The Best of Notable Quotables; December 25, 1989
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 25, 1989
- Silliest Analysis
- Good News Is Bad News
- The Economy
- Blame America First
- Media Hero
- Foreign Affairs
- Joe Isuzu
- Damn Conservatives
- American Politics
- Most Honest Confession
- Real Ronald Reagan
- Real Jimmy Carter
- No Agenda Here
- Walter Mondale Award
- Most Insane Comparison
- Quote of the Year
Award For The Most Inane Comparison
"Thousands may
have been gunned down in Beijing, but what about the millions of
American kids whose lives are being ruined by an enormous failure of the
country’s educational system...We can and we should agonize about the
dead students in Beijing, but we’ve got a much bigger problem here at
home."
-- John Chancellor’s commentary on NBC Nightly News, June 20.
Runners-Up:
"In
a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke
is more overt, of course, but he’s really just pushing the same buttons
and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so
effectively for the Bush campaign last year."
-- Reporter Judd Rose on
ABC’s Prime Time Live, November 2.
"Will the military leaders
there b embarrassed by this, will this be something like Kent State was
for our military?"
-- CBS reporter Eric Engberg referring to China on
Nightwatch, June 7.
"Like North, Castro has always portrayed
foreign policy as an endless struggle between darkness and light, and
the Fidels and Ollies of the world desperately need each other. ‘Great
Satans,’ observes Hunter, [of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies] ‘always come in pairs.’"
-- U.S. News & World Report Senior Writer Steven Roberts, April 17.
