The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 24, 1990
- Iron Curtain Award
- Tax Fairness Award
- Gas Lines Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Ecological Panic
- Good Morning Morons
- Most Honest Confession
- Gorebasm Award
- Thurgood Marshall Award
- Tax Advocacy Award
- Media Hero Abroad
- Media Hero At Home
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Reagan Legacy
- Domestic Affairs
- Joe Isuzu Award
- Gennadi Gerasimov
- Foreign Affairs
- Silliest Analysis
- Quote of the Year
Thurgood Marshall Judicial Reporting Award
"Supreme
Court nominee David Souter wants the world to stop viewing him as a
nerd. Senate Democrats want to know if, instead, Souter is a neanderthal
-- a mean-spirited conservative bent on wrecking constitutional
protections for women, minorities, and accused criminals."
-- Beginning
of September 13 USA Today cover story by legal reporter Tony Mauro.
Runners-Up:
"Chief
Justice Rehnquist had the kind of image problems that might be expected
of a jurist who habitually rejected constitutional equality for women,
approved the execution of allegedly insane prisoners without a hearing,
denied constitutional equality to aliens and bastards, asserted that the
public did not have a constitutional right to attend court trials, said
prisoners had no rights to practice religious freedom, and spoke warmly
of the legendary Isaac (‘Hanging Judge’) Parker, who cheerfully ordered
eighty-five executions."
-- Former CBS News law reporter Fred Graham in
his book Happy Talk.
"Senator Simon, is there any doubt in your
mind that [Souter’s] views pretty well parallel those of John Sununu’s
which means he’s anti-abortion or anti-women’s rights, whichever way you
want to put it?"
-- Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, July 23.
