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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 10:48 PM
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The Most Outrageous Statements of 2005...
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  • Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." (Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, 9/28/05)

  • Pat Robertson: "If (Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez) thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it." (Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, 8/22/05)

  • Bill O'Reilly to San Francisco: "If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. ... You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead." (Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 12/8/05)

  • Bill O'Reilly, agreeing with caller that illegal immigrants are "biological weapon(s)": "I think you could probably make an absolutely airtight case that more than 3,000 Americans have been either killed or injured, based upon the 11 million illegals who are here." (Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 4/15/05)

  • Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." (The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05)
    Rush Limbaugh on the kidnapping of peace activists in Iraq: "I'm telling you, folks, there's a part of me that likes this." (The Rush Limbaugh Show, 11/29/05)

  • Ann Coulter: Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"; "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties"; "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning." (New York Observer, 1/10/05)

  • Ann Coulter: "Isn't it great to see Muslims celebrating something other than the slaughter of Americans?" (Syndicated column, 2/3/05)

  • Radio host Glenn Beck: "You know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year." (Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 9/9/05)

  • Tucker Carlson: "Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada." (MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson, 12/15/05)

  • American Family Association president Tim Wildmon: Liberals "don't have the kind of family responsibilities most people have, and certainly not church responsibilities." (American Family Radio's Today's Issues, 5/11/05)

  • David Horowitz on Cindy Sheehan: "It's very hard to have respect for a woman who exploits the death of her own son and doesn't respect her own son's life. ... She portrays him as an idiot." (MSNBC's Connected: Coast to Coast, 8/16/05)

  • Radio host Neal Boortz on the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams: "There will be riots in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. ... The rioting, of course, will lead to wide scale looting. There are a lot of aspiring rappers and NBA superstars who could really use a nice flat-screen television right now." (Boortz.com, 12/12/05)

  • Pat Buchanan: "Our guys" in Iraq "have got every right to have good news put into the media and get to the people of Iraq, even if it's got to be planted or bought." (MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, 12/1/05)

  • National Review editor Rich Lowry: Given EPA-mandated "small-flush" toilets, "how is it possible to flush a Quran down the toilet?" (Young America's Foundation speech, 8/5/05)

  • Neal Boortz, suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution: "I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard here in Atlanta and have a job. What's that? Well, no, no, no. ... Well, you know what? (laughing) Now that you mention it ... if that's the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers." (Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show, 10/24/05)

  • Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson: Same-sex marriage would lead to "marriage between daddies and little girls ... between a man and his donkey." (Focus on the Family radio program, 10/6/05)

  • Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid: "Have you noticed that many news organizations, in honor of former ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings, have embarked on a quit smoking campaign? So why don't our media launch a campaign advising people to quit engaging in the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle? ... It appears that the homosexual lifestyle is as addictive as smoking." (Accuracy in Media column, 12/14/05)
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:02 PM
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1. That's a fine list of morons talking like lobotomized 7 years old kids.
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:17 PM
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3. Don't you mean "morans"...
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johnnypneumatic Donating Member (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:15 PM
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2. I kinda think Rumsfeld should be on the list for the "Guantanamo Diet"
"There are a number of people who go on a diet where they don't eat for a period and then go off of it at some point. And then they rotate and other people do that."
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:27 PM
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4. I Like John Bolton's (America's UN Embassador) Statement ...
"If you wiped out the top 10 floors of the UN building, it wouldn't matter".
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OhNoTheyDidNot Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:37 PM
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5. What about Pat telling those people not to ask God for help because they
voted God out on some city council ammendment ... can't remember the details ... just remember the idiocy
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:48 PM
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6. Cheney's comments
about the insurgency was pretty outrageous. "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency"

:rofl:
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:51 PM
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7. Oh'Really should, at least, get an honorable mention ...
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 11:58 PM by cosmicdot
I do not watch corporate media, but I was out of town visiting friends during Katrina; and, they do ... my jaw dropped to the floor with a 'no he didn't' comment when O'liely said: "You're probably wondering why you've been seeing a lot of Black faces on TV the last few days." That may not be exact word for word, but that's what he said; and, I have witnesses.

I couldn't believe my ears.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 11:53 PM
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8. We should put up a site " Finest Conservative Commentary 2005"
Not that any of these people are Conservatives. They're Pod People.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:01 AM
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9. You're going too far by calling them "Pod People"
They aren't people. How about "Pod Things"? :o
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:03 AM
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10. Pod Units?
:rofl:
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:12 AM
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11. Podroids?
:o
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 04:48 PM
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17. Podomitons... n/t
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:39 AM
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12. Here's another one:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:46 AM
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14. One more from Bush's mama
"Almost everyone I've talked to says, 'We're going to move to Houston.' What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 12:43 AM
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13. So did Boortz apologize for this one?
"There will be riots in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. ... The rioting, of course, will lead to wide scale looting. There are a lot of aspiring rappers and NBA superstars who could really use a nice flat-screen television right now."

Racist prick.... :mad:
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 01:19 AM
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15. Boortz is a piece of work...
He denigrated the Ktrina victims who were living in hotel rooms paid for by FEMA saying they should get a job.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 01:28 AM
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16. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"
That one wins the prize in my book.
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 05:31 PM
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18. Yeah - That one's a classic... n/t
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DemGirl7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 06:39 PM
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19. and next year its probably going to be the same list full of freaks
Its the same bunch of freaks that say these evil, hateful comments every year. Its kind of like a broken record, that repeats itself over and over again. I've gotten to the point that I just laugh at these assholes, because these comments prove that they are crazy loons.
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