Most outrageous statements in 05 (US media)

[Kralizec]

Oh boy...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512230006

Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05]

[quote]

Tucker Carlson: "Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada." [MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson, 12/15/05]

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Thread should be titled "Statements made by alleged conservatives that liberals jump on because it takes the spotlight off of stupid things they say and more importantly do."

It is utter absurdity to assume that all of the "most outrageous statements in 05" are from conservatives. Howard Dean himself proves that incorrect.

I guarantee that the far majority of posts in this will be:

"Uhuhuhu. Conservatives are stoopid. So is Bush. Stoopid."

[Kralizec]

Yeah, they're indeed biased.

So add your own here then

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

7 pages of outrageous goodness

[Kralizec]

Good, but it lacks humour...
No matter your political affiliation, who can honestly not laugh at this?

Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05]

Maybe it's because radicals on the right have more humour then those on the left...

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I agree; some of the conservative quotes are quite funny. But maybe the quotes of liberals are less funny and more scary, more wrong.




Limbaugh can be priceless.

[Goofball]

I agree; some of the conservative quotes are quite funny. But maybe the quotes of liberals are less funny and more scary, more wrong.

Hmm. I just grabbed a couple from your link and I don't see anything outrageous or wrong about them:

Andrea Mitchell: "It is an iconic picture: American hostages, hands bound and blindfolded, being paraded outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran by their captors. But has one of those student radicals now become Iran’s newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?...Tonight, U.S. intelligence officials say that they will continue to study this, but may never have definitive proof of what the role was of Iran’s new president, Brian."Brian Williams: "Andrea, what would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called terrorists at the time by the British Crown, after all."
Mitchell: "Indeed, Brian."
— NBC Nightly News, June 30.

"I just want to say: Who are we? We are people who have always been for inspections of prisons, for some degree of human rights, and now we’re defending neither.... We have now violated everything that we stand for. It is the first time in my life I have been ashamed of my country."
— NPR’s Nina Totenberg, commenting on a front-page Washington Post report that captured terrorists are being held at undisclosed sites, Inside Washington, Nov. 4.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I agree; some of the conservative quotes are quite funny. But maybe the quotes of liberals are less funny and more scary, more wrong.

Your close but a bit off. The difference is the conservatives are trying to be funny with tongue in cheek while the liberals are deadly serious and mean every word they say.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

"It’s like he [President Bush] stuck a broomstick in his [FDR’s] wheelchair wheels."

— Newsweek’s Jon Meacham on MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning May 9, discussing Bush’s criticism of Roosevelt’s Yalta deal with Stalin on post-war Europe. [62 points]

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: "[Judge Alito] thought it was okay that Pennsylvania insisted that a woman get her husband’s permission before she got an abortion...."
CNN’s Carol Costello: "Why, legally, would you uphold something like that? That a woman would have to check with her husband first in order to get an abortion?...I guess what I’m, I’m trying to get at is, is this is a very conservative judge, and he’s going to be against legalized abortion? I mean, you could draw that conclusion from this, couldn’t you? Or could I?"
Toobin: "I think it’s a very good indication that this is a judge who will want to overturn Roe v. Wade."
— Exchange on CNN’s Daybreak October 31, soon after word of Alito’s impending nomination leaked out. In fact, the law only required notification if the husband was also the baby’s father, not his "permission." [48]

One of my favorites:

"The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for President, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."
— Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas, as quoted in the "Under the Dome" column by Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour in The Hill newspaper, July 28. [68 points]

Co-host Mike Jerrick: "What do you think’s going to happen Sunday?"
FNC reporter Steve Harrigan, just back from Iraq: "I think there’s going to be a bloodbath on Sunday....All over the place, especially in Baghdad and a few other cities."
— FNC’s Fox & Friends, January 28, two days before Iraq’s largely peaceful elections. [71 points]

And not all of the conservative statements are wrong or outrageous (in my opinion, of course):

Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." [Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, 9/28/05]

(We don't have to rehash this, do we?)

David Horowitz on Cindy Sheehan: "It's very hard to have respect for a woman who exploits the death of her own son and doesn't respect her own son's life. ... She portrays him as an idiot." [MSNBC's Connected: Coast to Coast, 8/16/05]

[Gawain of Orkeny]

The difference this time is the conservative ones are true though not PC and they didnt make personal threats upon anyone.

[Reenk Roink]

Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." [Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, 9/28/05]

Yes...and I suppose the same would hold true for white babies as well...

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Yes...and I suppose the same would hold true for white babies as well...

Exactly. His mistake was mentioning black babies alone. He made a mistake but it also was taken out of context. Everyone on both sides of the isle who know him say they have no doubt hes not a racist.

[Vladimir]

Too many people confuse opinion with news. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, an opinion man, a talk show host, not a reporter (I thought everyone knew that). Howard Dean is the *ahem* spokesman for his party. Those in the "true" media are not immune from market forces. Theoretically they say what they believe their audience wants to hear so they can stay in business. No one can be truly objective.

[Xiahou]

Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05]

That was a good one... Right up there with his line to the effect of "The most beautiful thing about trees is what you do with them after you cut them down"

Here's another winner from Dean:

"I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called."

Maybe he had Bush confused with Clinton.

[Prodigal]

Fox news phone in poll - subject: "Are we talking or tom-a-hawking?"

[Geoffrey S]

A number of those I'd say were taken out of the original context, or at the very least were (as has been said here) meant in a tongue-in-cheek fashion and were leapt upon by politically correct pedants.

But they were funny.

[AntiochusIII]

Sadly this potentially funny thread has been degenerated into a few patrons proclaim the ultimate rightness of their political positions, and why their opponents are lame, not gay (Tolkien gay) enough to laugh, etc.

I laugh at the posts, a dry laugh.

[Lemur]

I agree with Antiochus. Another thread degenerates into the usual left-right hooey. You people need to get past dualism. All the cool kids are doing fractals, don't ya know.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

This thread started with two quotes from conservative talk show hosts, Silly us replied with qutoes from liberals in power who actually meant what they said. My apologies. No doubt both sides make outrageous statements. I cant help it if we have a sense of humor and you liberals dont.

PS Does anyone really think this thread ever had a chance at being humorous? I do find the conservative quotes quite funny. Wheres the humor from the left?

[Byzantine Prince]

Why is it Gawain that when a conservative makes an outrageous statement it is automatically considered tongue and cheek? I think I know the answer, but the rhetorical question stands.

the reason I think this is because conservativism is ridiculously outrageous to begin with so any hyperbole added to it is automatically funny, but this does not mean that the person making is somehow not agreeing with themselves when they say it. I am 100% sure they mean everything they say when they say it.

[Quietus]

Not as funny as any Baghdad Bob's quotes

But here's one from the links:

Chris Matthews: "What does it smell like over there [in Baghdad]? Do you sense fireworks?"
NBC’s Campbell Brown: "You do, Chris....On the street, you get the sense that something big is about to happen, something big and fairly ugly."
— Exchange on MSNBC’s Hardball January 28, just before Iraq’s first free elections.

and another:

Pat Robertson: "If [Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it." [Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, 8/22/05]

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Yes...and I suppose the same would hold true for white babies as well...

You do realize that he said that as a sarcastic response to someone who actually *did* say that, right? I saw the footage Nothing wrong with what he said, it's just that people are too stupid to know what he did say.

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for,"

Apparently Mr. Dean hates Democracy, Freedom, and America. Good job. If I was Bush, he'd have an all expenses paid trip to Club Gitmo!

EDIT: Edited for not being mean-ness

[Reenk Roink]

You do realize that he said that as a sarcastic response to someone who actually *did* say that, right? I saw the footage Nothing wrong with what he said, it's just that people are too stupid to know what he did say.

Yes, perhaps to you, there is nothing wrong with what he said...
Also, I am aware of the context of the remark, and I am also aware he called it "morally reprehensible" right after, but it was a retarded analogy nonetheless...

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Yes, perhaps to you, there is nothing wrong with what he said...
Also, I am aware of the context of the remark, and I am also aware he called it "morally reprehensible" right after, but it was a retarded analogy nonetheless...

As is comparing US Soldiers at Abu Gharib and Gitmo to Hitler's SS or the Soviet Gulags (that one won for stupidest comment, congrats Dick Durbin. First name fits you.)

EDIT: That wasn't a directional attack, it was intended for the real dick durbin not anyone at the forums, as one might assume by me quoting someone and saying that.

[Reenk Roink]

As is comparing US Soldiers at Abu Gharib and Gitmo to Hitler's SS or the Soviet Gulags (that one won for stupidest comment, congrats Dick Durbin. First name fits you.)

EDIT: That wasn't a directional attack, it was intended for the real dick durbin not anyone at the forums, as one might assume by me quoting someone and saying that.

Umm ok...

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Why is it Gawain that when a conservative makes an outrageous statement it is automatically considered tongue and cheek?

The conservatives I claimed did this are entertainers, Anyone who knows them knows this type of humor is their schtick.