The Best of Notable Quotables; December 28, 1998
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Notable Quotables; December 28, 1998
- Presidential Kneepad Award
- Wired Wicked Witch
- Hallucinating Hillary
- Corporal Cueball Carville
- Steve Brill Media Masochism
- Media McCarthyism
- Everybody But Us Shut Up Award
- Starr Behind Bars
- Good Morning Morons
- Move over Buddy Award
- Damn Conservatives
- Politics of Meaninglessness
- Carve Clinton into Mt. Rushmore
- Too Late For Our Judging
- Quote of the Year
- 1998 Award Judges
Politics of Meaninglessness Award (for the Silliest Analysis)
“The
Communist Manifesto is well worth the $12 that Verso is asking. Despite
the hype, its message is a timeless one that bears repeating every
century or so: The meek shall triumph and the mighty shall fall; the
hungry and exhausted will get restless and someday – someday! – rise up
against their oppressors. The prophet Isaiah said something like this,
and so, a little more recently, did Jesus.”
– Time columnist Barbara Ehrenreich in an April 30 book review for the Web site Salon. [62 points]
Runners-up:
“We are often judgmental about
people that are different from us...and we don’t even understand what
their problems are...A lot of students got killed at Tiananmen Square,
but I remember several students got killed at Kent State. And, remember,
they have a lot more students than we do. We shot down our own
students.”
– Ted Turner promoting the new 24-part CNN documentary series
Cold War, September 24 Washington Post. [49]
“China has a
one-child policy. Is that a good idea for all countries?”
– Good Morning
America co-host Lisa McRee to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: A
Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families, May 30.
[46]
“Ken Starr and his people have been working for three to
four years, spent more than $30 million, they’ve used dozens if not a
hundred or so FBI agents. They may have turned this up, whether you had
the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that’s like
if a frog had side pockets he’d probably wear a handgun. It didn’t
happen that way.”
– Dan Rather, Feb. 5 Late Show with David Letterman.
[41]
“I was thinking about what Jane Fonda said the other night
about North Georgia and how she thought North Georgia was not unlike
parts of the developing world and some politicians in Georgia jumped all
over her....And the truth of the matter is there are parts of America
which are just as bad as some of the worst parts in the rest of the
world and that’s desperately sad.”
– ABC News anchor Peter Jennings on
Jane Fonda’s charge that children are “starving to death” in Georgia,
April 23 CBS Late Late Show with Tom Snyder. [40]
“The women’s
movement brought change and power to millions of American females.
Virginal brides surrendered to the sexual revolution. Modern fashions
exposed body parts previously reserved for the bedroom. Entering the
work force meant the old ways that women met men were ancient history
[video clip of a milkman]. And a new breed of superwoman said ‘I can
have it all’...The search for pleasure leads some women to shop [video
of sex toys] and some to stray...And experts say many husbands and wives
can become stronger individuals, and on rare occasions, might even find
that cheating recharges their marriage.”
– CBS This Morning co-host Jane Robelot, April 23. [39]
