Category: Awards

"Abstinence-until-marriage is definitely not statistically "normal" behavior in this day and age (nor was it when I was a teen), but does that make it "unrealistic"? I don’t know. But watching Bristol speak raises for me another more pressing question: Is it really wise for an entire society to adopt the point of view of the average inarticulate 18-year-old kid?" – Maggie Gallagher.

The Bristol Palin interview – highly recommended for those with a Palin hathos fixation (ahem) – can be viewed here. Seriously: this is reality TV you don’t want to miss. If only to observe how Greta van Susteren’s mouth seems to have been re-attached to her face upside down.

"Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist," – Alan Keyes.

This is the rhetoric one has to be aware of: Limbaugh’s "they must be stopped"; and here, with Keyes, "we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist." Limbaugh prefaces his statement by saying within constitutional means, but Keyes is not so careful. If they are whipping up this kind of hatred now, after a month, and describing this as a question of "stopping" Obama or losing America, then the next few years of depression are going to be scary.

"Sometimes a joke about monkeys is, well, just a joke about monkeys," – Daniel Luzer, Mother Jones.

Insta and Malkin debate the stimulus on PJTV.

"Homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion. And you say that around here now and everybody goes nuts. But I don’t care. They’re mean. They want to talk about being nice. They’re the meanest buggers I have ever seen. It’s just like the Muslims. Muslims are good people and their religion is anti-war. But it’s been taken over by the radical side. What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t answer that because anything goes. They’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of," – Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars.

"The theme of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) should be “Cocooning our way to Irrelevancy” or perhaps “How to lose the next 5 elections in 10 easy steps.” From my point of view, it really is that bad. With the exception of some effort to bring conservatism into the 21st century communications-wise, the program appears to be an excellent panacea for what ailed conservatism in about 1980. It’s as if the debacles of 2006 and 2008 never happened. Does it matter that the very same people who helped get us clobbered the last two election cycles are running seminars and roundtables at the conference? Not if you’re a movement still in denial that it will take more than “message tweaking” and better utilization of the internet to bring conservatism back and make it relevant to a large portion of Americans again," – Rick Moran, The Next Right.

Plus: Coulter is back!

"In other words when Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama got done "financially raping" you this week they left you with a tab to be paid that is a higher price tag than the globe’s resources could combine to pay off. Political leaders with no morals see little difference between nominating administration members who will not prosecute those harmful persons that create elements that lead to sexual assault on innocent girls, nor the physical equivalent of doing the same thing to your pocketbook, future earnings, and any ability to dream of self sufficiency," – Kevin McCullough, "What Liberals Share With Rapelay", Townhall.

The column continues the current Republican meme that the entire national debt and trillion dollar deficit were created by "liberals." Obama has been president for three weeks. The last Democratic president paid down the national debt and left with a surplus.

"The real internal terrorists are the Republicans, I mean, isn’t that clear? Rush Limbaugh is a bigger threat to this country than Osama bin Laden. He’s a bigger threat than anybody that the CIA can invent. He’s a bigger threat than any terrorist that ever leveled its sights against the United States, Limbaugh is, so why isn’t he arrested and sentenced for treason?," – Mike Malloy.

"I want everything he’s doing to fail … I want the stimulus package to fail … I do not want this to succeed,” – Rush Limbaugh.

(hat tip: Matt Steinglass)

"I’m phobically allergic to the conservative Republican types the military is rife with, but I’ve only been in country four months and already I hate liberals. There’s plenty of ugliness to report in Iraq (as there are thousands of stories of hope and headway)–and the U.S. military certainly isn’t beyond reproach. Nobody’s telling you to report on one side or the other. But manipulating the truth because of your own personal biases is wretched and works in the face of progress," – S.D. Liddick, a free-lance and self-identified Marxist reporter in Anbar, Iraq.