The Best of Notable Quotables; December 16, 1996
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 16, 1996
- Craig Livingstone Award
- Freddy Krueger Award
- Chris Dodd Talking Points
- Good Morning Morons
- Until Every Child is Dead
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Blaming Reagan
- I Am Woman
- Fear of the Competition
- Al Gore Tax Cut Scheme
- Damn Conservatives
- Which Way Is It?
- Media Hero
- Timothy McVeigh Award
- Bryant Gumbel Award
- If the Bias Fits Award
- What's the Frequency
- Quote of the Year
- 1996 Award Judges
Politics of Meaninglessness Award (for the Silliest Analysis)
George Will: "What the conservatives are doing (on a flag
amendment), bless their hearts, misguidedly this time is exactly
what the left wing tried to do with the Equal Rights Amendment.
That was a perfectly pointless abuse of the Constitution as a
political gesture."
Cokie Roberts: "I would disagree with you there as a mother of a
son who is protected by the Constitution and a daughter who is
not."
-- Exchange on This Week with David Brinkley, December 10,
1995. [70 points]
Runners-up
"Just how tightly scripted is this convention? Well, a Russian
television reporter said today that this is as tightly controlled
as anything the Communist Party ever put on, Tom."
-- NBC reporter David Bloom, August 14 Nightly News story on the
Republican convention. [67]
"How are women on the road different from men? `They are more
meticulous, more organized. More multidimensional,' she [CBS News
campaign producer Susan Zirinsky] says. `And less cynical.' Dan
Rather, she insists, is the exception. What makes Rather
different? `Dan's a girl,' she says. `Dan has the enthusiasm of a
girl. There's a girl's soul lurking in him.'"
-- March 23 TV Guide story on women covering the campaign.[49]
