Category: Moore Award Nominee

"It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood. Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being put out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society," – Chris Lehane, Democratic party hack.

"Okay, we all know that there are major problems with some of their op ed columnists. First off, there’s David Brooks, that shallow, insufferably smug propagandist for the 1 percenters whose only interesting moments occur when he drops the genial nice-guy pose and shows us his snarling, viciously punitive, anti-working people side. Then there’s Maureen Dowd who, half the time, reads like she has the emotional maturity of Paris Hilton (though I will say that Modo’s recent columns about Jerry Sandusky and the Catholic Church have been spot-on). Finally, there’s Ross Douthat, a know-nothing hack with serial killer eyes whose creepy, misogynist sexual politics are positively medieval, and whose column has become one of my favorite hate-reads ever," – Kathleen Geier, Washington Monthly.

Whatever happened to the art of insult?

"Suppose for the sake of argument that our national debt has become a huge problem. How did it become a problem? Because of the Bush tax cuts, the Iraq War, and the recession (which, whatever its root causes, came about under Bush).

Suppose for the sake of argument that future spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security has become a huge problem. How did it become a problem? Because of massive increases in the cost of medical care, which has been exacerbated by Republican obstruction of national health care policy (the US spends about 50% more on medical care as a proportion of GDP than other western countries)

If Romney wins, and uses the so-called debt crisis to end collective bargaining rights, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as we know them, it will be nothing less than another Reichstag fire," – "Metrosexual Black AbeJ," Balloon Juice.

My guess is a solid percentage of men who protest at abortion clinics masturbate about it later. Maybe even some of the women.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 23, 2012

"So where has the idea that Shakespeare is "universal" come from? Why do people the world over study and perform Shakespeare? Colonialism. That's where, and that's why. Shakespeare was a powerful tool of empire, transported to foreign climes along with the doctrine of European cultural superiority. Taught in schools and performed under the proscenium arches built where the British conquered, universal Shakespeare was both a beacon of the greatness of European civilisation and a gateway into that greatness – to know the bard was to be civilised. True story," – Emer O'Toole, The Guardian.

"We've got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses — those dirty shops … They ought to go. I'll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too," – Marion Barry, running in yet another election.

"I love abortion. I don't accept it. I don't view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. … [T]here is no need to suggest that abortion be rare. To say so implies a value judgement, promoting the idea that abortion is somehow distasteful or immoral and should be avoided," - Jessica DelBalzo.

"So Western media sneak correspondents into Syria illegally, and then expect the Syrian regime to protect them.  If Israel were to see one Western correspondent sneaking into Israel, he/she would be incinerated on the spot," – As'ad Abu Khalil, on the killing of journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik by Syrian shells hitting a media tent in Homs.

"I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens (at the convention). Don't ever let me see again, in life, those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons," – Maxine Waters (D-CA).

"It’s worth noting that the United States and Al Qaeda are on the same side in Syria," – Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation.