The Democrats and other liberal groups try to make it look like CPB is run by a bunch of right-wingers that will interfere with the news. We can't and we don't.


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JOHN GAY
For he as studious--of his ease.
JOHN GAY
Studious of elegance and ease.
JOHN GAY
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, as...
JOHN GAY
In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and ...
JOHN GAY
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY
Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,
JOHN GAY
Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one ano...
JOHN GAY
I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
ROXANE GAY
One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is tha...
ROXANE GAY
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to...
GAY TALESE
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca...
ROXANE GAY
What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that h...
ROXANE GAY
I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations agains...
ROXANE GAY
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they&...
ROXANE GAY
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed ...
ROXANE GAY
Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink ...
ROXANE GAY
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented op...
ROXANE GAY
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
JOHN GAY
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind ...
ROXANE GAY
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
JOHN GAY
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long ...
ROXANE GAY
There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I...
ROSS GAY
I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one ...
TYSON GAY
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be a...
ROXANE GAY
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on...
ROXANE GAY
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY
All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY
That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak) Bodes me no good.
JOHN GAY
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d...
TYSON GAY
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa...
GAY TALESE
A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and...
FRANCIS GAY
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really qui...
ROXANE GAY
I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When ...
ROXANE GAY
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the e...
ROXANE GAY
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are deg...
ROXANE GAY