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The Media Research Center is out with another edition of our bi-weekly Notable Quotables newsletter, a compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. Highlights from this issue include: Network reporters contrasting left-wing union protests in Wisconsin with recent uprisings against brutal Middle Eastern dictators, and journalists suggesting a “coordinated” Republican “assault on unions,” with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski badgering Governor Scott Walker: “How this is not an attempt to crush the unions.” In other NQ news, we think we’ve finally fixed the problems that have plagued MRC’s e-mail newsletters over the past few weeks, so if you’d like to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to Notable Quotables or any of the MRC’s other fine newsletters, click here . Now, here’s a sample of our best quotes from the past two weeks, including six video clips — for the full edition ( Web page or full-color, printer-friendly PDF ), visit www.MRC.org . A “Coordinated” “Assault” on Unions — “Have Governors Gone Too Far? ” “What began as a battle over one state budget is now being billed as a national assault on unions.” — CBS’s Cynthia Bowers on the February 18 Evening News . “Is there a coordinated Republican political agenda to this attack or this effort, this pointed effort at unions?…There are many states that have denied collective bargaining rights that also have very large budget deficits. So in some ways, it doesn’t sort of make sense, this idea that the unions really are to blame.” — Fill-in co-host Ann Curry to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on NBC’s Today , February 23. “We’ve seen the public employees say, ‘We’ll pay more for our health care and pensions, but you can’t take away our rights.’ Have the governors here gone too far?” — ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Good Morning America , February 23. Fighting Dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya — and Wisconsin “Today, we saw America’s money trouble meet a reality, a human reality, as teachers, nurses, tens of thousands of state workers took to the streets in this country protesting cuts by the governors, saying to these governors, a promise is a promise. One lawmaker looked out at the crowds gathered in the Wisconsin capital today and said it’s like Cairo moved to Madison.” — Diane Sawyer opening ABC’s World News , February 17. “This week: people power making history. A revolt in the Midwest and a revolution sweeping across the Middle East….Populist frustration is boiling over this week — as we’ve said, not just in the Middle East, but in the middle of this country as well.” — ABC’s Christiane Amanpour opening This Week , February 20. “The images from Wisconsin — with its protests, shutdown of some public services and missing Democratic senators, who fled the state to block a vote — evoked the Middle East more than the Midwest. The parallels raise the inevitable question: Is Wisconsin the Tunisia of collective bargaining rights?” — New York Times reporters Michael Cooper and Katharine Seelye, February 19.