The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 18, 1995
- Until Every Child Is Dead
- Damn Conservatives
- Republicans Make Us Sick
- Afraid of the Competition
- Purveyors of Hate and Division
- Mathematical Disabilities
- Embodiment of All Evil
- Good Morning Morons
- I Still Hate Reagan
- Media Hero
- Not Guilty of Bias
- Mean-Spirited Republican
- It's OK for Us to Hate Them
- Eleanor Clift Award
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Which Way Is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1995 Award Judges
...But It's OK For Us to Hate Them Award (for Hypocritical Media Hatemongering)
“Most of the KKK has joined the Republican Party. They don’t have to be there [marching].”
– Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page on the October 15 McLaughlin Group, in a Million Man March discussion.
Runners-up:
“For urban dwellers, and especially the poor, the Republican Party as currently constituted is the enemy – the source of endless destructive, mean-spirited and racist initiatives....The unspoken question on Kelly Street [in the Bronx] was how, in good conscience, General Powell could serve as the standard-bearer of a party that is waging all-out war against the poor and racial and ethnic minorities (and which is hostile to the interests of the middle class as well).... For years, the insidious and blatantly racist strategy of the Republican Party has been to pit the middle classes against the lower classes, while sucking money from both groups up the economic pyramid to the smiling faces at the top.”
– Former NBC reporter Bob Herbert in his New York Times
column, September 22.
“From the pronunciamentos out of
Washington, you’d think the new Congress were a slash-and-burn Khmer
Rouge, determined to rid Phnom Penh of every member of the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, every painter who ever got a dime out of the
National Endowment for the Arts, every child who was ever difficult, and
other inconvenient co-dependents who ought instead to be growing rice
and eating fishpaste in the boondocks.”
– CBS Sunday Morning TV critic
John Leonard, January 8.
“Too bad he didn’t say a word or two on
behalf of public broadcasting, currently under attack by a crowd of
power-drunk crackpots in Congress who want to exterminate it. Kermit the
Frog will wind up in the kitchen of a French restaurant if they get
their way.”
– Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales reviewing the State
of the Union address, January 25.
