Posted on 12/24/2004 2:13:34 AM PST by ajolympian2004
In the year of Rathergate and Dan's fall from grace, Americans may be particularly receptive to the Media Research Center's 17th annual awards for the most biased, manipulative or downright goofy quotes from liberals who dominate the elite media. I'm honored to serve, once again, on MRC's distinguished panel of conservatively biased judges. Here are some of the highlights from among the winners and runners up of Best Notable Quotables of 2004:
Captain Dan the Forgery Man Award: "The story is true. The story is true.I appreciate the sources who took risks to authenticate our story. So, one, there is no internal investigation. Two, somebody may be shell-shocked, but it is not I, and it is not anybody at CBS News. Now, you can tell who is shell-shocked by the ferocity of the people who are spreading these rumors."
- Dan Rather in a sidewalk exchange with reporters on Sept. 10, denying rumors that CBS had launched an investigation to determine if the "memos" were forged
Damn Those Conservatives Award: "You have made so many offensive comments over the years. Do you regret any of them?" "You seem indifferent to suffering. Have you ever suffered yourself?"
- two of the questions posed to National Review founder William F. Buckley by The New York Times Magazine's Deborah Soloman, July 11
Good Morning Morons Award:
Katie Couric: "Time magazine's Person of the Year issue hits newsstands today, and this year it honors the American soldier. Jim Kelly is Time's managing editor and veteran war photographer. James Nachtwey was embedded with the Army's 1st Armored Division in Baghdad and took the remarkable images in this week's issue. Gentlemen, welcome. Tell me why you all decided to honor the American soldier? Wondering why there's no woman on the cover, too?"
Jim Kelly, pointing to cover: "This is a woman."
Couric: "Oh, there you go, oh sorry.I couldn't tell because of her helmet."
- exchange on NBC's Today show, Dec. 22, 2003
Matt Lauer: "Let me talk about this idea that a ragtag group - not well-fed, not well-clothed, completely underequipped as compared to this great British army and the Hessians - could accomplish this. And let me ask you to think about what is going on in Iraq today, where the insurgents - not well-equipped, smaller in numbers - the greatest army in the world is their opposition. What's the lesson here?"
Lynne Cheney: "Well the difference, of course, is who's fighting on the side of freedom."
- exchange on the Nov. 9 Today show where Cheney was promoting her new children's book on General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War
Politics of Meaningless Award for the Silliest Analysis: "I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes. That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex. It just never came up in our particular relations."
- former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, tying himself in politically correct knots, when asked why his marriage to Betsy Cronkite has lasted so long, as quoted in the March 2 San Francisco Chronicle
"Today the government said that America's prison population grew 2.9 percent last year to nearly 2.1 million. That's a record number of people in jail and prison. One out of every 75 American men was incarcerated. The number went up even though the crime rate continued to fall."
- ABC's Peter Jennings on World News Tonight, May 27
(Even though? Apparently, it hasn't occurred to Peter that the crime rate might be falling precisely because we're keeping repeat offenders safely behind bars rather than setting them free to prey on the public.
Quote of the Year: "What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find."
- Dan Rather teasing a report on The CBS Evening News on March 31, the day four American civilians were killed and mutilated in Fallujah, Iraq
Runner up: "I don't think history has any reason to be kind to him."
- CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer recalling Ronald Reagan on CNN's Larry King Live, June 14
If your stomach is strong enough to handle the complete awards list, you can get it on-line at www.mrc.org.
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And folks wonder why 50% of the population, when polled, feel we are losing the war on terror, the economy has hit the skids, and the President's performance is mediocre. Sheesh.
Thanks for posting and Merry Christmas.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think it was payback time as far as he was concerned? You remember the Republican Convention and how the United Nations was burlesqued and Tony Blankley was seen guffawing and knee-slapping with his uncontrollable laughter?
MR. BUCHANAN: It's a great hit at every Republican convention.
MR. BLANKLEY: It was carefully calibrated laughter.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Exit --
MS. CLIFT: The U.N. can get back at us in other ways. They're supposed to oversee the elections in Iraq in January. They have 35 people now in Iraq in a bunker.
MR. BUCHANAN: Good luck.
MS. CLIFT: And the U.S. is going to have a hard time pulling off those elections without the U.N.
..................Merry Canadian/British Sharia-day?
Uuuggghhh! Mizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Clift is the main reason I'm trying to invent sound-proof paper bags.
I am absolutely astounded at the malice aforethought driving such an idea. Saddam and his Baathists have billions squirreled away to resist the Americans. Saddam's loyalists with Syrian/Palestinian/Iranian sympathizers manifesting an underfed appearance and ragtag clothing is intended to let them blend in with the more pathetic elements of their population (a war crime) Saddam was so effective for so many years to oppress to 14th century level productivity and backwardness. That is, Saddam's purpose for these dependent constituents has long been to be used as cannon fodder.
Now comes Matt Lauer clearly drawing the claim that these insurgents have been accomplishing great things despite their displayed features of Saddam's oppression?
They have accomplished beheadings, kidnapping of civilians, ransoms, extortion via Al-Jazeera and camcorders? Suicide bombings while posing as civilian contractors for the US? They have accomplished the cowardly murdering so many of the US's dearly-loved children who fight with such honor and Matt Lauer suggests the insurgents have accomplished anything positive? Rend clothing, pull on hair!
The things they have "accomplished" are base and totally anti-civilized behavior. They should have nothing but shame for themselves. Their leaders stoking human creatures to such behaviors while promising they will be met in paradise by 72 virgins with whom they will continually "have their way" is at least as sick as anything of we've ever accused Adolf Hitler. Their religious network fomenting these fanatical "accomplishments" form a vast conspiracy numbering in the hundreds of thousands (think Saudia Arabia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, etc., too), compared with the relatively small circle stoking barbaric, murderous behavior in 1933-1945 German hierarchy.
Matt Lauer is not simply being a cad whose justifications for murder would be limited to killing his wife and child while telling lies to potential girlfriends. Matt is holding forth the in glory, the so-called "accomplishment" of killing and maiming thousands of our nation's youth.
Matt has earned, with those knee-pads, at least runner-up status.
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I truly believe the war on terror could be over in less than a year if the WW media would tell the truth about the "insurgents"
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Someone might also point out to old Matt that at the time that 'ragtag' army was defeating the British army and its Hessian mercenaries - the British army as also involved in several far larger and more economically significant (at the time) battles and only had a small per centage of its attention, talent and forces engaged in North America. (Not to take anything away from the success of the colonists.) Also, and far more importantly, any analogy between vicious, murderous terrorist thugs fighting to perpetrate a thug-acracy while hiding behind women and children while they murder civilians and the American colonists fighting to protect their right to self-government might be considered, shall we say, inappropriate? (That means it is a totally false comparison for those taught/teaching in America's public schools.)
Someone might also point out to old Matt that at the time that 'ragtag' army was defeating the British army and its Hessian mercenaries - the British army as also involved in several far larger and more economically significant (at the time) battles and only had a small per centage of its attention, talent and forces engaged in North America. (Not to take anything away from the success of the colonists.) Also, and far more importantly, any analogy between vicious, murderous terrorist thugs fighting to perpetrate a thug-acracy while hiding behind women and children while they murder civilians and the American colonists fighting to protect their right to self-government might be considered, shall we say, inappropriate? (That means it is a totally false comparison for those taught/teaching in America's public schools.)
Dear, dear Katie! I will always remember her grilling a firearms expert during the Wash., D.C. shootings: "And I understand that this gun (AR-16) is so deadly because it has spirals in the barrel?"
My wife almost had to call 911 for me on that one.
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