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- noun In newspaper and magazine publishing, a brief excerpt drawn from an article and used
out of context .
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Examples
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A fond (and familiar?) pull-quote for the flavor of it:
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A pull-quote from a report on the re-opening of the Casino de Paris in Jerusalem attributed it to Tom Segev, Israeli historian.
For the record 2011
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The only time any media pays attention to them is when they need a pull-quote to decorate a shitty story.
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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Same with vocal 2A supporters, we can make the best arguments ever and get ignored 'the minute some nimrod comes out with a stupid line in public it becomes a pull-quote speaking for all gun owners in Time or LA Times, Washington Post, NYT etc..
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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For me, the article was immortalized by the following pull-quote from an anonymous Jordanian official, which crystallized the cynicism of geopolitics and the way nation-states function: "Look, nobody here likes Saddam, but people will not be happy when they see Iraqi babies dying on TV."
Robert Koehler: Believe in Violence and Be Saved Robert Koehler 2010
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