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
Oliver Stone Award (for Liberal Conspiracy Mongering)
“The
American Spectator broke the story, as Gwen mentioned, because they’re a
very right-wing ideological publication....What really happened was
there was a conspiracy, in my opinion, by right-wingers, including some
right-wing journalists, to press this newspaper [the Los Angeles Times]
into running this story before it was ready to, trying to get it out,
and so they spread the rumor all around town that I had threatened to
resign if it did run...I know one of the guys who was spreading it: Brit
Hume of ABC, who covers the White House, who writes for The American
Spectator. I know there's another conservative journalist who covers the
White House, Fred Barnes, who’s on the editorial board of The American
Spectator...So they were all promoting this story.”
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson on PBS’ Washington Week in Review, December 24, 1993.
Runners-up:
“She [Hillary] is really
convinced that the right wing is incredibly well-organized, and there is
kind of a hate campaign going on in this country that is, is deeply and
well-organized, and it poses a real threat to government and the
Clintons personally. And I mean, she may be right.”
– Newsweek
Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas on Inside Washington, August 13.
“Some
of us were called in by Caspar Weinberger, when he was the Secretary of
Defense. This was after Grenada, after the Grenada invasion, which
again was not covered. We don’t know the full story today. No reporters
got in for three days. I don’t know whether we really found a warehouse
full of AK-47s there or not. Maybe we planted them there. I’m not saying
we did, but we had three days to do it if we wanted to because we had
no reporters get there at the beginning.”
– Walter Cronkite on CNBC’s
Dick Cavett, March 4.
“Questions abound about how and why
Republican Kenneth Starr suddenly came to be the new Independent Counsel
in the Whitewater case replacing Republican Robert Fiske. New
disclosures are fueling questions about whether or not Starr is an
ambitious Republican partisan backed by ideologically-motivated,
anti-Clinton activists and judges from the Reagan, Bush, and Nixon
years. Correspondent Eric Engberg has tonight’s CBS Evening News reality
check.”
– Dan Rather, August 12 CBS Evening News.
