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
Which Way Is It? Domestic Affairs
"When
inflation is taken into account, it adds up to a cut in defense
spending, and that’s the first time in a long time that has happened."
-- Bob Schieffer on the January 27 CBS Evening News.
vs.
"It’s
easily overlooked, but the fact is, that in real terms, the defense
budget has been going down every year since 1985. "
-- CBS News Pentagon
correspondent David Martin on Nightwatch, January 31.
Runners-Up:
"If
there’s anything that we heard out there at the polls today, it was the
sound of Reaganomics crashing all around us. If there’s anything left
of Reagan’s trickle-down theory, Dan, it seems to be anxiety which seems
to be trickling down through just about every segment of our society."
-- Ed Bradley during CBS News election night coverage, November 6.
vs.
"We
have a lot of turnovers where Republican Governors raised taxes and
they have been turned out."
-- Lesley Stahl, also during CBS election
coverage.
“Spending and income rose slightly in Aug.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27
vs.
“Spending, Income, Orders Fall”
-- Washington Post, same day
