“The following quotes come from Conservatives, and let me be clear.. By Conservatives I mean ‘I am not a liberal.. I hate those stupid granola crunchers’ Conservatives, not simply moderates who like to be ‘fair’. Feel free to look them and their writings up if you don’t believe me. I just wanted to prove that sometimes I do agree with Conservatives.” -Skippy
“I don’t think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them — hungry to bomb foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are constituencies, leaders may not be far behind.” -Scott McConnell, The American Conservative, February 14, 2005
“In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism [that] adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows better than anyone else what the country and world's needs, and has a special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best means to bring it about.” -Lew Rockwell, December 31, 2004
“I remember when conservatives favored restraint in foreign policy and wished to limit government power in order to protect civil liberties. Today’s young conservatives are Jacobins determined to use government power to impose their will at home and abroad . . . From whence came the brownshirt movement that slavishly adheres to the neocons’ agenda?” -Paul Craig Roberts, October 2004
“From the first days after 9/11, the Bush administration created a mythology that would spur reverence for both the president and the government. Bush wrapped himself in a flag drenched with the blood of Americans who died due to the failure of the federal government he commanded, and sadly the people bought it — and still continue to buy it.” -James Bovard, September 17, 2004
“The following quotes come from Conservatives, and let me be clear.. By Conservatives I mean ‘I am not a liberal.. I hate those stupid granola crunchers’ Conservatives, not simply moderates who like to be ‘fair’. Feel free to look them and their writings up if you don’t believe me. I just wanted to prove that sometimes I do agree with Conservatives.” -Skippy
“I don’t think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them — hungry to bomb foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are constituencies, leaders may not be far behind.” -Scott McConnell, The American Conservative, February 14, 2005
“In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism [that] adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows better than anyone else what the country and world's needs, and has a special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best means to bring it about.” -Lew Rockwell, December 31, 2004
“I remember when conservatives favored restraint in foreign policy and wished to limit government power in order to protect civil liberties. Today’s young conservatives are Jacobins determined to use government power to impose their will at home and abroad . . . From whence came the brownshirt movement that slavishly adheres to the neocons’ agenda?” -Paul Craig Roberts, October 2004
“From the first days after 9/11, the Bush administration created a mythology that would spur reverence for both the president and the government. Bush wrapped himself in a flag drenched with the blood of Americans who died due to the failure of the federal government he commanded, and sadly the people bought it — and still continue to buy it.” -James Bovard, September 17, 2004
“The following quotes come from Conservatives, and let me be clear.. By Conservatives I mean ‘I am not a liberal.. I hate those stupid granola crunchers’ Conservatives, not simply moderates who like to be ‘fair’. Feel free to look them and their writings up if you don’t believe me. I just wanted to prove that sometimes I do agree with Conservatives.” -Skippy
“I don’t think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them — hungry to bomb foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are constituencies, leaders may not be far behind.” -Scott McConnell, The American Conservative, February 14, 2005
“In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism [that] adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows better than anyone else what the country and world's needs, and has a special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best means to bring it about.” -Lew Rockwell, December 31, 2004
“I remember when conservatives favored restraint in foreign policy and wished to limit government power in order to protect civil liberties. Today’s young conservatives are Jacobins determined to use government power to impose their will at home and abroad . . . From whence came the brownshirt movement that slavishly adheres to the neocons’ agenda?” -Paul Craig Roberts, October 2004
“From the first days after 9/11, the Bush administration created a mythology that would spur reverence for both the president and the government. Bush wrapped himself in a flag drenched with the blood of Americans who died due to the failure of the federal government he commanded, and sadly the people bought it — and still continue to buy it.” -James Bovard, September 17, 2004
“The following quotes come from Conservatives, and let me be clear.. By Conservatives I mean ‘I am not a liberal.. I hate those stupid granola crunchers’ Conservatives, not simply moderates who like to be ‘fair’. Feel free to look them and their writings up if you don’t believe me. I just wanted to prove that sometimes I do agree with Conservatives.” -Skippy
“I don’t think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but there is certainly now a constituency for them — hungry to bomb foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are constituencies, leaders may not be far behind.” -Scott McConnell, The American Conservative, February 14, 2005
“In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism [that] adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows better than anyone else what the country and world's needs, and has a special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best means to bring it about.” -Lew Rockwell, December 31, 2004
“I remember when conservatives favored restraint in foreign policy and wished to limit government power in order to protect civil liberties. Today’s young conservatives are Jacobins determined to use government power to impose their will at home and abroad . . . From whence came the brownshirt movement that slavishly adheres to the neocons’ agenda?” -Paul Craig Roberts, October 2004
“From the first days after 9/11, the Bush administration created a mythology that would spur reverence for both the president and the government. Bush wrapped himself in a flag drenched with the blood of Americans who died due to the failure of the federal government he commanded, and sadly the people bought it — and still continue to buy it.” -James Bovard, September 17, 2004
“Submitted for your approval, some highlights from February.” -Skippy
“This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table.” -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005
“Now, if you're a worker who earns 35 dollars a year over your lifetime, and this system were in effect where you could put 4 percent of your payroll taxes in a personal account, and you start at age 20, by the time you retire, your personal account would grow to $250,000. That's compounding rate of interest.” -George ‘Dubya’ Bush , Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb. 10, 2005
“That is apparently very, very compounding interest..” -Skippy
“DUBYA: Andrew Biggs is with us. He is the Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy of the Social Security Administration, Washington, D.C. In other words, he is an expert on the subject. Andrew, step forth. Let the people of Arkansas -- no, sit forth -- let the people of Arkansas -- DR. BIGGS: Thanks very much. DUBYA: Tell them whether or not we got a problem or not, from your perspective. DR. BIGGS: Put simply, we do, in fact, have a problem. DUBYA: By the way, this guy -- PhD. See, I was a C student. He's a PhD, so he's probably got a little more credibility. I do think it's interesting and should be heartening for all C students out there, notice who's the President and who's the advisor. All right, Andrew, get going. Andrew's got a good sense of humor.“ -George ‘Dubya’ Bush , Little Rock, Arkansas, Feb. 4, 2005
“Oh George, It’s so cute when you go on those little power trips and belittle your advisors. And we come down to the remaining nations of the Coalition of the Willing I guess..” -Skippy
“The United States and the U.S. stand together in support of the Iraqi people and the new Iraqi government, which will soon come into action.” -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005
Quotes of the Morning: You Need an 'Ann' to Spell 'Gannon'
"Likewise, many of the same leftist blogs that castigate the religious right for intolerance didn't hesitate to reveal the sexual peculiarities of White House correspondent/sympathizer James Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon." -FOX News, February 23, 2005 “I didn’t realize that prostitution was a ‘sexual peculiarity’. I always kind of thought that it was just a criminal offense.” -Skippy
“The heretofore-unknown Jeff Gannon of the heretofore-unknown ‘Talon News’ service was caught red-handed asking friendly questions at a White House press briefing. Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a Web site where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis? Liberals keep rolling out a scrolling series of attacks on Gannon for their Two Minutes Hate, but all their other charges against him fall apart after three seconds of scrutiny. Gannon's only offense is that he may be gay.” -Ann Coulter, February 23, 2005
“Actually Ann, Gannon’s offense isn’t that he may be gay. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. His offense it that he was a prostitute who was still advertising his services on web sites after he gained access to the White House for several years using a ‘day pass’ that isn’t supposed to be able to be used like that. He then seems to have acted as a mouthpiece for the administration while pretending to be an actual journalist and has been linked to the Valerie Plame investigation. The fact that he is a gay or bisexual male who seems to have written several negative articles about gays is simply icing on the cake.” -Skippy
“Gannon didn't write about gays. No ‘hypocrisy’ is being exposed. Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.” -Ann Coulter, February 23, 2005
“Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ann Coulter. Beloved mouthpiece of the far right. People actually listen to her.” -Skippy
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” -James Beard
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do. -Ex-Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, December 3, 2004
“If Congress approves [the president's FY2006 budget], the number of domestic food safety inspections made next year would fall by 5%, foreign drug plant inspections would drop 5.8% and checks on the nation's blood banks would be cut 4.7%, compared with estimated 2005 inspections.” -USA Today, February 14, 2005
“Would someone explain to me again how attacking Iraq and spending the hundreds of billions or so that we’re spending there was supposed to make us more secure against terrorists?” -Skippy
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.” -Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
“Attorneys for the Justice Department appeared before a federal judge in Washington this month and asked him to dismiss a lawsuit over the detention of a U.S. citizen, basing their request not merely on secret evidence but also on secret legal arguments. The government contends that the legal theory by which it would defend its behavior should be immune from debate in court. This position is alien to the history and premise of Anglo-American jurisprudence, which assumes that opposing lawyers will challenge one another's arguments.” -Washington Post, February 21, 2005 “Whoa.. Secret legal arguments? They have an interpretation of law that they feel needs to be kept from the public? Does anyone else feel a cold shiver run down their spine when they read that? Secret evidence I could almost understand. I can see that there might be facts that might need to be kept from the general public, but when an interpretation of public law is considered too controversial for the public to hear about I get nervous.” -Skippy
“A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.” -Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
“The people's good is the highest law.” -Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Legibus
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.” -Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965)
“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.” -Sir John Powell
“Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.” -William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” -H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.” -Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Quotes of the Morning: Fear and Loathing on a Monday
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" -Hunter S. Thompson
“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.” -Hunter S. Thompson
“If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix...” -Hunter S. Thompson
“Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’ has committed suicide.” -MSNBC, February 21, 2005
"I'm pleased to announce my decision to nominate Ambassador John Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence . . . John brings a unique set of skills to these challenges." -George W. Bush, February 17, 2005
“Among his more recent assignments, Mr. Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras (1981-85)." -Biography of John D. Negroponte “Negroponte's nomination for the U.N. post was confirmed by the Senate in September 2001, but that confirmation didn't come easy. It was delayed a half-year mostly because of criticism of his record as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. In Honduras, Negroponte played a prominent role in assisting the Contras in Nicaragua in their war with the left-wing Sandinista government, which was aligned with Cuba and the Soviet Union. For weeks before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Negroponte was questioned by staff members on whether he had acquiesced to human rights abuses by a Honduran death squad funded and partly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency.” -Associated Press, April 20, 2004
“Intelligence Battalion 3-16 was also created in the early 1980s with the help of the CIA. Together with the DNI, Battalion 3-16 is blamed for the repression, capture, interrogation and disappearance of about 180 people, generally popular movement leaders.” -U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Honduras, October 14, 1998
“Battalion 3-16 counter-terrorist tactics included torture, rape, assassination against persons thought to be involved in support of Salvadoran guerrillas or the Honduran leftist movement. Information available to the United States Government in the 1980s indicated that named individuals were abducted and killed by Battalion 3-16 and the FUSEP Special Unit.” -CIA Working Group Stipulations, September 13, 2001
“In September 1983, Ambassador Negroponte requested additional analytical assistance from the U.S. Government about the Olancho guerrilla movement, including U.S. participation in the debriefing of deserters and captives.” -Stipulations From the CIA Inspector General's Office, September 13, 2001
"I think it is important to stress there was no effort on the part of myself or others serving the U.S. Government at the time to stifle reporting about human rights in Honduras, to cover up any credible evidence of human rights abuses which came to our attention, or to misrepresent the general picture with respect to the human rights situation in the country." -John Negroponte, September 13, 2001
“A former commander of Battalion 316, General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, might have made an informative witness at Negroponte's confirmation hearing, but although he has lived in Florida for several years, he is suddenly unavailable. He left the United States in February after his residence visa was canceled . . . When an American reporter asked about the notorious battalion, he demurred, saying he wanted no more ‘problems with the United States’ because ‘your country is too powerful.’" -Stephen Kinzer, September 20, 2001
“I did a lot in the area of quiet diplomacy. I think that is acknowledged and I think that is demonstrable in the record." -John Negroponte, September 13, 2001
“Ah yes.. John Negroponte. Along with Alberto ‘Geneva Conventions? We Don’t Need No Stinking Geneva Conventions’ Gonzales these two will be the bookends of our proud policies of torture and civil rights violations. Every time that I think that it couldn’t get any more comically wrong, they seem to go out of their way to show me I’m mistaken. I’m pretty sure that by next week Bush will be nominating Oliver North or G. Gordon Liddy for something…” -Skippy
“Benefit cuts is an interesting word. Benefits are scheduled to grow at a certain rate, and one of the suggestions, for example ... was [that] they grow, but not at a rate as fast as projected. You can call it anything you want. I would call it an adjustment to reality.” -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, February 15, 2005
'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” -Unidentified White House official, quoted by Ron Suskind in the New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated . . . Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.” -Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality, 1971
“To give credit where credit is due.. All of the quotes this morning were lifted from Billmon at billmon.org. Goddess I love the blogs. They reduce my work in finding the Quotes immensely.” -Skippy
“Ibrahim Jaafari [the likely new Iraqi Prime Minister] . . . is a religious Shiite who commands popular support unmatched by any of his competitors. When talks were under way last February over the drafting the fundamental law which serves as Iraq's interim Constitution, Jaafari was among those leading the camp who favored Islam as the only source of legislation.” -Daily Star, January 29, 2005
"The policy of the American government is to stand for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity -- the rule of law, the limits on the power of the state, free speech, freedom of worship, equal justice, respect for women, religious and ethnic tolerance, and protections for private property. That is what we believe and we're not going to change." -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, March 12, 2004
"We shouldn't have anything that conflicts with Islam. Islam is the religion of the majority, so it should be the official religion of the state." -Da'wa Party leader Ibrahim Jaafari, February 7, 2005
"Successful societies guarantee religious liberty -- the right to serve and honor God without fear of persecution." -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, March 12, 2004
“Although [Jaafari] also says he is for women's rights and the right of a woman to be a professional and to hold high political office, many in his party want women's testimony to be worth half that of a man's and want girls to inherit half what their brothers do.” -Juan Cole, February 16, 2005
"The advance of women's rights and the advance of liberty are ultimately inseparable." -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, March 12, 2004
“[Jaafari's] top aide, Adnan Ali al-Kadhimi, said there should be a council that would review laws to make sure they don't contradict Islam. But it would not be a council of clerics with ultimate say over the laws, like in Iran, he said; rather it would be an advisory group of religious and secular legal experts.” -Boston Globe, February 15, 2005
"No democracy can allow religious people to impose their own view of perfection on others, because this invites cruelty and arrogance that are foreign to every faith." -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, June 29, 2004
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." -Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." -Albert Einstein
"I don't pretend to understand the universe--it's much bigger than I am." -Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race." -Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein
"I’ve a constitutional responsibility to nominate well-qualified men and women for the federal courts – I have done so.” -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, February 14, 2005
"Nominations Sent to the Senate…Thomas B. Griffith, of Utah, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit” -White House Press Release, February 14, 2005
"Thomas B. Griffith, President Bush’s nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington, has been practicing law in Utah without a state law license for the past four years, according to Utah state officials.” -Washington Post, June 21, 2004 “What? Unqualified people getting work at the White House due to a faulty or non-existent vetting process? Hmm… Where have I heard of something like that recently?” -Skippy
“WOLF BLITZER: Because one of the things, as you know, that were said is that you had some sexually explicit Web sites that you were working on. I don't understand what that is, but maybe you could explain that. JEFF GANNON: Well, several years ago, before I came to Washington, I had registered various domain names for a private client. I was doing Web site development. Those sites were never hosted. There's -- nothing ever went up on them. And the client went on to do something else.” -CNN, February 10, 2005 “Um… No.” -Skippy
“Guckert insisted his only involvement with the sex sites was as a software consultant and, he added: "Those sites were never hosted. There's -- nothing ever went up on them," as he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Feb. 10. In an interview posted Feb. 11 with Editor & Publisher magazine, Guckert made the same claim: "They were done through a private company [Bedrock Corp.] I was involved with doing Web site development about five years ago. The sites were never hosted, and nothing was ever posted to the sites." On Monday, John Aravosis posted on his liberal site AmericaBlog.com detailed evidence indicating that not only was Guckert personally involved with the Web sites, but he was also offering his escort services for $200 an hour, or $1,200 a weekend. Aravosis received on-the-record confirmation, complete with five invoices paid by Delaware's Bedrock Corp., from the person Guckert hired to build the gay Web site USMCPT.com, which features X-rated photos. The Web designer also forwarded to Aravosis dozens of unused photos that Guckert sent him when the site was being built. "Each photo looks remarkably like Jeff Gannon," Aravosis writes. AmericaBlog also details scores of other gay escort sites featuring photos and personal profiles of Guckert, such as MaleCorps.com, WorkingBoys.net, and MeetLocalMen.com. Guckert's first site remained live until May 8, 2003, one month after he began covering the White House for Talon. According to Aravosis' research, Guckert's escort profile on WorkingBoys.net was still active as of Monday. Aravosis says he contacted Guckert for comment for the story but received none....” -Salon, February 14, 2005
“Jeff Gannon aka Jim Guckert, the prostitute who apparently somehow made it through the vetting process for reporters at the White House with fake credentials and got involved with the Valerie Plame case when someone leaked him classified information. Hmm.. Methinks we have not heard the last of this man.” -Skippy
“Fred Garvin: [entering] Mrs. Potter? Mrs. Potter: Yes.. that's me. Fred Garvin: The same Mrs. Potter who's Vice-President, in charge of loans for the Franklin National Bank in Chicago. Mrs. Potter: Yeah, that's me. Fred Garvin: Here, this is for you. Mrs. Potter: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Fred Garvin: May I come in? Mrs. Potter: What for? Fred Garvin: Well, ma'am, you see, when a VP like yourself comes to Milain to do business, it's customary for the company to send a gal up to the room, compliments of Great Lakes Feed & Grain. And, well.. since you're a gal, the company sent me - Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute. [Fred stares at the camera as the title card appears ] Mrs. Potter: Uh.. I don't, I don't think you understand, Fred. I'm not that kind of girl.. Fred Garvin: Oh, let me reassure you, ma'am. I can assure you professional hygiene, discretion and animal gratification. Mrs. Potter: I have never had to pay for that in my whole life. Fred Garvin: Well, don't worry about it. Great Lakes Feed & Grain is picking up the tab. You get me for the whole night! Mrs. Potter: Hey, uh.. Fred Garvin: Hey is for horses, young lady. No ifs, ands or buts about it - you're spending the night with Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute. [Fred stares at the camera as the title card appears] Well, now, I have a work order here which specifies that I am to roger you roundly 'til 6:15 tomorrow morning. Mrs. Potter: Now, wait a minute.. wait a minute. Don't I get dome say in this? I mean, maybe I want some sleep. Maybe I don't want to be rogered roundly. Fred Garvin: Ma'am, you're dealing here with a fully qualified male strumpet. I service the entire quad cities area - Moline, Rock Island, Davenport and Bettendorf. Why don't you give it a whirl? What have you got to lose? Mrs. Potter: [walks aside to think to herself] What do I have to lose? No one's ever gonna know.. and I'm not gonna see Paul for another couple of weeks. Sure, Fred's not the most attractive guy in the world.. but if he makes a living at this, he must be doing something right. [finished thinking] Okay, Mr. Garvin. I'll try it.” -Saturday Night Live
“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? “ -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
“Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.” -Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” -Lynda Barry
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” -Jeanne Moreau
“Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“This world I like We architects of life” -Yes, It Can Happen
“Stomping along on this big Phillip Johnson Is delay just wasting my time Looking across at Richard Rogers Scheming dreams to blow both their minds
It’s difficult you see To give up baby To leave a job When you know the money’s from day to day
All the majesty of a city landscape All the soaring days in our lives All the concrete dreams in my mind’s eye All the joy I see thru these architect’s eyes” -David Bowie, Thru These Architect’s Eyes “It is official. After God only knows how many years of goofing around and wasting time, I am officially an architect. Huzzah!” -Jim Kinney
“MR. TID: Gentlemen, we have two basic suggestions for the design of this architectural block, the residential block, and I thought it best that the architects themselves came in to explain the advantages of both designs. (knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock) That must be the first architect now. Ah, yes. It's Mr. Wiggin of Ironside and Malone. MR. WIGGIN: Good morning, gentlemen. Uh, this is a twelve-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with all the advantages of modern design. Uhh, the tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large contai-- CITY GENT #1: Excuse me. MR. WIGGIN: Hmm? CITY GENT #1: Uh, did you say 'knives'? MR. WIGGIN: Uh, rotating knives. Yes. CITY GENT #2: Are you, uh, proposing to slaughter our tenants? MR. WIGGIN: Does that not fit in with your plans? CITY GENT #1: No, it does not. Uh, we-- we wanted a... simple... block of flats. MR. WIGGIN: Ahh, I see. I hadn't, uh, correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants. CITY GENT #: Huh huh. MR. WIGGIN: You see, I mainly design slaughter houses. CITY GENT #1: Yes. Pity. MR. WIGGIN: Mind you, this is a real beaut. I mean, none of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows inconveniencing passers-by with this one. I mean, my life has been building up to this. CITY GENT #2: Yes, and well done, huh, but we did want a block of flats. MR. WIGGIN: Well, may I ask you to reconsider? I mean, you wouldn't regret it. Think of the tourist trade. CITY GENT #1: No, no, it's-- it's just that we wanted a block of flats and not an abattoir. MR. WIGGIN: Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement! You whining, hypocritical toadies, with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding Masonic secret handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards! Well, I wouldn't become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking knees and begged me! CITY GENT #2: Well, we're sorry you feel like that, but we, um, did... want... a block of flats. Nice, though, the abattoir is.” -Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Quotes of the Morning: Lies, Damn Lies and Jeff Gannon
"Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims -- and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year." -George ‘Dubya’ Bush, February 2, 2005
"W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.” -USA Today, February 8, 2005
“Jeff Gannon A Voice of the New Media The voice goes silent. Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life. Thank you to all those who supported me.” -JeffGannon.com, February 9, 2005
“Today on Blitzer's pathetic interview, whiny JD Guckert claimed that people (bad evil liberals) had followed him to church. Anything's possible, I suppose, but his real name was first revealed to the world Monday night at 11:54pm, after the week's prime churchgoing day was long over. And, Guckert himself declared: ‘I'm a two-holiday Christian and I usually vote Republican because they most often support conservative positions.’ Now, we could imagine that he's Catholic and one of those two holidays is Ash Wednesday, but Ash Wednesday happened after he announced that he quit, so, it's hard to imagine that people following him to church after he quit was the reason he quit... And, to NPR he claimed: FOLKENFLIK: It's hard to check what Gannon's real interests might be because he doesn't write under his real name. Monday, before his resignation, when Gannon spoke to NPR he said his family had been harassed ever since that press conference. ‘That press conference’ refers to the Bush conference from a couple weeks ago. Since, as he told Wolf, when he says ‘family’ he means mother, brother, and sister-in-law, one wonders how all these evil people found them when, you know, NOBODY KNEW HIS REAL NAME. Gosh journalisming is shur hard.” -Atrios (Duncan Black), Eschaton, February 10, 2005
“In the past year: * GOPUSA.com, a Web site run by Bobby Eberle, a Houston engineer with no previous journalism experience, scored an interview with President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove.” -USA Today, December 30, 2003 “Bobby Eberle is not only the CEO of GOPUSA, but also of Talon News where Mr. Gannon was employed. Now he is linked to Karl Rove. This gets more and more interesting (especially with yesterday’s revelation about the Valerie Plame inquiry). Once again, thanks to the blogs (especially AmericaBlog) for keeping track of this fascinating story.” -Skippy
"Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines. And Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
-“Jeff Gannon” at White House Press Gaggle, January 26, 2005
“Who is this brave man, Jeff Gannon? How did he come by the courage to ask bold questions like the one above to the White House? And, more importantly, why did I put his name in quotation marks? Well, Mr. Gannon is a reporter for Talon News. A fearless (and hairless) defender of Truth, Justice, and Republican Ideals. He deals with important people all of the time.”
-Skippy
“Sean spends a moment with Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief for Talon News.com. Jeff talks about his daily meetings with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.”
-Program notes, Sean Hannity’s radio show, February 10, 2004
“Mr. Gannon is obviously well placed and connected, but who is Jeff Gannon?”
-Skippy
“I've been a preppie, a yuppie, blue-collar, green-collar and white-collar. I've served in the military, graduated from college, taught in the public school system, was a union truck driver, a management consultant, a fitness instructor and an entrepreneur. I'm a two-holiday Christian and I usually vote Republican because they most often support conservative positions.”
-“Jeff Gannon”, at ConservativeGuy.com
“Seems he can’t hold a job. Strong credentials for a White House reporter? Mmm.. Not so much. In fact, it turns out that his name isn’t even really ‘Jeff Gannon’. So, honestly, who is ‘Jeff Gannon’?”
-Skippy
“For those out there that still have questions about me and don't think I should be able to be a journalist, here's what you need to know: I'm everything people on the Left seem to despise. I'm a man who is white, politically conservative, a gun-owner, an SUV driver and I've voted for Republicans. I'm pro-American, pro-military, pro-democracy, pro-capitalism, pro-free speech, anti-tax and anti-big government. Most importantly, I'm a Christian. Not only by birth, but by rebirth through the blood of Jesus Christ.”
-“Jeff Gannon” at JeffGanon.com
“Well, we’re no closer to that answer, but Mr. Gannon, despite being a pseudonym and working for a ‘not ready for prime time’ news agency, has been able to get into White House press briefings since 2003 (doesn’t ANYONE at the White House do background checks anymore?). He also seems to have been well connected in Washington. Anyone remember that little Valerie Plame investigation?”
-Skippy
“White House-credentialed fake news reporter ‘Jeff Gannon’ from fake news agency ‘Talon News’ was cited by the Washington Post as having the only access to an internal CIA memo that named Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Gannon, in a question posed to Wilson in an October 2003 interview, referred to the memo (to which no other news outlet had access, according to the Post). Gannon subsequently has been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury looking into the Plame outing.”
-DailyKos, January 30, 2005
“Wow.. Now THAT is well connected. It appears that Mr. Gannon appeared fully formed, like Athena from Zeus’s forehead, in 2002. Before that he seems (based on several pictures, some connections through web-site ownership and a comment on his old frat’s web page) to have been a guy named Jim ‘JD’ Guckert. Can you really blame him for using a pseudonym? I think that he wanted something that rhymed with ‘cannon’. Mr. Gannon, or Guckert, has been a busy man, with numerous apparent connections to various web-based enterprises. Some of them are rather interesting. You see, all of Jeff/Jim’s web pages were registered through the Bedrock Corp. of Wilmington, which uses Mr. Guckert as a contact person. What names were registered by this particular company? I’m glad you asked. (Ok, I know you didn’t ask, but work with me here).:
Conservativeguy.com Conservative-guy.com Conservativelegal.com Exposejessejackson.com Jeffgannon.com Theconservativeguy.com Theconservativelegal.com The-conservative-guy.com conservative-guy.com Hotmilitarystud.com Militaryescorts.com Militaryescortsm4m.com
Ok.. the first several are ok, but at the end? I’m not sure I want to go there, especially since I have seen The Picture on his old AOL page. I refuse to show it here, since I send this out from my work e-mail, but I have seen The Picture. It makes The Ring look like amateur hour. It is terrifying. It is horrifying. It is Jim/Jeff in his underwear. They are briefs. The horror. The horror. This brings us to our next quote like lambs to Rep. Slaughter.”
-Skippy
“Dear Mr. President: In light of the mounting evidence that your Administration has, on several occasions, paid members of the media to advocate in favor of Administration policies, I feel compelled to ask you to address a matter brought to my attention by the Niagara Falls Reporter (article attached), a local newspaper in my district, regarding James ‘JD’ Guckert (AKA Jeff Gannon) of Talon News. According to several credible reports, ‘Mr. Gannon’ has been repeatedly credentialed as a member of the White House press corps by your office and has been regularly called upon in White House press briefings by your Press Secretary Scott McClellan, despite the fact evidence shows that ‘Mr. Gannon’ is a Republican political operative, uses a false name, has phony or questionable journalistic credentials, is known for plagiarizing much of the ‘news’ he reports, and according to several web reports, may have ties to the promotion of the prostitution of military personnel. “
-Letter from Representative Louise Slaughter to George ‘Dubya’ Bush, February 9, 2005
“Now ask yourself… Why did this man get into Press Briefings again? I’d like to thank all of the blogs out there that made today’s quotes possible (and with special thanks to the letters ‘B’ and ‘S’. Kos, Corrente, World O’ Crap, Atrios, God bless you, and God bless America, where even a pseudonym can become rich and famous. I am, and always will be.. Skippy”
-Skippy
“STEPHANOPOULOS: Now you're a doctor. Do you believe that tears and sweat can transmit HIV?
FRIST: I don't know. I can tell you --
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don’t know?
FRIST: I can tell you things like, like --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Wait. Let me stop you there. You don't know that, you believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit AIDS?
FRIST: Yeah, no, I can tell you that HIV is not very transmissible as an element, like compared to smallpox, compared to the flu, it's not.
But, the first line -- because I think it's dangerous to show that, and then sort of walk away...”
-Senator (Dr.) Bill Frist, on This Week, December, 2004
“Ok.. So Dr. Bill Frist, who is leading several programs to help stop the spread of AIDS, is unwilling to even admit that tears and sweat, to the best of knowledge of the scientific community (and they have checked this stuff quite a bit), cannot spread AIDS. I would like to repeat. He is a doctor.”
-Skippy
“Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), a new member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was at last week's meeting on a bill restricting class-action suits. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘I immediately thought about slicone breast implants and the legal wrangling and the class-action suits off that. And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about slicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. That is what the ultimate science shows...In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.’"
-Washington Post, February 7, 2004
“Sometimes you just can’t make a snarky comment to top reality, but I’ll try… Isn’t it somewhat odd that the far Right (of which Senator Coburn is a proud member) don’t believe in global warming, but the idea that a set of fake tits could improve your health is one that they can swallow with no problem at all? Just asking. I wonder if Senator Coburn has bought a set for his wife, you know, for her health..”
-Skippy
"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. ... Our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy." -Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal, August 12, 1945
"When small men cast long shadows, it is a sign that the sun is setting." -Venita Craven
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." -Albert Einstein
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today." -Teddy Roosevelt, 1906
"But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." -John Quincy Adams, speaking of America in 1821
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Douglass.
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." -Ayn Rand - The Nature of Government
“In Omaha on Friday, a divorced single mother named Mary Mornin tells the president, ‘I have one child, Robbie, who is mentally challenged, and I have two daughters.’ ‘Fantastic,’ the president exclaims, and he tells her she has ‘the hardest job in America, being a single mom.’ Later, the 57-year old Mornin tells Bush that she works three jobs, which the president deems ’uniquely American’ and ‘fantastic.’ He asks her if she gets any sleep.”
-Washington Post, February 6, 2005
“Ok, the ‘fantastic’ thing when talking about a mentally challenged child I’ll let fly.. but the ‘uniquely American’ bit? Do we really want single mothers working three jobs to be a uniquely American thing? And do you really think that it’s fantastic??”
-Skippy
“Bush will propose spending $2.5 trillion in the budget year that begins Oct. 1. For the current year, he is estimating the budget deficit will reach a record $427 billion. That compares with last year’s $412 billion deficit and is the third straight year the Bush administration will have set, in dollar terms, a deficit high.
[…] The five-year projections in the budget will show the deficit declining to about $230 billion in 2009, when a new president takes office.
Those projections do not take into account some big-ticket items: the military costs incurred in Iraq and Afghanistan, the price of making Bush’s first term tax cuts permanent, or the transition costs for his No. 1 domestic priority, overhauling Social Security.”
-Associated Press, February 7, 2005
“So the decline in the deficit won’t include any of the more expensive items that Bush is pushing to have. Great.”
-Skippy
"Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling . . . You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
-Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, USMC, February 1, 2005
"’While I understand that some people may take issue with the comments made by him, I also know he intended to reflect the unfortunate and harsh realities of war,’ [Marine Corp Commandant Mike] Hagee said. ‘Lt. Gen. Mattis often speaks with a great deal of candor.’ Hagee also praised Mattis, calling him ‘one of this country's bravest and most experienced military leaders.’"
Associated Press, February 3, 2005
“Gen. Corman: Walt Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers this country has ever produced. He was brilliant and outstanding in every way. And he was a good man, too. A humanitarian man, a man of wit, of humor. He joined the Special Forces. But after that his ideas, his methods, became . . . unsound.
You see Willard, in this war, things get confused out there: power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity. Out there with these natives it must be a temptation to be god. Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has a breaking point. You and I have. Walter Kurtz has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane.
Willard: Yes sir, very much so sir. Obviously insane.”
-Apocalypse Now
Quotes of the Morning: Those Who Do Not Study History...
“Just to be clear… This is just a little romp through history. I’m not saying that anyone ‘is’ anything by comparing statements. Bush is NOT the leader of Germany in the 1940s.”
-Skippy “The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas . . . only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.”
-Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
“President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market . . . The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support — contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.”
-Washington Post, Social Security Push to Tap the GOP Faithful, January 14, 2005
“The great masses of the people . . . more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others . . . Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick —a fact which all the great lie-virtuosi and lying-clubs in this world know only too well and also make the most treacherous use of.”
-Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
“Eichmann had one more reason why this day of the conference had become unforgettable. Although he already did his best to help in the Final Solution, he still harbored some doubts about ‘such a bloody solution through violence,’ and these doubts were now dispelled. ‘Here now, during this conference, the most prominent people had spoken: the popes of the Third Reich.’ Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that it was not only Hitler, not only Heydrich or the sphinx Muller, not only the SS or the party, it was the elite of the good old civil services who vied and fought with each other for the honor of being the first in these ‘bloody’ matters.”
-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 1963
“With an estimated price tag of $40 million, the three-day celebration that is President Bush's second inauguration will be the most expensive ever. The lavish dinners, parties and fireworks began on Tuesday and will continue through his swearing-in on Thursday, followed by a parade and nine official inaugural balls . . . The cost will be paid by individual and corporate donations, while the city of Washington is being asked to pay for an estimated $17 million in security costs.”
-BBC News, January 19, 2005
“Albert Speer, in charge of armament production, drew up a memorandum to Hitler on January 20 — the twelfth anniversary of Hitler's coming to power — pointing out the significance of the loss of Silesia. 'The war is lost,' his report began, and he went on in his cool and objective manner to explain why . . .
The Fuehrer, Guderian later related, glanced at Speer's report, read the first sentence and then ordered it filed away in his safe. He refused to see Speer alone, saying to Guderian: ‘He always has something unpleasant to say to me. I can't bear that.’"
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1959
“Mr. Powell's bleak assessment, less than three weeks before Iraqis are due to elect a parliament, reflects what advisers close to the administration and former officials describe as an understanding in the State Department and Pentagon of the depth of the crisis. But, they say, this is not a view accepted by President George W. Bush . . .
According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell for his view on the progress of the war. ‘We're losing,’ Mr Powell was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of state to leave.”
-Financial Times. Powell gives bleak assessment of Iraq security problems, January 12, 2005
“Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me.”
-Groundhog Day
“Let it never be said that I won’t admit when I’m wrong. When Bush wanted to invade Iraq to show that he was serious about Democracy, I doubted. Well, I doubt no more. Yesterday multiparty democracy came to Nepal.”
-Skippy
“For the second time in three years, Nepal's king has dismissed the government and declared a state of emergency, plunging the conflict-plagued Himalayan nation into further crisis.
Professing himself a champion of multiparty democracy, King Gyanendra announced on state-run television today that he had sacked the country's multiparty government, including the same prime minister he had dismissed in October 2002, then later reinstated. He said he would form a new government under his ‘chairmanship.’”
-New York Times, February 1, 2005
“Nepal! N-E-P-A-L! Viva Nepal! Viva Nepal!”
-Eddie Murphy, The Golden Child
“See, the king overthrew the government... again… because he supports democracy. He had to burn the village to save it apparently. I think that his devotion to democracy shows that he can be as strong an ally to the United States as our good friend Pakistan is. Sniff.. It makes you proud doesn’t it? There’s good news in other places too..”
-Skippy
“United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.
According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.
The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here.”
-New York Times, September 4, 1967
“Oops.. A second mistake. That was Vietnam in 1967. My bad.”
-Skippy
“I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?...”
-Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day
“Earlier today, conservative firebrand and bestselling author Ann Coulter agreed to participate in the 32nd annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation’s largest gathering of grassroots conservative leaders and activists, said CPAC Director Stacie Rumenap. ‘For years, Ann’s participation in CPAC has been the highlight for thousands of conservative grassroots activists,’ said Rumenap. ‘Her incendiary opinions on issues of the day resonate with our attendees, who always report that the CPAC experience would not be the same without an opportunity to be enlightened by the inimitable Miss Coulter.’"
-American Conservative Union, January 11, 2005
“Ann Coulter.. Darling of the conservative movement. She ‘resonates’ with them. Here are a few of her prouder moments, including her very recent appearance on Canadian television.”
-Skippy
“Coulter: ‘Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?’
McKeown interrupts: ‘Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam.’
Coulter: ‘I don't think that's right.’
McKeown: ‘Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.’
Coulter (looking desperate): ‘Indochina?’
McKeown: ‘Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No.’
Coulter: ‘I think you're wrong.’
McKeown: ‘No, took a pass on Vietnam.’
Coulter: ‘I think you're wrong.’
McKeown: ‘No, Australia was there, not Canada.’
Coulter: ‘I think Canada sent troops.’
McKeown: ‘No.’
Coulter: ‘Well. I'll get back to you on that.’"
-Ann Coulter on ‘The Fifth Column’ on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, January 27, 2005
"We should invade their [Muslim’s] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
-Ann Coulter, September 13, 2001
"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
-Ann Coulter, January 2002
"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy."
-Ann Coulter, July 3, 2002
COULTER: I take the biblical idea. God gave us the earth.
PETER FENN (Democratic strategist): Oh, OK.
COULTER: We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
FENN: This is a great idea.
COULTER: God says, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.’
FENN: Terrific. We're Americans, so we should consume as much of the earth's resources...
COULTER: Yes! Yes.
FENN: ... as fast as we possibly can.
COULTER: As opposed to living like the Indians.
-Ann Coulter clip shown on Hannity and Colmes, June 22, 2001
“Yep. Ann thinks God told us to rape the earth. As you might suspect, Ann is not a feminist.”
-Skippy
"Cheney is my ideal man. Because he's solid. He's funny. He's very handsome. He was a football player. People don't think about him as the glamour type because he's a serious person, he wears glasses, he's lost his hair. But he's a very handsome man. And you cannot imagine him losing his temper, which I find extremely sexy. Men who get upset and lose their tempers and claim to be sensitive males: talk about girly boys. No, there's a reason hurricanes are named after women and homosexual men, it's one of our little methods of social control. We're supposed to fly off the handle.
-Ann Coulter, interview in the New York Observer, August 20, 2002
"I love Texas Republicans! They're these beautiful women, they're so great-looking, they're completely loaded. They're dripping in this gorgeous jewelry, they're really funny and sarcastic and smart. Americans are so cool, and they're such parochial idiots here in New York."
-Ann Coulter, interview in the New York Observer, August 20, 2002
“You see, Ann is a conservative who speaks to the heartland of America. She understands the everyday, hard-working people of this country and can empathize with their plight. That is why she is so loved by the conservative movement.”
-Skippy
“LAMB: Where did you write the book?
COULTER: In my apartment.
LAMB: In what part of the world?
COULTER: Mostly in New York, though some in Washington. I tried originally writing it from L.A., Vail and Aspen, and I wasn't getting much work done.”
-Ann Coulter Interview, August 11, 2002
