The Best of Notable Quotables; December 19, 1994
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 19, 1994
- Sore Losers Award
- Honey, I shrunk the Democratic Party
- Oliver Stone
- I Still Hate Reagan
- Apolitical Observers
- Media Hero
- Flatliner Award
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Clinton Enemies
- You're No Anita Hill
- No Money Down
- Good Morning Morons
- Damn Conservatives
- Iron Curtain Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1994 Award Judges
Damn Those Conservatives Award
“I
hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like
many black men do, of heart disease....He is an absolutely reprehensible
person.”
– USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4 PBS To the Contrary.
Runners-up:
“I think there’s a big difference when
people told Father Aristide to sort of moderate his views, they were
concerned about people being dragged through the streets, killed and
necklaced. I don’t think that is what Newt Gingrich has in mind. I think
he’s looking at a more scientific, a more civil way of lynching
people.”
– National Public Radio reporter Sunni Khalid on C-SPAN’s
Journalists Roundtable, October 14.
“Gays and lesbians are beaten
to death in the streets with increasing frequency – in part due to
irrational fear of AIDS but also because hatemongers, from comedians to
the worst of the Christian right, send the message that homosexuals have
no value in our society. Sometimes that message has a major-party
affiliation and a request for a campaign contribution. In the post-cold
war era, gays have been drafted to replace communists as the new menace
to the American Way: We’re told gays corrupt youth and commandeer art
and entertainment to win converts.”
– Dan Rather in The Nation, April 11
edition.
