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Faced with a plethora of interesting items crossing my desk today, I thought I'd do the righteous thing and share some with you:
Brilliant:
"If you love Will & Grace and you aren't pro gay marriage... fuck you!" - Margaret Cho
Infuriating:
"Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen." - the ever-careless Bill O'Reilly (from this would-be-hilarious-if-it-wasn't-so-damn-sickening piece, via Vidiot)
Frightening:
"40% of Americans say they consider talk show host Bill O'Reilly a journalist - more than would define famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward the same way." - Associated Press
More frightening:
"(Of those polled) more than a quarter said Rush Limbaugh was [a journalist] - AP (and we intelligent humans wonder why this country's going to shit?)
Fantastic:
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency (title of Senator Robert Byrd's upcoming book)
Lies (or, at the very least, unproven truths):
"The individuals at Guantanamo Bay are dangerous terrorists who seek to do harm to the American people." - Scott McClellan (that's right, Scotty, keep trying to scare us into agreeing with your illegal and immoral policies)
Truth:
"There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda. Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them? It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It's very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth." - Hillary Clinton
Encouraging:
"About one-third of adults said they think the country is headed in the right direction, while only 43% said they approve of the job being done by Bush. Just 41% say they support his handling of the war." - AP
I don't generally believe polls to be entirely accurate, but they sometimes make me hopeful nonetheless:
"Congress gets even lower grades than Bush, a potentially troubling development for those seeking re-election next year. Only about three in 10 polled approve of the job being done by Congress." - AP
You voted for these clowns, you 51% who thought it better to stick with what we have and raise the conservative consciousness in this country to new heights with your Bible-thumping, homo-hating, intolerant, racist senators and governors. Let's see how far it gets us these next four years (assuming we aren't bombed to oblivion before then by people we've bullied into action).
Posted by ayelet at June 14, 2005 09:43 AM