What Liberals Say » Personal destruction

Ronald Reagan was ineffectual.

Tom Oliphant — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:21:44 +0000

“A hundred years from now â€“ long after Ronald Reagan has been lumped with other ineffectual Dr. Feelgoods like William McKinley and Calvin Coolidge who swam with the tide of their times â€“ the last fourth of the 20th century will be remembered for the demise of imperial communism, and the Soviet Union’s president will be remembered for both making and letting it happen.”

Certainty is bad.

Anthony Lewis — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:06:11 +0000

“[C]ertainty is the enemy of decency and humanity in people who are sure they are right, like Osama bin Laden and John Ashcroft.”

Describing Florida secretary of state (Republican) Katherine Harris.

Margery Eagan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:02:55 +0000

“[Katherine Harris would] be remembered for looking just ghastly Tuesday night. At least by Wednesday her appearance seemed almost — if not quite — transformed. Like Dr. Richard Sharpe, the transvestite and alleged wife killer. Or Marilyn Manson. Or Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie. Or Cruella De Vil. Or Leona Helmsley on Halloween.”

Describing Florida secretary of state (Republican) Katherine Harris.

Robin Givhan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:00:13 +0000

“Her lips were overdrawn with berry-red lipstick — the creamy sort that smears all over a coffee cup and leaves smudges on shirt collars. Her skin had been plastered and powdered . . . . Caterpillars seemed to rise and fall with every bat of her eyelid. . . . Her mouth is a jagged edge. One of the reasons Harris is so easy to mock is because she, to be honest, seems to have applied her makeup with a trowel.”

Describing Condoleezza Rice.

Helen Thomas — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:47:46 +0000

“I tell you, the woman is a monster, a monster, a monster.”

Describing President George Bush.

Helen Thomas — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:46:41 +0000

“My God, the man is a fascist — a fascist, I tell you.”

Describing Condoleezza Rice.

Sly Sylvester — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:44:22 +0000

“[She's] Aunt Jemima.” [Later, in an apology:] “It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima. She wasn’t a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn’t kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney.”

Describing Condoleezza Rice.

Ted Rall — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:41:41 +0000

“[Condoleezza Rice is President Bush's] ‘House Nigga’.”

Comparing George Bush with Adolf Hitler.

Dave Lindorff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:40:22 +0000

“It’s going a bit far to compare the Bush of 2003 to the Hitler of 1933. Bush is simply not the orator that Hitler was. Bur comparisons of the Bush administration’s fear-mongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels on the German people and their Weimar Republic are not at all out of line.”

Comparing George Bush with Adolf Hitler.

Dave Lindorff — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:38:52 +0000

“[Hitler] would be proud that an American president [George Bush] is emulating him in so many ways.”