Category: Moore Award Nominee

"Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode," – Frank Rich, on NY-23. Purge yes. Stalin no.

“For the Cheneys cannot be reasoned with. In their eyes, as in the eyes of all hardcore right-wingers, the liberals’ original sin was FDR’s expansion of government—i.e. taxes on the wealthy—and they consider this transgression just as heinous as the murder of one’s own child. Indeed, the senseless slaughterhouse of the Iraq war, the way it devours children, seems to be the Cheneys’ way of redressing the liberals’ big-government murder of “hard-earned” dollars. Think of Marx’s vision of money copulating in banks to produce interest, and it becomes easier to understand how the Cheneys might think the life of an American soldier equal to, say, ten thousand dollars earned through military contracts,” – Lee Siegel.

“This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes,” Noam Chomsky, on why an Arabic-language copy of his anthology of post-9/11 commentary was rejected by the Gitmo library.

"If you look around at the rest of the world and what this kind of behavior has done, like in Rwanda, where the demagogues got on the radio and fomented all that hate between the Tutsis and the Hutus and the devastation that happened from that, I mean, it's terrifying. And that could happen, you know, you could turn on a dime. That could happen here," – Bette Midler, on how Glenn Beck is breaking down "political discourse." yes, he is breaking down rational discourse. But Rwanda? Do these people have any grip on reality?

"[America is] rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn’t realise how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is," – Gore Vidal.

"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly," – Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL).

"We're a different kind of society. We see things differently. The world sees 13 year olds and 14 year olds in the rest of Europe… not everybody agrees with the way we see things. […] Would I want my 14 year old having sex with somebody? Not necessarily…" – Whoopi Goldberg, using cultural relativism to defend the drugging and sodomizing of a 13-year-old girl.

"[T]he Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They'd rather make money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her. That's how the insurance companies make money — by denying the coverage," – Ed Schultz, MSNBC.

"And so I guess we'll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside intimidating people. … That's the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked, and Congressman Wilson represents it," – Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA).

"9/11 has been the pretext for the systematic dismantling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Your administration is reading from the same playbook that the Bush administration foisted on America through documented secrecy and deception," – actor Charlie Sheen, in an imagined interview with Obama.