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
Quote of the Year
“I
would be happy to give him [Clinton] a blow job just to thank him for
keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with
their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the
theocracy off our backs.”
– Time contributor and former reporter Nina Burleigh recalling what she told the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz about her feeling toward Bill Clinton, as recounted by Burleigh in the July 20 New York Observer. [121 points]
Runners-up:
“Mr.
President, we love you. I want to hug you, I want to hug you, please do
the right thing. This is nothing, this is nothing. Thomas Jefferson did
not have this in mind, I swear to God....I would give Ken Starr the
Nobel Peace Prize were he to be man enough not to refer a sex lie to the
House for impeachment.”
– Geraldo Rivera urging Clinton not to
cooperate, August 6 edition of Rivera Live on CNBC. [66 points]
Washington
Post media reporter Howard Kurtz: “It’s interesting to watch them, Ann
Lewis and others, dutifully drag themselves before the cameras yesterday
and saying, ‘I know I’ve been telling you for months that this didn’t
happen. Well it did happen, but no one cares and lets move on.’ So their
own credibility has taken a hit.”
Co-host Lisa McRee: “But it’s also courageous professionalism, some would say.”
– Exchange from ABC’s Good Morning America, August 19, just after Clinton admitted he misled his staff. [39 points]
“But,
do you give the President at least a little, not credit, but a little
sympathy, when you read details like snapping the straps of a thong
underwear, her thong underwear to entice him, asking for a job. Do you
think that it mitigates our view of the President in any way?”
– Good
Morning America co-host Lisa McRee describing Monica Lewinsky’s
testimony to conservative columnist Betsy Hart, September 17. [33
points]
