WHAT ARE THE MOST BONEHEADED STATEMENTS BY THE RATS?

dfu | 1-19-02 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Let's have some fun on this thread. Let's chronicle some of the most boneheaded things ever said by the RATS. Please find a source and give an exact quote.

I'll start.

The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: "We just don't teach enough science." Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order...

[doug from upland]

A member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee? Well, at least she had the right astronaut. Maybe she remembered that from a song.

[Rain-maker]

'I voted for Gore'...a real winners statement, LOL!~

[doug from upland]

Today the whole argument of violence towards slaves has been remarkably blown out of proportion. In a dramatic speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Major Owens, a black Congressman from New York, asserted that, "One hundred million African slaves were thrown overboard on the middle passage to the Americas." He said that so many slaves were thrown overboard that it had permanently altered the ecological balance of the Atlantic Ocean to the degree that to this day sharks still swim the old slave routes hoping to get a free meal. That one hundred million number is oft repeated and it showed up in a letter-to-the-editor column in our local newspaper recently.

Now, a misunderstanding of history and numbers that far-fetched is, at first, laughable. But when you examine the motivation behind that fantasy it become pathetic. Obviously every slave ship that ever sailed the Atlantic would have to have thrown overboard each and every member of its human cargo to begin to equal only a fraction of that outrageously inflated number. The actual documented numbers of slaves thrown overboard, including the obviously sick ones who were not going to survive the long trip, number in the mid hundreds. Those sorts of wildly exaggerated numbers-millions and hundreds of millions-by a U. S. Congressman no less, illustrates the remarkable extent to which intelligent comments about slavery have been abandoned in modern day discussion. The use of those absurd numbers is nothing more than the injection of mindless emotionalism for political gain. And those sorts of numbers are repeated over and over because they achieve their purpose in today's atmosphere; that is, they actually work in the political arena.

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[Not now, Not ever!]

I think nadler the waddeler's statement about "a whiff of fascisim" during the the goron's attempt to steal the 2000 election belong in here,

Was he smelling the oil from a modified vote-a-matic?

[doug from upland]

"The era of big government is over." ..... Sinkmaster

[Not now, Not ever!]

Wasen't it Tip (Dip) O'Neil who said we have to investigate this precisly because there is no evidence about Iran-Contra?

[doug from upland]

"How many dead because of Reagan? How many in Nicaragua and El Salvador? 260+ dead Marines in the Beruit (his misspelling) airport, murdered with bombs he sold Iran through Ollie North. How many more?" ..... a know-nothing hack writer and sometimes street protestor from the East Coast

[doug from upland]

Please try to give us a source for the quote. No made up quotes by Gore. Get ones from a sourced article. They are numerous.

[pke]

When all of the pro-abortion RATS say, "...for the children..."

[woofer]

Wasen't it Tip (Dip) O'Neil who said we have to investigate this precisly because there is no evidence about Iran-Contra?

No, and it may have been Mitchell, but it was about investigating Bush regarding the phanthom flight to Paris where he secretly and single-handedly negotiated the release of the hostages from Iran, but had 'em wait until after election day 1980 so Carter would lose.

[glock rocks]

WHAT ARE THE MOST BONEHEADED STATEMENTS BY THE RATS?

who needs a statement, when we've got this...

[diefree]

doesn't this one come under www.snopes.com

[woofer]

who needs a statement, when we've got this...

[inseted picture of Jackson-Lee here]

Now, now. The request was for Bonehead Statements not Bonehead Sightings

[glock rocks]

well, i figured, if a picture's worth a thousand words,
maybe the texan's mars delegate would be worth a couple hundred... hmmm?

[doug from upland]

For any lurkers who have come to this thread, please note that we are not attacking Sheila Jackson Lee because she is black. We are attacking her because she is stupid.

Now, I have to go read about Armstrong's adventures on the Red Planet.

[sweetliberty]

I think I'll get me another cup of coffee, put my feet up and watch this thread grow to record proportions. Acutually, it'd be a handy reference for refuting some of their future idiotic statements.

Parsy, TLB and LB...I just know y'all have a treasure trove for this thread.

[boris]

"African Americans watch the evening news on television--just like normal Americans."
--Bill Clinton, Interview on Black Entertainment TV, (I think) 1993.

Imagine if the very same words had come from Reagan's lips...in the same venue and context...

--Boris

[doug from upland]

I remember it, Boris. Thanks for the source.

[TLBSHOW]

LOL

web rattlers are self replicating at this very moment! As they eat each other.....

[hole_n_one]

Statement by Al Gore in the Wh Rose Garden after Clinton's impeachment.............

What happened as a result does a great disservice to a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest Presidents

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