Latest Notable Quotables: Deriding the Tea Party as Terrorists ‘Strapped with Dynamite’
MRC has just posted the latest edition of Notable Quotables , our bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. This week, NQ is chock full of quotes from journalists slashing the Tea Party as the Republican Party’s “Hezbollah faction,” who have “strapped explosives to the Capitol” and “waged jihad on the American people.” Oh, and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd disparaging the “Tea Party budget slashers” as “cannibals,” “zombies,” and “vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion.” So much for civility. The full package is available at www.MRC.org ; here are some of the best quotes: Deriding the Tea Party: Terrorists “Strapped with Dynamite” “There’s a nihilist caucus which is, ‘Listen, we want to burn the place down.’ I mean, they’re not, they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it. The Tea Party caucus wants this crisis, and do we want to do this again six months from now?” — Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson on Inside Washington , July 29. “If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.” — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, July 27. “You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people….For now, the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests. But rest assured: They’ll have them on again soon enough.” — New York Times columnist Joe Nocera, August 2. Tea Party Budget Slashers = “Cannibals,” “Vampires” and “Zombies” “Tea Party budget-slashers….were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims, Boehner and President Obama. They were like the metallic beasts in Alien flashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth, bursting out of Boehner’s stomach every time he came to a bouquet of microphones.” — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, August 3 column. Children Who Don’t “Understand” How Government Works “The question, I think, some people might be asking is, do you think that members of the Tea Party caucus know how to govern, or are they — do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?” — Co-host Ann Curry to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s Today , August 1. “Some people say that the Republican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party. One of our Facebook followers sent in an interesting analogy and said, ‘Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?’ and this person said, ‘It’s like letting the teenager in the family run the family budget.’ I mean, there’s some truth in that.” — Moderator Bob Schieffer to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Face the Nation , July 31.
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