The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 21, 1992
- Rodney King Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Festival of Hate
- Clinton Camelot
- I am Woman
- Henry Luce Award
- Willie Horton Award
- Silliest Analysis
- Ross Perot Award
- Real Reagan Legacy
- James Carville Award
- Iron Curtain Award
- Happy Talk Award
- Media Hero Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Quote of the Year
- 1992 Award Judges
Quote of the Year
“Greenpeace,
the public interest organization, believes that the Iraqi death toll,
civilian and military, before and after the war, may be as high as
198,000. Allied military dead are counted in the low hundreds. The
disparity is huge and somewhat embarrassing. And that’s commentary for
this evening, Tom.”
– NBC commentator John Chancellor, March 12 Nightly News.
Runners-up:
“Al Gore leaned against his orthopedic back
pillow, drank bottled water and reflected on the human spirit and his
newfound sense of self. How is it that the wooden-tongued policy wonk of
1988 has emerged as a spokesman for the inner child, an icon of the new
manhood?...But when Vice President Dan Quayle derides Gore’s notions as
‘pretty bizarre stuff,’ he may not be aware that millions of people
attend support groups every week in the U.S.”
– Time Chicago reporter
Elizabeth Taylor, October 12 issue.
“[Columbus] sailed just as
Jews and Muslims were being expelled from Spain, the persecution of
those peoples and the riches robbed from them paying for his small
armada of ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, to set sail
for new plunder. For Native Americans, the people who hardly felt
discovered, Columbus’ landing commenced a Holocaust. There’s really no
other word for the death delivered by settlers, as they scattered,
enslaved, and obliterated Indian nations on their own sacred lands.”
–
NBC weekend Today co-host Scott Simon, October 11.
“But for the
simple folk of Uzbekistan, people like Kurban Manizayov, these are
mind-wrenching times. Their simple wants were nicely cared for by the
communists. But now they've been thrust into the hurly-burly world of
market capitalism, and nobody even bothered to ask if it was all right.”
– CNN Moscow reporter Steve Hurst, August 31 World News.
– Brant Clifton, Nicholas Damask, Andy Gabron, Steve Kaminski, Marian Kelley, Tim Lamer; 1992 Media Analysts
– Jennifer Hardeback, Circulation Manager
