Category: Awards

Hewitt Award Nominee

"It's the first time I've felt the president wasn't a true American. And that he wants to become a dictator. We didn't like seeing him get elected because of his race," – Maggie Benedict, a participant in the Freedom Cruise, a Christian gospel music extravaganza, hosted by Mike Huckabee.

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.

Moore Award Nominee

"[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.

Hewitt Award Nominee

"President Obama has effectively abandoned the 50-year-old U.S. alliance with Israel. So, where is the outrage from the American Jewish community? Don’t they understand that the president is not pro-Israel? Aren’t they troubled by his history of pro-Palestinian writings, speeches, and actions? The short answer is that most American Jews are liberal, and most American liberals side with the Palestinians and vague notions of “peace” instead of with Israel’s wellbeing and security," – Congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL).

Moore Award Nominee

"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."

Moore Award Nominee

"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.

Hewitt Award Nominee

"Obama has adopted in these speeches what might be termed the Mafia Gambit: the implied threat to Israel that either it accepts the '1967 Auschwitz borders' or runs the gauntlet of UN recognition and further western delegitimisation… The fact is that, for all his ludicrous protestations of friendship towards Israel, Obama believes the Palestinians have a legitimate grievance over the absence of their state. He thus believes their propaganda of historical falsehoods and murderous blood libels. He therefore believes it is a just solution to reward murderous aggression. And that makes Obama a threat not just to Israel but to free societies everywhere," – Melanie Phillips.

A mobster and a Nazi? She outdoes herself.