Our favorite jackbooted fascist, Mr. O'Reilly has out-done himself, pleading on-air for the President of the United States to use the powers of our government to get personal revenge on its latest "enemy."

I think that Americans have got to make a stand and say there's an honest way to make money and there's a dishonest way. And this for a friend of anybody's family to do this, I hope Bush gets them. I hope Bush audits them. I hope Bushes has guys follow them around and gets them. That's what I would do. (Bill O’Reilly, 2/22/05)

What in the hell is he talking about? Douglas Wead, who played a few minutes of telephone calls with then-Gov. Bush for the New York Times.

I can understand how he might be sensitive. He knows a thing or two about taped calls...

RUNNER UP: STAR PARKER

Q:

Am I pushing the envelope too far to suggest that there is common ground between the politics of slavery and the politics of Social Security? (Star Parker, 2/15/05)

A: Uh, YES.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Michael, what year father [Julian Bond] has said about him [Bush], frankly, is unconscionable. It's been unfair. And I don't see any reason why the president should sit down with your father until your father apologizes to the president. (Sean Hannity, 2/22/05)

If France had kept its promise to Colin Powell and enforced the U.N. resolutions on the WMD search in Iraq, there would have been no war. (Bill O’Reilly, 2/22/05)

I trust free people. Let free people make up their own minds about things and you can trust the results, and I said, There are a lot of people in America who don't trust free people to do the right thing. I won't mention a political party; you all know it, and I won't mention the ideology; you all know it. (Rush Limbaugh, 2/22/05)

Certainly President Bush's cuts should be passed. They should be doubled or tripled and then passed -- but they won't be, because the politicians of both parties are but the willing slaves to a public that collectively wants more than it can produce. (Tony Blankley, 2/16/05)

And besides, let he who has never registered with a gay military porn site under a different name cast the first stone. (Jonah Goldberg, 2/14/05)

And yet it is impossible to deny that for all our wealth we still feel the deep anxiety of a people with an enviable income statement but no balance sheet to speak of — profoundly dependent on either the next paycheck or, when the paychecks stop, the government. That anxiety remains a major force in our culture and our politics. It was the root of socialism. Even today it makes the Democratic party possible. No, the reality is worse. It makes the Democratic party necessary, like an overpriced commercial insurance policy for an especially risky venture. (Richard Vigilante, 2/16/05)

If Ward Churchill loses his job teaching at the University of Colorado, he could end up giving Howard Dean a real run for his money to head the Democratic National Committee. (Ann Coulter, "The little Injun that could," 2/11/05)

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