Fact Finder wrote:“Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we’ll be there to watch.” -- Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, Oct. 13, 2009.
“So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to -- or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.” -- Montel Williams talking about Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Air America’s Montel Across America, Sept. 2, 2009.
After then-Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) said that the federal government was spending too much money on AIDS, National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg, on the July 8, 1995 edition of Inside Washington, said, “I think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.”
On the Nov. 4, 1994 edition of PBS’s To the Contrary, then-USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux said of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. … He is an absolutely reprehensible person.”
I'm sure that for some reason these won't count, but I feel like a champ for trying.![]()
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I stand corrected on these four. I appreciate the posts. I think Williams' quote is almost as vile as Malveaux'. Totenberg's statment is shocking and disappointing; depending on the context of the Matthews quote, it's damned ugly too, although I think he was just lowering himself to make a "fat joke" and is not at the same level as the other three. Anyway, he is a political harlot, and as soon as a Republican sits on the throne he'll be kissing his or her ass up one side and down the other.
Now I hate EVERYONE on TV and radio. Thanks.
If you have any links or quotes attributable to any House or Senate candidates on the left side of the aisle, I would welcome that, too. Believe it or not, my world view is malleable, and now that I know these people said what they said, I will make it a point to not watch their shows or listen to them anymore.
Disgusting.