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"From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media"

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"Unrelenting attack" is the kind of phrasing that turns a messy, pluralistic media ecosystem into a single hostile army. Tammy Bruce isn’t arguing about coverage; she’s staging a siege. The line’s power comes from its elasticity: "from the subtle to the extreme" preemptively sweeps in everything from a late-night monologue to an investigative report, from a casting choice to a headline. If you feel irritated, offended, or merely unconvinced, the emotion becomes evidence that the assault is working.

The subtext is less about media content than about authority. "Our culture and our values" quietly defines an in-group that deserves protection, implying a coherent moral core that can be defended like territory. The media becomes the out-group, not as a flawed institution but as an adversary with intent. That move is rhetorically efficient: it discourages engagement with specifics (what story, what outlet, what claim?) and replaces it with motive-hunting. Disagreement stops being a debate and starts being infiltration.

Context matters because Bruce has built a public profile in explicitly partisan commentary, where media distrust is both a worldview and a brand. This sentence fits a broader American pattern: political entrepreneurs frame cultural change as coercion, then offer themselves as interpreters of the threat. The intent is mobilization. If the attack is "unrelenting", then vigilance becomes a civic virtue and skepticism of mainstream information becomes a loyalty test. It’s a line designed not to persuade the undecided so much as to harden the already worried into a single, shared diagnosis: you’re not imagining it; it’s war.

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Bruce, Tammy. (n.d.). From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-subtle-to-the-extreme-our-culture-and-169728/

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Bruce, Tammy. "From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-subtle-to-the-extreme-our-culture-and-169728/.

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"From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-subtle-to-the-extreme-our-culture-and-169728/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a Author from USA.

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