Saturday, May 22, 2010

Quotations in the News

Be careful what you wish for:

"Glenn's like the high school government teacher so many wish they'd had."
-- Sarah Palin

"Please, America, take this man for what he says.…Read Mein Kampf."
-- Glenn Beck on Obama

"Is this where we're headed?"
-- Beck, showing photos of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin

Who in their right mind ever wished they'd had a radical, right-wing emotional basket case for their high school government teacher???



In over his head:

"It's a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in the Gulf.… Come on, this is America, there will be frivolous lawsuits."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward

As Fox News anchor Shep Smith admonished, "At least act like you care."



Tone deaf:

"When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? Everybody's focused on BP and Halliburton and Transocean.…The greeniacs have been driving our oil producers off the land."
-- Rush Limbaugh

Wasn't Rush supposed to move to Costa Rica? Whenever he goes, it won't be soon enough.



Real Americans:

"[Elena Kagan has] no clue how real Americans live."
-- Rush Limbaugh

And the loudmouth blowhard Rush Limbaugh certainly does, what with his 37-million-dollar-per-year salary and his 13-million-dollar New York City penthouse. On second thought, he has been married and divorced three times (family values, anyone?) and was addicted to prescription drugs (after speaking forcefully on his show that drug abusers should be sent to jail, no less), so maybe he does share a common bond after all.



Source for all quotations: Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose dated 15-20 May 2010

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