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(Salon) Amusing Best political and media quotes of the year. And by "best" they mean "jaw-droppingly, mind-numbingly stupid"   (salon.com) divider line 26
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flavor of the month 2007-12-26 09:26:39 PM  
What's appealing about Rudy Giuliani is not the generous side, what's appealing about him is the tough cop side.

Right. You just wait until daddy gets home.

Yes, that part...

That Daddy.

... of the daddy. It's the tough cop side, so...

Yes. Yes" --




When the next Republican family warrior is outed as a homosexual, anyone who expresses surprise should be throat-punched. These people are so gay for each other they have rainbows shooting out of their asses.

 
Yadfothgildloc 2007-12-26 09:55:10 PM  
Submitter: "jaw-droppingly, mind-numbingly stupid"

True. Very, very true.

 
Jmast7 [TotalFark] 2007-12-26 10:15:51 PM  
My favorite:

"Does he have sex appeal? . . . Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man's shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of, a little bit of cigar smoke?" -- Chris Matthews, fantasizing about the pleasing, manly body smells of Fred Thompson.

Tweety's such a moron, but that's just hilarious...

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2007-12-26 10:19:57 PM  
Well, folks, it looks like we've gotten the politics and journalism we deserve.

I'd be bothered, but American Idol's starting soon...

 
GodsTumor 2007-12-27 12:00:37 AM  
What's appealing about Rudy Giuliani is not the generous side, what's appealing about him is the tough cop side.

Right. You just wait until daddy gets home.

Yes, that part...

That Daddy.

... of the daddy. It's the tough cop side, so...

Yes. Yes" --


OH SPANK ME DADDY...SPANK ME!

 
AntiNerd 2007-12-27 12:10:57 AM  
You can just feel that pattern of liberal bias, can't you?

 
Foxxinnia 2007-12-27 12:16:45 AM  
I suppose I can take solace in this failure since it's just some guy's blog.

 
SphericalTime [TotalFark] 2007-12-27 12:30:29 AM  
Foxxinnia: I suppose I can take solace in this failure since it's just some guy's blog.

Greenwald's a fairly well known political commentator.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2007-12-27 12:53:43 AM  
Some of these guys sound like serious fags, and not in a good way, either. The kind you want to take down to some leather club deep in the bowels of Hollywood and pay three or four hardcore fetish boys to go to town on their lily-white asses.

Not that I would know, or anything.

 
Comrade438 2007-12-27 01:46:11 AM  
SphericalTime: Foxxinnia: I suppose I can take solace in this failure since it's just some guy's blog.

Greenwald's a fairly well known political commentator sock puppet.


Fixt.

 
Saiga410 2007-12-27 02:04:20 AM  
"Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive" --

Mitt Romney, invoking the cowardly flagship of the modern GOP in arguing for limitless presidential powers and, with one short sentence, completely repudiating the core, founding American political value as most famously expressed by Patrick Henry.


I would like a bit of context with that. Is he talking about abortion? Or is it the Shivo shiat? Or something else?

About half sounds like they are not taken in the light heartedness they were originally presented and in the other half the speaker needs to be backhanded.

mehhh

 
Party Boy [TotalFark] 2007-12-27 02:12:40 AM  
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As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus says, most reporters today actually try to avoid getting scoops because they "worry about sort of getting out ahead of something" and - gasp! - making their friends inside Official Washington mad at them. So rather than, say, do the real work of reporting news, journalism has become a profession that is almost entirely about PR, transcription and packaging Establishment spin for news copy. This is why, for example, many of the highest-profile political "journalists" like Joe Klein and David Broder never bother to actually report anything anymore - but instead spend most of their time pontificating on horse race polls and campaign gossip, expecting us to believe that's real "news."

 
Party Boy [TotalFark] 2007-12-27 02:15:54 AM  
Comrade438: SphericalTime: Foxxinnia: I suppose I can take solace in this failure since it's just some guy's blog.

Greenwald's a fairly well known political commentator sock puppet.

Fixt.


Im not sure who you believe he is a sockpuppet for.

 
Sgt Otter [TotalFark] 2007-12-27 02:16:21 AM  
Saiga410: "Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive" --

Mitt Romney, invoking the cowardly flagship of the modern GOP in arguing for limitless presidential powers and, with one short sentence, completely repudiating the core, founding American political value as most famously expressed by Patrick Henry.

I would like a bit of context with that. Is he talking about abortion? Or is it the Shivo shiat? Or something else?


I believe it was in reference to his "we must give up every freedom and civil liberty in this country if it will save one American from getting a wedgie from a terrorist" philosophy.

 
jezz [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-12-27 02:21:27 AM  
AntiNerd: You can just feel that pattern of liberal bias, can't you?

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

 
skookum 2007-12-27 02:54:38 AM  
Yes, and out-of-context quotes like these are the bread and butter of liberals out to discredit this administration. There is simply nothing more pathetic than someone cherry-picking a quote to make it fit their short-sighted liberal agenda, the drearily predictable charges that this administration is incompetent and in the pocket of the big oil companies, or even better eroding our rights to fight terror. It's ridiculous, and this is why government strikes back with restrictions like curfews and detaining individuals without formal charge. Liberals simply make too much out of too little, and by the time their side of the story makes the mainstream, it has passed through at least a dozen people and loses whatever original meaning it might have had.

 
Whatsleft 2007-12-27 03:11:36 AM  
There's one quote from an administration official skookum.

 
skookum 2007-12-27 03:22:28 AM  
Yes, I'm sure there is, but the truth is that someone in the media had it out for Bush and decided to use whatever resources he (or she) had to generate unfavorable media directed at the Bush administration. It is most likely someone over at MSNBC and possibly employs Olbermann and maybe even Jon Stewart.

And it might be too late for some of these aspiring journalistic terrorists in the media, but not for those of you who keep a cool head, and eschew the Democratic party altogether. Do the opposite of the propaganda and you vote reasonably, yes, Republican, and there are no other candidates like Hillary or Obama. They simply do not exist.

 
erik-k [recently expired TotalFark] 2007-12-27 03:59:01 AM  
skookum:

Please get a new comedy routine, this one is full of fail.

 
randomjsa 2007-12-27 04:06:43 AM  
Ah, Salon.com, bringing you the best in bias.

 
Wareq 2007-12-27 06:05:28 AM  
Headslam is the new facepalm.
www.andrew.cmu.edu

 
tychoides 2007-12-27 10:27:42 AM  
Fail "story" is full of fail on fail website. Fail.

/Fail

 
tbriggs 2007-12-27 01:46:59 PM  
Damn, that Chris Matthews gets serious man-crushes.

 
Alphax 2007-12-27 05:28:50 PM  
Well, I'd say Journalism is currently dead in America.

God DAMN those are some stupid quotes! Those quotes should lose their jobs and find work that fits their skills better.

 
chunksmediocrites 2007-12-27 10:45:53 PM  
skookum: Yes, and out-of-context quotes like these are the bread and butter of liberals out to discredit this administration. There is simply nothing more pathetic than someone cherry-picking a quote to make it fit their short-sighted liberal agenda, the drearily predictable charges that this administration is incompetent and in the pocket of the big oil companies, or even better eroding our rights to fight terror. It's ridiculous, and this is why government strikes back with restrictions like curfews and detaining individuals without formal charge. Liberals simply make too much out of too little, and by the time their side of the story makes the mainstream, it has passed through at least a dozen people and loses whatever original meaning it might have had.

Translation: don't write down what conservatives say because using their own actual words against them isn't the proper position of toadying to authoritarian politicos. Don't hold the sycophantic members of the press, who have neither the integrity nor ability to carry the flag of journalism, accountable for doing a hideously poor job of informing themselves or the public. Liberals doubleplus bad.

You continue to do an amazing job as a cunning subversive, skookum- writing as a brown-shirt internet auxiliary, making the right-wingers cringe to see their rationales pared down to the simplest 'obey Daddy or be punished', fear-driven cry for help. Kudos!

 
King Something [TotalFark] 2007-12-28 03:42:00 AM  
Don't quote me, bro!

 
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