Monday, December 19, 2011

Yes, they really said that

The Media Research Center has compiled a list of quotes representing the worst reporting of the year. Scroll down to see the 17 categories (which include awards for, among other things, Obamagasm, Flunking the Founding Fathers and Celebrity Vapidity).

The quote of the year award goes – envelope please – to…Paul Krugman!
“What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. [The] atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neo-cons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”
Read on to discover what TV-news talking heads, politicians and has-been actors think of you, Mr. and Mrs. America!


“A Paco presidency would be like Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship, except with fedoras. And I imagine the security forces would dress up like New York state troopers from the 1940s. Otherwise, no difference at all.”

5 comments:

Minicapt said...

"… security forces would dress up like New York *STORM* troopers from the 1940s."

RebeccaH said...

“A Paco presidency would be like Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship, except with fedoras. And I imagine the security forces would dress up like New York state troopers from the 1940s. Otherwise, no difference at all.”

Does Krugman really believe that? That bastard!

Anonymous said...

Deborah Leigh said... Now, I'm not an authority on North Korean cuisine, but I'm sure that twigs, grass, and bugs don't go with mead. Imagine the undear leader in a fedora.

Paco said...

Rebecca: Cruel, isn't he?

Yojimbo said...

But they had those great motorcycles in the 40s, and no ethanol! What's not ta like?