael Milken earned
$550 million in 1987, and ghetto teens unable to find jobs joined gangs
instead.”
– Houston Chronicle reporter Steven Reed, August 16 news
story.
“The amazing thing is most people seem content to believe
that almost everybody had a good time in the ‘80s, a real shot at the
dream. But the fact is, they didn’t. Did we wear blinders? Did we think
the ‘80s just left behind the homeless? The fact is that almost nine in
ten Americans actually saw their lifestyle decline.”
– NBC reporter
Keith Morrison, February 7 Nightly News.
“We are seeing a public
recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of
citizenship. It comes because we don’t trust anyone. It is part of the
cafard the ‘80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan
scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by
Reaganomics that went on for years with hardly a peep from Congress –
events whose numbers were so huge as to be beyond the comprehension of
most people.”
– Time art critic Robert Hughes in his cover essay “The
Fraying of America,” February 3.
James Carville Award (for Mean & Nasty Campaign Reporting)
“Ever
since the Clarence Thomas hearings last fall, the Republican Party has
been struggling to overcome the perception that its regard for women is
only a notch or two higher than that of the Navy Tailhook Association.”
– Time reporter Michael Duffy, August 24 issue.
Runners-up:
“Al
Gore won it for taking the high road with his cool command of the
facts, and Jim Stockdale gets the runner-up trophy for the best
one-liners. Dan Quayle lost for the hate-mongering that turned off much
of the nation at his party’s convention in Houston. It wasn’t that he
made any gaffes. He looked poised and spoke with great energy. But he
played dirty while the other two candidates played clean.”
– Boston
Globe columnist and former Washington bureau reporter Susan Trausch,
October 14.
“Fred [Barnes], you’ve said time and again that
character is an important issue in the campaign. Clearly, that
red-baiting junk didn’t work for the President last night. What’s he
going to try next?”
– CBS This Morning co-host Harry Smith, October 12.
“What
are your expectations? How nasty do you expect George Bush to try to
be?”
– Bryant Gumbel to John Chancellor on NBC’s Today, October 9.
“Are
Democrats willing, even anxious, to be as nasty as the President is
going to be?”
– Bryant Gumbel to Clinton consultant Bob Squier, August
10 Today.
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
A Gulag Breeds Rage, Yes, but Also Serenity
– New York Times story on last Soviet poitical prisoners being released, February 12
Runners-up:
Connie Chung: “In formerly communist Bulgaria, the cost of freedom has been virtual economic disaster. Peter Van Sant reports.”
Van
Sant: “Thousands of socialists rally in Sofia, Bulgaria. It may look
like a rally from communism’s glory years, but it’s not. It’s an
expression of frustration, a longing for the bad old days when liberty
was scarce but at least everybody had a job.”
– CBS Evening News,
December 29, 1991.
“In the old Soviet Union, you never saw faces
like these. The poor, the homeless, and the desperation of the Russian
winter. Their numbers are growing. Tonight – Is this what democracy
does? A look at the Russia you haven’t seen before....The people of
Russia are learning this winter that the price of freedom can be
painfully high.”
– Barbara Walters opening Nightline, January 14.
“The
economic and political turmoil that has swept the former Communist East
Bloc has hit women the hardest. There’s been a strong backlash against
the idea of women’s equality... Under the communists, women in the
workplace were glorified. And if they needed time off to give birth and
raise families, they got it at full pay.”
– ABC reporter Jerry King,
April 6 World News Tonight.
Happy Talk Award (for the Silliest Interview)
“You
talked, Anita, about some of the very supportive letters you’ve gotten,
and some of the letters that have touched you. Have you received any
hate mail?....They find you offensive, most of all, because you are a
black woman?....Twenty years from now, fifty years from now, when people
look back at these hearings, how do you want them to think of you?”
– Katie Couric’s questions to Anita Hill, October 7 Today.
Runners-up:
“Making
headlines this morning: Bill Clinton comes up with a plan for the
economy – tax the rich, cut the deficit, and help just about everyone.”
–
CBS This Morning co-host Paula Zahn, June 22.
“Since, as you
say, you’re just musing here – if you were President of the United
States, what would you do about Los Angeles, about these problems? Be
honest.”
– Anchor Garrick Utley interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev, May 16
NBC Nightly News.
“When you grow up, and it’s a choice between a
clean river and a better car or a better Walkman or something like that,
which are you going to choose?”
– CNN reporter Richard Blystone
interviewing a Norwegian child, June 8 World News.
“What are
people responding to when they cheer you on this trip?”
– Bryant
Gumbel’s first question to Bill Clinton, July 22 Today.
Media Hero Award
“I’m
nominating you for President of the United States and I’m going to quit
my job and go to work for you.”
– Sam Donaldson to Mario Cuomo on the floor of the Democratic convention, quoted by the New York Daily News, July 13.
Runners-up:
“By American presidential standards,
Mikhail Gorbachev accomplished enough in his seven-year term to qualify
for a bust on Mount Rushmore.”
– NBC reporter Jim Maceda, December 25,
1991 Nightly News.
“When Steinem, now 57, pours a second cup of
coffee and writes like she talks, there is no one more fascinating. The
only comparable figure is Ralph Nader.”
– Time Deputy Washington Bureau
Chief Margaret Carlson on Gloria Steinem’s new book, Revolution from
Within, January 20.
“It’s worth dying prematurely so you can hear
somebody else do your eulogy if that somebody is Mario Cuomo.”
– Bill
Moyers during CNN Democratic convention coverage, July 14.
Michael
Kramer, Time: “He’s [Cuomo] incredibly smart. He’s the most interesting
person to talk to that I’ve ever met in politics.”
Gail Collins, Newsday: “He is such a fascinating guy. He is everything, the most fascinating politician I’ve ever met.”
Joe
Klein, New York magazine: “He’s one of the most fascinating people I’ve
met, period. I mean, in life, period. He’s more fun to talk to than
almost anybody.”
– Reporters on Mario Cuomo, January 9.
Which Way Is It?
White-Black Disparity in Income Narrowed in 80's, Census Shows
– New York Times, July 24
Income equality gap widens for minorities
– USA Today, same day
Runner-up:
167,000 Jobs Lost In U.S. Last Month
Manufacturers, Retailers Hard Hit
– Washington Post, September 5
83,000 jobs lost in August
– Boston Globe, same day
Quote of the Year
“Greenpeace,
the public interest organization, believes that the Iraqi death toll,
civilian and military, before and after the war, may be as high as
198,000. Allied military dead are counted in the low hundreds. The
disparity is huge and somewhat embarrassing. And that’s commentary for
this evening, Tom.”
– NBC commentator John Chancellor, March 12 Nightly News.
Runners-up:
“Al Gore leaned against his orthopedic back
pillow, drank bottled water and reflected on the human spirit and his
newfound sense of self. How is it that the wooden-tongued policy wonk of
1988 has emerged as a spokesman for the inner child, an icon of the new
manhood?...But when Vice President Dan Quayle derides Gore’s notions as
‘pretty bizarre stuff,’ he may not be aware that millions of people
attend support groups every week in the U.S.”
– Time Chicago reporter
Elizabeth Taylor, October 12 issue.
“[Columbus] sailed just as
Jews and Muslims were being expelled from Spain, the persecution of
those peoples and the riches robbed from them paying for his small
armada of ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, to set sail
for new plunder. For Native Americans, the people who hardly felt
discovered, Columbus’ landing commenced a Holocaust. There’s really no
other word for the death delivered by settlers, as they scattered,
enslaved, and obliterated Indian nations on their own sacred lands.”
–
NBC weekend Today co-host Scott Simon, October 11.
“But for the
simple folk of Uzbekistan, people like Kurban Manizayov, these are
mind-wrenching times. Their simple wants were nicely cared for by the
communists. But now they've been thrust into the hurly-burly world of
market capitalism, and nobody even bothered to ask if it was all right.”
– CNN Moscow reporter Steve Hurst, August 31 World News.
– Brant Clifton, Nicholas Damask, Andy Gabron, Steve Kaminski, Marian Kelley, Tim Lamer; 1992 Media Analysts
– Jennifer Hardeback, Circulation Manager
1992 Award Judges
Brent Baker, Editor of MediaWatch & Notable Quotables
Tom Bethell, Washington Editor of The American Spectator
L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman, the Media Research Center
David Brudnoy, talk show host, WBZ Radio in Boston
Priscilla Buckley, Senior Editor of National Review
Mona Charen, syndicated comunist; CNN Capital Gang panelist
Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune columnist
John Corry, former New York Times television critic; author
Sandy Crawford, Editor of TV, etc.
Mark Davis, talk show host, WWRC Radio, Washington, DC
Midge Decter, Fellow, Institute on Religion and Public Life
Jim Eason, talk show host, KGO in San Francisco
Terry Eastland, Resident Scholar, Ethics and Public Policy Center, American Spectator “Presswatch” columnist
Don Feder, Boston Herald and syndicated columnist
Samuel Francis, Washington Times columnist
Tim Graham, Editor of Notable Quotables
Daniel Griswold, Editorial Page Editor, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Tom Holt, Assistant Editor, editorial page, Richmond Times Dispatch
Les Jameson, talk show host, WLAC in Nashville
Cliff Kincaid, media analyst, columnist
G. Gordon Liddy, syndicated radio talk show host
Tony Macrini, talk show host, WNIS in Norfolk
Marlin Maddoux, talk show host, USA Radio Network
Mike McConnell, talk show host, WLW Radio in Cincinnati
Patrick McGuigan, Chief editorial writer, Daily Oklahoman
Mike McMurray, talk show host, WCKY Radio in Cincinnati
William Murchison, Dallas Morning News & syndicated columnist
Dr. Marvin Olasky, Associate Professor of Journalism, U. of Texas
Burton Yale Pines, Fellow, MRC Institute for Free Enterprise & the Media
Joseph Perkins, San Diego Union-Tribune and syndicated columnist
Mike Pintek, talk show host, KDKA in Pittsburgh
Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, Managing Editor, American Spectator
Mike Rosen, talk show host, KOA; columnist, Denver Post
William Rusher, Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
Marc Ryan, editorial writer, Waterbury Republican-American
Ted J. Smith III, Associate professor of Mass Communication at Virginia Commonwealth U.
Philip Terzian, Associate Editor & columnist, Providence Journal
Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Editor of The American Spectator
Dick Williams, Atlanta Journal columnist
Thomas Winter, Editor of Human Events