Bigoted pandering anyone?
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
--Presidential candidate Joe Biden.
“Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m naive, but Sam, I guess I think that anyone who’s not going to vote for Barrack Obama because he is black isn’t going to vote for a Democrat anyway.”
-- George Stephanopoulos: Exchange on ABC’s “This Week,” May 13.
“Perhaps the outpouring of sympathy for [the falsely arrested Duke lacrosse players] Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David Evans is just a bit misplaced....As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives....They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.”
-- “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran the day after the North Carolina attorney general declared the players innocent of highly-publicized rape charges, April 12.
Liberals Favorite World Leaders:
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country."
--Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“He was not what I expected. He was very dignified. He was warm, friendly. He likes the U.S. It’s George Bush that he doesn’t like. He also was very personal. He talked about how hard his life was, that he wished he could be in love but you can’t be when you are heading a country.”
-- ABC’s Barbara Walters interview w/Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, “Nightline,” 3/16.
“We’ve gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that’s a good thing.”
-- Howard Dean
The Non-Biased Mainstream Media!
“You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once, and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, ‘Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?’ And I said, ‘That’s what journalists do.’ And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I’ve ever had.”
-- Co-host Diane Sawyer joking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” following a report on how some people try to avoid serving on a jury, July 12.
“Al Qaeda 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 Qaeda -- worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
-- MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann in an interview with Playboy magazine, October issue.
“I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it’s an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don’t have anything else to do, they don’t have a job, or they can’t find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn’t produce the best Army.”
-- CBS’s Andy Rooney, MSNBC’s “Imus in the Morning,” March 14.
“Everything you said about [withdrawing some troops from] Iraq yesterday, and everything you will say, is a deception, for the purpose of this one cynical, unacceptable, brutal goal: perpetuating this war indefinitely. War today, war tomorrow, war forever!...A man with any self respect, having inadvertently revealed such an evil secret, would have already resigned and fled the country! You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir!...Mr. Bush, our presence in Iraq must end, even if it means your resignation, even if it means your impeachment, even if it means a different Republican to serve out your term, even if it means a Democratic Congress and those true patriots among the Republicans standing up and denying you another penny for Iraq, other than for the safety and safe conduct home of our troops. This country cannot run the risk of what you can still do to this country in the next 500 days.”
-- MSNBC “Countdown” anchor Keith Olbermann
“As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch”
-- Headline over a story by McClatchy News Service 10/16.
Hillary:
“I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”
“We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“(We)…can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
Celebrities… while you were out buying your popcorn…
"When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke." -- Robert Altman
"I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color." -- Ed Asner (ha ha ha! You mean like Germany, USSR, etc Ed)?
"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies." -- Sheryl Crow
"(W)hen Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement." -- Janeane Garofalo
"Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" -- Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders (decades after the height of their record selling years thankfully)
"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." -- Bill Maher
Classics:
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. - Jean Jaqueas Rousseau
A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. - Rosellen Brown
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson 1912
I would remind you, that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater
“The four groups most opposed to gay marriage are blacks, Hispanics, old people and blue-collar workers -- i.e., the four pillars of the Democratic Party." - Ann Coulter
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