The Best of Notable Quotables; December 20, 1993
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 20, 1993
- I am Woman
- Courage to Change
- Greed is GoodAward
- Damn Conservatives
- Good Morning Morons
- I Still Hate Reagan
- What's the Frequency Award
- White Men Can Go Jump
- Henry Luce Would Roll Over
- Media Hero
- Enhanced Contribution and Investment
- Bernie Sanders Socialist
- Silliest Analysis Award
- Dr. Kevorkian Award
- Which Way is It?
- Dumbest Quote of the Year
- 1993 Award Judges
Dumbest Quote of the Year
“Corporations
pay public relations firms millions of dollars to contrive the kind of
grass-roots response that Falwell or Pat Robertson can galvanize in a
televised sermon. Their followers are largely poor, uneducated, and
easy to command.”
– Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf, February 1 news story.
Runners-up:
“Clinton is giving the
best evidence yet of his approach to leadership. It’s about
understanding, not threats; accommodation, not confrontation; about
getting people (or at least Democrats) to sing the same song. The style
is reminiscent of another patient, nonjudgmental figure given to
hugging in public: Barney the Dinosaur.”
– Newsweek reporters Howard
Fineman and Eleanor Clift, August 9.
“If either of the two
[Madonna or Michael Jackson] is the logical heir to Marilyn Monroe, it
is clearly Michael Jackson, who is the more bruised and authentically
vulnerable of the two....Not only is he black and white, male and
female, but also young and old, hip and square, the crotch-grabbing
self-appointed guardian of the world’s children.”
– MacNeil-Lehrer
NewsHour essayist Anne Taylor Fleming, April 7.
“Roger
[Clinton]’s life is in some ways the story of any younger sibling
clobbered by the spectacular success of the one who came before. The
presidential brother syndrome. If your brother is Christ, you have a
choice: become a disciple, or become an anti-christ, or find yourself
caught somewhere between the two.”
– Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld, January 24 “Style” section story.
Post-Balloting Entry for Dumbest Question of the Year
Reporter Nina Totenberg: “Have you ever cried over these cases?”
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun: “Have I ever what?”
Totenberg: “Have you ever cried over them?”
Blackmun: “No.”
– Exchange about capital punishment cases on ABC’s Nightline, November 18.
– Andrew Gabron, Mark Honig, Kristin Johnson, Steve Kaminski, Mark Rogers; Media Analysts
