Category: Moore Award Nominee

"You know what man? I am going to literally — if she gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country. It’s for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it’s for my country," – comedian/actor Christopher Titus.

"[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and – and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally – and very transparently – block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it's nothing short of that blatant," – DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  She admirably retracts the analogy.

"President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday but you know what they’re talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name? Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over," – Ed Schultz. MSNBC suspends him.

Update: Schultz says he's sorry, in a "rare, deeply sincere apology from the realm of mainstream media."

"Democrats, I don’t want to hear any shyt about “keeping our powder dry”.  You should have enough powder to blow up the Republican side of both Houses of Congress.  The Republicans don’t do “nice” – they play to win.  The advantage is that when you’re not trying to cuddle with rattlesnakes (bipartisanship), you DO know how to govern.  You don’t cuddle rattlesnakes – you blow their effing heads off!" – The Christian Progressive Liberal, on Cantor wanting to fund Missouri disaster relief with cuts in the federal budget.

Ugh:

"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. … He feels most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want,” – Cornel West.

The classic West bullshit: "my dear brother". I am sorry to say I put West in the same category as Gingrich as intellectuals whose reputation as such I could never find any serious evidence for. And I have really tried hard to understand West, charming and eccentric as he is.

No save get, as the computers used to say.

“So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden," – radio host Mike Malloy.

(Hat tip: C4P)

Many readers are echoing this one:

I'm not a big fan of Michael Moore, but can you actually argue that his statements about bin Laden are factually wrong?  His timing and emphasis may be bad, and we kinda know where he's coming from that's not included in his statement, but what he said is actually true.  We did arm him. We short-sightedly thought bin Laden's only gripe was with the Soviets and that he and the Mujahideen could be controllable, bought off, or would at least turn off the heat once they got what they wanted – ousting the Soviets.

Yes, it is factually wrong. Here's Doug Mataconis:

The evidence, in fact, is fairly clear that the “Afghan Arabs” like bin Laden didn’t interact with the Americans at all. The allegations, on the other hand are based on little more than circumstantial evidence and exaggerations. This idea that the CIA trained Osama bin Laden back in 1980 is simply a myth that needs to die along with bin Laden himself. Moore was wrong, and Sullivan was, it seems to me, entirely correct to call him out for it. This is a myth that has taken hold on both the far left and the far right and it’s time that people stopped lying.

Joyner adds nuance:

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “lying,” since people are just repeating what they’ve heard. The confusion comes from the Western conflation of the generic “mujahadeen” into a coherent Mujahadeen, much as we’ve done with the various Taliban groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"The monster we created-yes, WE-in the 1980s by ARMING, FUNDING, &TRAINING him in the art of terror agnst the USSR, finally had 2 b put down. … Which reporter has the courage to say it? "American-armed terrorist from the 80s, Osama bin Laden, was killed earlier today by America," – Michael Moore.

"In '94 people were elected simply to come here to kill the National Endowment for the Arts. Now they’re here to kill women," – Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), on Republican efforts to revoke taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. And she throws in a Nazi reference for good measure.