I Didn't Say It ....

Ben Stein, on how to end poverty in America:

"My humble observation is that most long-term poverty is caused by self-sabotage by individuals. Drug use. Drunkenness. Having children without a family structure. Gambling. Poor work habits. Disastrously unfortunate appearance. Above all, and counted in the preceding list, psychological problems (very much including basic laziness) cause people to be unemployed, have poor or no work habits, and enter and stay in poverty. Is there any public policy that can help them? We just don’t know so far. But whipping up hate against the successful simply cannot do it. There is no connecting mechanism between envy and greater productivity. Quite the opposite. Envy legitimizes class hatred and idleness and produces nothing. What will make the genuinely poor stop sabotaging themselves? Maybe, just maybe, if we let God back into the public forum it would help. I have seen spiritual solutions work miracles." 

Seriously, Ben? You thinbk there are no drug-addled, alcohol-addicted, lazy ugly Christians?

You think if God could solve poverty just by eliminating the Separation of Church and State in this country she wouldn't have snapped ehr fingers and done it already.

Seriously, Ben, you're stupid.

Vance McAllister, the Republican Congressman from Louisiana, who campaigned on the defense of “natural marriage", after being busted on video making out with a female aide:

"There’s no doubt I’ve fallen short and I’m asking for forgiveness. I’m asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff and my constituents who elected me to serve. Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you’re a husband, a father or a congressman. I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I’ve disappointed. From day one, I’ve always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not just be another politician."

No thanks. You preached and campaigned about traditional marriage and how much better it is and how anything less than that hurts society and this country, all the while taking a sh*t on your own marriage.

Heath Peacock, the husband of the woman caught on video making out with Vance McAllister:

"I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he said 'I need your prayers,' and I asked, 'When did you get religious?' He said, 'When I needed votes.' He broke out the religious card and he's about the most non-religious person I know. He's apologized to everyone in the world except me. I’m just freaking devastated by the whole deal, man. I loved my wife so much. I cannot believe this. I cannot freaking believe it. I feel like I’m going to wake up here in a minute and this is all going to be a bad nightmare. It was just a kiss, that was all it was, but it embarrassed me and my family."

A kiss is more than a kiss, and your wife is just as much to blame.

But Vance has proven himself to be your typical lying politician who will say anything and do anything to get elected, and then do anyone afterwards.

Kevin Spacey, on the persistent rumors about his sexuality:

"I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to...I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political. I just think that's horseshit. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. Now some people feed that. They'll go to the trendy restaurants where all the photographers are and then bitch about being famous. But if you don't want to feed that and you want your life to be based around what your work is then it ends there."

Methinks Kevin doth protest too much. A lie isn’t simply being untruthful; a lie is also in omitting the truth.

Is he gay? I couldn’t care less. But if he is, just by saying those two little words might help a lot of people deal with their own orientation and that wouldn’t be a bad thing at all, now would it Kevin?

Frank Bruni, on the Mozilla business and Brendan Eich:

"A leading supporter of gay marriage, [Andrew] Sullivan warned other supporters not to practice 'a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else.' I can’t get quite as worked up as he did. For one thing, prominent gay rights groups weren’t part of the Mozilla fray. For another, Mozilla isn’t the first company to make leadership decisions (or reconsiderations) with an eye toward the boss’s cultural mind-meld with the people below him or her. And if you believe that to deny a class of people the right to marry is to deem them less worthy, it’s indeed difficult to chalk up opposition to marriage equality as just another difference of opinion. But it’s vital to remember how very recently so many of equality’s promoters, like Obama and Clinton, have come around and how relatively new this conversation remains.  [snip] Sullivan is right to raise concerns about the public flogging of someone like Eich. Such vilification won’t accelerate the timetable of victory, which is certain. And it doesn’t reflect well on the victors."

Bruni hits it out of the park again.

Rob Lowe, on how hard it is being pretty:

“There’s this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can’t be in pain or they can’t have rough lives or be deep or interesting. They can’t be any of the things that you long to play as an actor. I’m getting to play those parts now and loving it. When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.”

It wasn’t the pretty, it was the shallow, Rob.

Paul Newman never had a problem, so maybe it's just you?

Hillary Clinton, on running for President:

"I am thinking about it. ... The hard questions aren't do you want to be president, or can you win. The hard question is why. Why would you want to do this and what would you offer that could make a difference."

Do it.

Alan Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Wyoming, in an ad from Freedom to Marry:

“I’m a Republican. The party’s basic core is, government out of your life and the right to be left alone. Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them. I've had a wonderful married life. Why shouldn't someone else have the joy of marriage? Live and let live."

Sad that he's a 'former' Repblican because the GOP needs more like him.

I Didn't Say It....

Alan Grayson, former Congressman, on what the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are about:
"They're complaining about the fact that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody's been held responsible for that. Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying 20% of our national net worth accumulated over the course of two centuries. They're upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country, and that one part is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well!"


There you have it.
Plain and simple.
Leave it to Grayson to just spell it out without the rhetoric.

Michael Keegan, head of People For The American Way, on Mitt Romney's condemnation of Bryan Fischer--even while never mentioning Fischer by name:
"Mitt Romney clearly realized that his presidential campaign couldn’t ignore the bigotry of Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association. I’m glad that he saw fit to put at least a small distance between himself and the hate speech regularly pushed by Fischer, even if he couldn’t bring himself to call Fischer out by name. Since he began running for President, Mitt Romney has bent over backwards in a desperate attempt to make himself palatable to the extreme right. At least we’ve seen that there are some things he’s willing to speak out against, no matter how tepid his condemnation may be. It’s disappointing that none of the other candidates have been willing to go even that far."


Maybe Mittsy is finally realizing that hate is hate. I mean Bryan Fischer hates Mormons as much as he hates the Gays.
And the Jews.
And the Muslims.
And the Black community.

Andrew Sullivan, on MGB not running for president:
"So she's bowing out. Call it cowardice; call it a rare example of sanity; call it a bizarre end to an even weirder game of hide and seek for the past few months. But the bottom line is: we can stop worrying about the threat she posed to this country. That is all I really cared about: the insane gamble with the world that John McCain foisted on us, with no vetting and no reason but desperation and cynicism. It is hard to describe the relief of this awful person finally going away."


The sad fact, however, is that she won't ever really go away because she thinks some folks want to hear her asinine opinions, and watch her asinine shows, and follow her asinine family.
She quite because she can make more money being an ass, which is a sad commentary on our country.

Neil Patrick Harris, on how to survive in Hollywood:
"Actually, the secret to surviving Hollywood is fairly obvious. Costar in a major motion picture with Whoopi Goldberg, accept the leading role on a television at 16, disappear for a while, surfacing only for the occasional TV movie or animated children's series, send up your image in a cultish stoner movie, play a womanizing scoundrel on a hit TV show, come out of the closet to millions of people, become a father of twins, and then take over the world. Sounds pretty simple to me...."


And I think he's on the right track to total NPH domination.
Woo! Hoo!

Ben Stein, Teabagger and hasbeen actor, on Occupy Wall Street:
"The next step, I am sure, by the way, for the Occupy Wall Street crowd is for Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, the trifecta of conventional wisdom's failed liberalism, to come down to Wall Street and join the masses in demanding more of our tax money so they can all be supported as novelists and movie directors. You poor kids. You are basically asking to be supported and taken care of by Mommy and Daddy. Wake up, kids. Wall Street is you, with all of your wants and needs and wishes, only they have the balls to go out and work for it. Sometimes they are crooks and sometimes they are fools -- but you know what? So are all of us. Listen to Mr. Cain. Shut up and get to work."


Blame the havenots for not having, while banks and brokers become multi-billionaires on their backs.
I guess it's okay to steal and rob from the poor because you, um, worked at it.
You're an asshat, Mister Stein.

R. Clark Cooper, head of the Log Cabin Republicans, responding to Herman Cain's assertion that homosexuality is a choice:
"If Herman Cain truly wants to see the science proving that sexual orientation is not a choice, Log Cabin Republicans would be happy to show it to him. The claim that a person chooses to be gay or lesbian has been discredited by every major professional medical organization, starting with the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association. An individual’s orientation is no more a choice than the color of his skin or whether he is left-handed, and too many people have been hurt because of failed attempts to change the way they were born."


Herman Cain is that typical Republican, like Bachmann and Perry before him, and the asshats that will surely follow, who won't believe anything that doesn't suit their political agenda and aspirations, even with evidence right under their nose.
You cannot teach an old stupid GOP dog a new trick.

Rachel Maddow, on gay marriage:

"I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture."


I kind of disagree with Maddow here.
i don't think fighting for the right to be married means we must all get married. It simply means we have the same rights as everyone else.
To form some sort of traditional marital bond, or do as Maddow has done, find a new way to have her relationship recognized.
We don't have to get married, but we do have the right to do so if we choose.

Courtney Love, on how she might react if Kurt Cobain came back to life:
"Mad? Ya think?! If he came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us. I’d f–king kill him. I’d f–k him, and then I’d kill him...He tried to kill himself three times!...He OD’d at least five times. I was the fucking E.M.S. I was always sticking pins in his balls. I carried around Narcan!”


She's quite the victim of Cobain's addictions, and the hero of them as well.
Love likes to rewrite history.
The sad thing is that even after she rewrites it, she rewrites it again and again so you'll never know what she actually means.

Mat Staver, head of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University’s law school, on the "gay threat":
"We are facing the survival of western values, western civilization. And I think those survival, whether they win or lose, what will the future of America be will be determined in our lifetime…. One of the most significant threats to our freedom is in the area of sexual anarchy with the agenda of the homosexual movement, the so-called LGBT movement. It does several things, first of all it undermines family and the very first building block of our society, but secondly, it’s a zero sum game as well and it’s a direct assault on our religious freedom and freedom of speech."


So, in order to protect your freedoms, Mat, you work to denigrate, demoralize, and humiliate the LGBT community?
You work to deny us our freedoms in order to, in your words, protect yours?
STFU asshat.

Barney Frank, firing back at Newt "Serial Adulterer" Gingrich, after Gingrich said he should be jailed:
"I wish I knew that he was willing to listen to my advice, I would have given him some: I would have told him not to impeach Clinton, I would have told his successors not to go to war with Iraq, and I would have told DeLay not to go on the dance show. He’s been having a bad year, you know — this self-styled intellectual leader of the free world struggling to stay ahead of Michele Bachmann in the polls is unsettling him so he talks even sillier than he sometimes does."


Poor Newt, nothing going for him, no chancre at ever being elected to public office again, a possible divorce in his future--let's face it, he's a three-time loser at marriage--so he has to make idiotic statements just to get noticed.
Must be hard for Newty, realizing a pizza-maker, a Minnesota wingnut, and a Texas Bush 3, get more press.

Anita Perry, saying that her husband is being targeted for his devout faith:
"It’s been a rough month. We have been brutalized and beaten up and chewed up in the press to where I need this today. We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith. He is the only true conservative – well, there are some true conservatives. And they’re there for good reasons. And they may feel like God called them too. But I truly feel like we are here for that purpose."


Oh Anita, you think it'd get any easier if your idiot husband was prewsident.
Delsuional? Meet Anita.
And, um, Anita, nealry all the recent front-runners of the GOP presidential field say that God called them to be president, so either God can't make up her mind or she's playing a coloosal joke on y'all.