Media Monday

Here are some of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes from or about the liberal media, courtesy of the Media Research Center:

Another Keith rant: "Al-Qaida really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than al-Qaida -- worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan."

-- MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, in an interview

in the October issue of Playboy magazine

A petition tax: "What about a lobbying tax• If you're gonna spend a certain amount of money lobbying ... you have to match that amount of money by giving it to help education or to fight AIDS?"

-- NBC's "Today" co-host Matt Lauer

Def expert: "I don't believe it was bin Laden (responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks). ... In any barbershop I am so not alone, I'm so not alone. ... Highly educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory."

-- Rapper Mos Def on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"