Cute, but they are all sound bites that may have been out of context, for how they are being ...fed.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031104A.shtml>> > > Fish. Barrel. Boom. > By William Rivers Pitt > t r u t h o u t | Perspective > > Thursday 11 March 2004 > > "I'm a firm believer in feeding people their own words back to them, when > it's appropriate." > � Trent Lott > As we hurtle headlong into the silly season, a high colonic for the > mind is in order. There is going to be a lot of back-and-forth between > the candidates regarding who said what and when. Feast, in that context, > upon this small collection: > > "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President > to explain to us what the exit strategy is." > > - George W. Bush, discussing Kosovo, Houston Chronicle, 04-09- 99 > > "I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow > Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the > nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." > > - Bill O'Reilly, on ABC's Good Morning America, 03-18-03 > > "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can > have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what > these people stood for." > > - Rush Limbaugh, Denver Post, 12-29-95 > > "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay > sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the > right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to > adultery. You have the right to anything. All of those things are > antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family and that's sort of > where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would > argue, the right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the > United States Constitution." > > - Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Associated Press, 04-22-03 > > "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious > hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if > I were you. This is not a message of hate; this is a message of > redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of > your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, > tornadoes and possibly a meteor." > > - Pat Robertson, speaking of organizers putting rainbow flags up > around Orlando to support sexual diversity, Washington Post, 06-10- 98. > For the record, Orlando remains undestroyed by meteors. > > "Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the > tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They > are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans." > > - Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska Public Radio, 08-19-96 > > "When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on > drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our > priorities are out of whack, folks." > > - Rush (currently under investigation for drug use) Limbaugh, on the > death of Jerry Garcia, 08-20-95. > > "I don't understand how poor people think." > > - George W. Bush, confiding in the Rev. Jim Wallis, New York Times, > 08-26-03 > > "Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him." > > - Rep. James Hansen (R-UT), talking about President Clinton, as > reported by journalist Steve Miner of KSUB radio who overheard his > conversation, 11-01-98 > > "We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting > Democrats with dogs." > > - Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Mother Jones, 08-95 > > "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New > York Times building." > > - Ann Coulter, New York Observer, 08-26-02 > > "Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services > and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the > face of ministers." > > - Pat Robertson again, The 700 Club, 01-18-95 > > "And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for > the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign." > > - Donald Rumsfeld, defenselink.mil, 04-09-03 > > "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 > an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." > > - Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), House Majority Whip, during a debate on > increasing the minimum wage, Congressional Record, H3706, 04-23-96 > > "Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not > prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. > All the great despotisms of the past - I'm not arguing for despotism as a > principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential trouble - > recognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing > threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of > an 'enemy of the people.' The Nazis used the same principle, which they > called Sippenhaft, 'clan liability.' In Imperial China, enemies of the > state were punished 'to the ninth degree': that is, everyone in the > offender's own generation would be killed and everyone related via four > generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations > down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed." > > - John Derbyshire, National Review, 02-15-01 > > "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get > married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is > the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and > that's the way it is, period." > > - Pat Robertson again, The 700 Club, 01-08-92 > > "Probably nothing." > > - Jeb Bush, during his losing 1994 bid for Florida Governor, when > asked what he would do for black people, quoted by Salon on 10-05- 02 > > "The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than > Hitler's." > > - Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA), The New Republic, 08-01-94 > > "When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen > here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved in > Adolph Hitler were Satanists. Many of them were homosexuals. The two > things seem to go together." > > - Pat Robertson again, The 700 Club, 01-21-93 > > "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did > not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's > in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this." > > - Lt. General William G. Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, > New York Times, 10-17-03 > > "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically > intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. > Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." > > - Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, > 02-26-02 > > "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to > the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the > bathtub." > > - Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, NPR > Morning Edition, 05-25-01 > > "I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops. > Saddam's army is down to one-third than it was before, and I think it > would be a cakewalk." > > - Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board, to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, > 12-06-01 > > "The fact of the matter is that this (increased American casualties) > is a sign of the success of our operation, not its failure." > > - Ralph Reed, GOP strategist, on MSNBC's program 'Hardball,' > 10-28-03 > > "There are some who feel that, you know, the conditions are such > that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on. We have the > force necessary to deal with the situation." > > - George W. Bush, Chicago Tribune, 07-03-03 > > "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. > government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could > agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason." > > - Paul Wolfowitz, quoted by Tim Russert on 'Meet The Press, NBC, > 06-01-03 > > "Quit looking at the symbols. Get out and get a job. Quit shooting > each other. Quit having illegitimate babies." > > - State Rep. John Graham Altman (R-SC), addressing African- American > concerns about the 'symbol' of the Confederate Flag, New York Times, > 01-24-97 > > "Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The > degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the > corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) > can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the > disenfranchisement of White men." > > - State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC), emailed to every member of the North > Carolina House and Senate, reported by the Fayetteville Observer, > 08-22-01 > > "NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a > lesbian." > > - Pat Robertson again, The 700 Club, 12-03-97 > > "My biggest fear is going to be going to the funeral of some young > Iowa man or woman who dies in this conflict and having their mother or > father come up to me and ask whether or not their son or daughter died > for America, or died to save Bill Clinton's presidency. I don't know what > I would say to those grieving parents. For that reason I believe the > President must resign immediately." > > - Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA), Congressional Record, H11963, 12-18- 98 > > "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what > day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my > beautiful mind on something like that?" > > - Barbara Bush, said on 'Good Morning America' the day before the > Iraq war started, New York Times, 01-13-03 > > "I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I don't need to > explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the > President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, > but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." > > - George W. Bush, Washington Post, 11-19-02 > > These quotes, and about a thousand others equally as preposterous, > can be found in a new book by Bruce Miller and Diana Maio titled 'Take > Them At Their Words.' The next time our valiant conservative leadership > bemoans the "corruption and fall of the nation," remember that, by and > large, these bemoaners are the clowns who have been running the circus > for the last several years. > > A few are also up for re-election in 2004. Bear that in mind. > > > ----- > Shrub 04: > Don't Switch Horsemen Mid-Apocalypse > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
