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The Blog for Sunday, January 02, 2005

What a Year: "Values" Voters Icons Speak

    From Media Matters (via Last Day of My Life), words actually uttered in 2004 by the "values" voters icons:
    Rush Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib photos: "I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?"

    Ann Coulter: "[Senator John] Kerry will improve the economy in the emergency services and body bag industry."

    Tony Blankley called philanthropist George Soros "a Jew who figured out a way to survive the Holocaust."

    Michael Savage: "When you hear 'human rights,' think gays. ... [T]hink only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son."

    Oliver North: "Every terrorist out there is hoping John Kerry is the next president of the United States."

    Pat Robertson on gays and lesbians: "[S]elf-absorbed hedonists ... that want to impose their particular sexuality on the rest of America."

    Pat Buchanan: "[H]omosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism."

    Bill O'Reilly to Jewish caller: "[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel."

    Bill Cunningham (Clear Channel radio host who appeared as a guest on The Sean Hannity Show): The election is over because "Elizabeth Edwards has now sung."

    Jerry Falwell: "And we're going to invite PETA [to "wild game night"] as our special guest, P-E-T-A -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. We want you to come, we're going to give you a top seat there, so you can sit there and suffer. This is one of my special groups, another one's the ACLU, another is the NOW -- the National Order of Witches [sic]. We've got -- I've got a lot of special groups."
    The citations for each of these statements appears at the Media Matters site.

    Last Day makes the perfect observation: "why is the behavior by conservative pundits considered acceptable in print and television when their form od discourse would not be tolerated at a dinner table or in a barroom conversation?"

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