The Way It Is: Not Your Basic Even-Handed Caring Centrist Moderation

The Richmond [VA] Times-Dispatch ^ | January 18, 2004 | Ross Mackenzie

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So here we are again, with another calendar year checked off — and the year's winning quotations from the media (mostly television) rated by the Media Research Council (www. mediaresearch.org). It's full of doozies.

The MRC collects quotations certifyng generally the idiocy of many in the mainline media, specificially the idiot leftism — even of "personalities" who seemingly will go to their graves protesting the very suggestion they are anything but even-handed caring centrist moderates.

With that, here are samples from the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2003" (Disclaimer: I have judged such collections as an MRC panelist in the past, but not in 2003.)

• Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas (quoted January 19): "This is the worst President ever. [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."

• MSNBC's David Shuster (February 17): "The size of the demonstrat[ions], at least here, at least in Europe, seems to underscore … that there are now perhaps two world superpowers. There's the United States and then there are those millions of people who took to the streets opposing U.S. policy."

• Bill Moyers on PBS (February 28): "I decided to put on my flag pin tonight — first time. Until now I haven't thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see … . I put it on to take it back. The flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo — the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism … . I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks, or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don't have to make it … . I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us."

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Bill Moyers on PBS (February 28): "I decided to put on my flag pin tonight ? first time. Until now I haven't thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see ? . I put it on to take it back. The flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo ? the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism ? . I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks,

Yeah right! When Moyers was Johnson's butt boy, what did he ever do to stop the Vietnam war?

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Arab dirtbag Helen Thomas (quoted January 19): "This is the worst President ever. [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history."

Heck, he isn't even the worst President in the last two Presidents.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

Check these:

Ted Turner:
"I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years."

No Ted, you featherbrained imbecile, you will be extinct within 50 years. And the rest of "humanity" won't give a damn.

Charles Pierce, Boston Globe Magazine:
"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

You couldn't make this kind of clueless stuff up.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F