Looking back at the idiocy: Part I
I'm not sure how they managed to just limit it to 25:
25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes of 2005
I can't choose just one, so my favorites are:
"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." --Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary and author of "The Book of Virtues," Sept. 28, 2005.
Yes, we all know this was quoted out of context. Yes, we all know that on some rarified level that concerns itself with only numbers and not environmental or human concerns, he may have a point. Yes, we all know he kinda-sorta apologized for saying it, even seconds after he let fly with this truly classic example of idiocy. We know all this. Yet, I contend that, living in the age of spin-sterbation, saying something like this on a national radio show and thinking you're going to get away with it compounds the stupidity rather than minimizes it.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." --Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Aug. 22, 2005.
While pragmatic as hell, it is concerning when any religious figure, regardless of how bogus their own spiritual development is or how closely they resemble a demented leprauchaun, starts advocating assassination. Even after reading the Bible and the DaVinci Code, I seem to have missed the part where Jesus gives the thumbs-up to black ops.
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." --Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005.
And this is exactly why the native peoples of Alaska put their old, crazy people on ice chunks and let nature run it's course.
"I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called." --Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's White House records, Oct. 5, 2005.
While not as flashy as the Yeehaw Heard Round The World, this once again shows that Dean, while having the best of intensions, should probably have "Black and Decker" tattoed on his forehead so everyone will remember that, at heart, he's a tool.
25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes of 2005
I can't choose just one, so my favorites are:
"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." --Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary and author of "The Book of Virtues," Sept. 28, 2005.
Yes, we all know this was quoted out of context. Yes, we all know that on some rarified level that concerns itself with only numbers and not environmental or human concerns, he may have a point. Yes, we all know he kinda-sorta apologized for saying it, even seconds after he let fly with this truly classic example of idiocy. We know all this. Yet, I contend that, living in the age of spin-sterbation, saying something like this on a national radio show and thinking you're going to get away with it compounds the stupidity rather than minimizes it.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." --Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Aug. 22, 2005.
While pragmatic as hell, it is concerning when any religious figure, regardless of how bogus their own spiritual development is or how closely they resemble a demented leprauchaun, starts advocating assassination. Even after reading the Bible and the DaVinci Code, I seem to have missed the part where Jesus gives the thumbs-up to black ops.
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." --Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005.
And this is exactly why the native peoples of Alaska put their old, crazy people on ice chunks and let nature run it's course.
"I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called." --Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's White House records, Oct. 5, 2005.
While not as flashy as the Yeehaw Heard Round The World, this once again shows that Dean, while having the best of intensions, should probably have "Black and Decker" tattoed on his forehead so everyone will remember that, at heart, he's a tool.
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