Bill Clinton recently at a county fair in New York: "I never met a fair I didn't like." I could've sworn he meant to say he never met "affair" he didn't like.
Clinton, making a toast in Cologne, Germany, said: "Ich bin ein Kolsch" which translates as "I am a beer," according to a German tabloid. Aides deny he made the remark.
"[W]e do not believe that the data support the conclusion that fathers are essential to child well-being and that heterosexual marriage is the social context in which responsible fathering is most likely to occur." -- Louise B. Silverstein and Carl F. Auerbach, in "Deconstructing the Essential Father," an article in The American Psychologist, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell called the city's battle over protecting its affirmative action program "our Selma. It's our Edmund Pettus Bridge." In other words he's comparing saving the quota system with the Civil Rights march from Montgomery to Selma where demonstrators were trampled by police on horseback and beaten with nightsticks.
Even liberal representative John Lewis, who suffered a concussion from a beating that day and cannot remember how he left the march, said he would not make such a comparison: "I wouldn't use it [the comparison] because no one is going to beat anyone today. No one is going to be trampled by horses."
Of course, with the hateful rhetoric being spewed by the mayor -- encouraging followers to protest people's homes and that he would "fight to the death," for example -- one wonders if Campbell wouldn't mind if the Southeastern Legal Foundation's members were beaten.
"If you own a gun, I think you should go to prison." -- Rosie O'Donnell, following the Littleton shootings, quoted in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
"Shoot him with a .44-caliber Bulldog." -- Spike Lee, when asked what should be done with NRA president Charlton Heston, quoted in The New York Post.
"The only thing that unites the modern Republican Party is hatred and that's not going to carry them through elections...get something done and quit hating everything and everybody because that's all they can do." -- James Carville, on the China spy story, on CNN's "Late Edition." Typical Leftist tactics, don't actually confront the facts, just demonize your enemy.
"But now the President is also calling for a tax cut. So tomorrow the House may consider a Republican proposal to cut taxes by $800 billion over ten years and possibly a Democratic alternative to cut taxes by less than half that. So voters may well get a tax cut whether they want one or not." -- ABC reporter Linda Douglass, World News Tonight.
"So here we are in this curious twilight in which he plainly acknowledges use of alcohol until he turned 40, makes no claim of privacy in the area of marital infedility, unlike some people we know he did not cheat on his wife, but leaves the question of youthful cocaine use ambiguously addressed with this assertion: I did make mistakes years ago. That is not an explanation that Governor Bush has ever accepted from any other youthful offender." Ted Koppel on Nightline, Aug. 24, 1999, which spent the entire half-hour on the media-driven rumor.
Now here's Koppel on Jan. 19, 1990, after Washington, D.C. Major Marion Barry was arrested for smoking crack: "What happens when the mayor of that city and the leader of its anti-drug campaign is arrested on drug charges?...Marion Barry is a complex man, intelligent, well-educated, a dedicated and successful civil rights worker and, until yesterday, arguably one of the most powerful black politicians in America. He is not the sort of man who will quietly crawl in a corner and disappear." (From the Media Research Center)
In comparison, Koppel did not do an entire show about candidate Clinton in 1992 admitting that he smoked marijuana, or wondering about the incarcerated prisoners in Little Rock who were busted for possessing or using the drug. Despite strong rumors of Clinton's cocaine use as Governor of Arkansas, Koppel has never mentioned that, either. When Clinton was actually accused by Juanita Broadderick of rape, not a peep was heard by Nightline.