The Best of Notable Quotables; December 23, 1991
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 23, 1991
- Gomer Pyle Award
- Peter Arnett Award
- Iron Curtain Award
- Gulf War
- Media Hero Award
- Willie Horton Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Armand Hammer Award
- Real Reagan Legacy
- Long Dong Silver Award
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Borking Award
- Wilson-Weicker Award
- Which Way Is It?
- Silliest Analysis
- Quote of the Year
- 1991 Award Judges
Long Dong Silver Award (for Exaggerated Indignation)
“The
days of Simpson Chic are over. Now he is more often compared to
Red-baiter Joe McCarthy. The image of Simpson flinging open his jacket
and declaring he had lots of ‘stuff’ against Anita Hill – while
revealing nothing – was the lowest of many low points in the Clarence
Thomas hearings. Any Senator with a sense of history should have said,
as attorney Joseph Welch eventually did to McCarthy, ‘Senator, have you
no shame?’....[Simpson] is writing a book about the media – a little
like Stalin discussing intergovernmental relations.”
– Newsweek Washington reporter Eleanor Clift, October 28 news story.
Runners-up:
“I’ve
been in this town for 21 years, and they play a vicious brand of
politics in Washington. Washington can be a mean town. This was as
vicious a fight as I’ve ever seen except it was totally
one-sided....When you had Alan Simpson standing up there like Joe
McCarthy, reaching in his pockets and saying ‘I’m getting stuff through
faxes, and all over the country,’ he sounded just like Joe McCarthy,
let’s face it. And you had Arlen Specter, who was a prosecutor at one
time, saying that she committed perjury, when probably you couldn’t find
another prosecutor in the country that would tell you that she had
committed perjury.”
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack
Nelson on Washington Week in Review, October 18.
“Arlen Specter
accused her of perjury. If you read the record, Arlen Specter was the
one who distorted what she said. Orrin Hatch even suggested that she got
one of her charges by reading The Exorcist, I mean that she was
besieged by demons. Orrin should really stick to talking dirty. He does
that better. Alan Simpson, for those of us who were too young to know
what Joe McCarthy was really like, Alan Simpson showed us. ‘I have in my
pocket two dozen card-carrying smearers against this awful woman,’ and
then he produced those smears, those bombshells, and they were duds.”
–
Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief Al Hunt on CNN’s Capital
Gang, October 19.
