* “Twenty-four-hour news networks are built for one thing, and that’s 9/11. … So in the absence of urgency, they have to create it. You create urgency through conflict.”–Political satirist Jon Stewart.
* “The chief driver of the post-election contention of the past several weeks is the petulant refusal of one man to accept the verdict of the American people.” That’s from an editorial in the National Review, one that NR founder William F. Buckley Jr. would agree with.
* “Fox News is now a hive of villainy in Trump’s eyes for not reading from the approved script.”–Fox contributor Jonah Goldberg.
* “I am sorry but we never comment on ‘The Crown.’”–Donald McCabe, Queen Elizabeth’s communications secretary.