Not your basic even-handed, caring, centrist moderation

townhall.com ^ | 2/12/04 | Ross Mackenzie

[kattracks]

So here we are again, well into another calendar - and the past year's winning quotations from the media (mostly television) rated by the Media Research Council (www.mediaresearch.org). It's full of doozies.

The MRC collects quotations certifying generally the idiocy of many in the mainline media, specifically the idiot leftism - even of "personalities" who seemingly will go to their graves protesting the very suggestion they are anything but even-handed, caring, centrist moderates.

With that, here are samples from the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2003" (Disclosure: I have judged such collections as an MRC panelist in the past, but not in 2003.)

- Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas (quoted Jan. 19, 2003): "This is the worst president ever. (George W. Bush) is the worst president in all of American history."

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Charles Pierce in the Boston Globe Magazine (Jan. 5): "If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."

Okay. That one. My all-time favorite, absolutely, hands down, case closed, right there.

I mean: how on earth could anyone ever top that one, for sheer, unbridled chutzpah...? :)

[bigghurtt]

perhaps teddy should sponsor a bill to provide swimming lessons to all young women in massachusetts who might encounter a kennedy.

just a suggestion.