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likethebeerTake Them at Their Words: Shocking, Amusing and Baffling Quotations From the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004," compiled by Bruce J. Miller & Diana Maio.
"[Abortion rights activists] are homosexuals, wimps, and/or Jewish lawyers." -- Talk-radio host Stan Solomon, WIBC/Indianapolis, as reported in the Indianapolis Star, 6/9/94
"I don't care about the circumstances of a child's conception. You want to execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn child live." -- Pat Buchanan, New York Times, 2/24/96
"If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?"-- Mississippi state Sen. Mike Gunn (R), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/31/96 [that's actually quite funny, but of course horrifying. But funny. But really, really bad and horrible.]
[I'm wondering if anyone has reminded O'Reilly of this yet] "And I said on my program, 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, "Good Morning America," ABC, 3/18/03
"I don't understand how poor people think." -- George W. Bush, New York Times, 8/26/03 [No, George, we didn't think you did. ]
"Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?" -- Alan Caruba, Fargo Forum, 4/22/97
[Our own Tommy Thompson] "I thought [Jesus Christ] was a free enterpriser ... He was a carpenter's son and I thought he was doing well. He was able to change water into wine; now that to me is the classic definition of a guy in the entrepreneurial spirit." -- Gov. Tommy Thompson, R-Wis., responding to a reporter who asked him if Jesus was a socialist, Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, 7/10/96
And the creme de la creme of these quotes that explains so much: "When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class." -- Rep. Fred Heineman, R-N.C., Washington Post, 10/29/96 Under thsoe circumstances, I would love to be poor, because that means I would be earning, like $30,000 a year.
"[Abortion rights activists] are homosexuals, wimps, and/or Jewish lawyers." -- Talk-radio host Stan Solomon, WIBC/Indianapolis, as reported in the Indianapolis Star, 6/9/94
"I don't care about the circumstances of a child's conception. You want to execute somebody in the case of rape, execute the rapist and let the unborn child live." -- Pat Buchanan, New York Times, 2/24/96
"If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?"-- Mississippi state Sen. Mike Gunn (R), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/31/96 [that's actually quite funny, but of course horrifying. But funny. But really, really bad and horrible.]
[I'm wondering if anyone has reminded O'Reilly of this yet] "And I said on my program, 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, "Good Morning America," ABC, 3/18/03
"I don't understand how poor people think." -- George W. Bush, New York Times, 8/26/03 [No, George, we didn't think you did. ]
"Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?" -- Alan Caruba, Fargo Forum, 4/22/97
[Our own Tommy Thompson] "I thought [Jesus Christ] was a free enterpriser ... He was a carpenter's son and I thought he was doing well. He was able to change water into wine; now that to me is the classic definition of a guy in the entrepreneurial spirit." -- Gov. Tommy Thompson, R-Wis., responding to a reporter who asked him if Jesus was a socialist, Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, 7/10/96
And the creme de la creme of these quotes that explains so much: "When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class." -- Rep. Fred Heineman, R-N.C., Washington Post, 10/29/96 Under thsoe circumstances, I would love to be poor, because that means I would be earning, like $30,000 a year.
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Date: 2004-06-09 02:14 pm (UTC)Sad and funny, and really, it all makes me wonder why these people are so influential when they're so clueless.
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Date: 2004-06-09 03:14 pm (UTC)"Um, Kevin? That's too much money for a lot of people."
"What are you talking about."
"A lot of people can't afford to pay that. I know I can't."
"What are you talking about. That's too much money? You're scaring me!"
Yes, Virginia, there are poor people.
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Do you think O'Reilly would deflect saying the President was given bad information? You think? Maybe? God they're annoying.
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Date: 2004-06-09 05:20 pm (UTC)No, I really don't think that O'Reilly would do that. He would deny it, then when confonted w/the footage, say that it was taken out of context.