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 Silliest Analysis
"’These
boat people,’ says the government of Hong Kong, ‘they all want to go to
America.’ Well, I swear I don’t know why, do you? I mean take Vietnam.
Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what America did for
Vietnam? Don’t they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone? Clearly
they have no more sense over there, than say, Mexicans who keep trying
to get into this country even though this country stole large parts of
their country from them in the first place."
-- Linda Ellerbee, CNN
PrimeNews, June 2.
Runners-Up:
"Sadly, many home remedies
could damage a fetus instead of kill it."
-- Newsweek Senior Editor
Melinda Beck on self-performed abortions, July 17 issue.
"Well,
am I a liberal, a conservative, or what? What...I believe in sunny
summer mornings when the grass is sweet and the wind is green with
possibilities. I believe in chili with no beans and iced tea all year
round....I believe music is too important to be left to musicians, and
that Ella Fitzgerald is the best American singer ever, and that
Beethoven would have liked Chuck Berry....And so it goes."
-- Linda
Ellerbee in her first commentary on CNN, March 20.
"But certain
times with George Bush there seems to be an irrelevancy, or he gets
something wrong. We pointed out yesterday he referred to Benjamin
Harrison dying of pneumonia after a chilly inauguration day, and of
course it was William Tyler Harrison who died."
-- NBC’s John Cochran on
William Henry Harrison, January 20.
"The [Afghan] army has
controlled this beautifully rugged landscape with the help of women
right from the revolution. It’s the women of this country who have the
most to lose if this Marxist revolution fails, if the government falls
to the fundamentalist Muslim rebels. A woman’s place in such a society
would be back under the head to toe covering of the chaterra, cooking
and bearing children."
-- Reporter Steve Hurst on CNN PrimeNews, February 9.
