Amnesty International: terrorist group?

Now the problem, as we pointed out last night, is that Amnesty International works with the International Red Cross and the left wing American media to subvert the Bush administration's terror war strategies. Everybody should know that. [...]

But let's stop the nonsense. Amnesty International isn't an objective human rights group. It's a far left outfit that sympathizes with people who kill Americans. That's what it is. The evidence is irrefutable. (Bill O’Reilly, “Talking Points Memo: Amnesty International Declares War on the USA,” Fox News, 5/26/05)

Moonie Times: His and Hers edition

[THURSDAY] By creating a new 60-vote threshold for confirming judicial nominees, today's Senate Democrats have abandoned more than 200 years of Senate tradition. (Former Sen. Bob Dole, "A unique case of obstruction," Washington Times, 5/19/05)

[FRIDAY] While the Democrats cannot plausibly justify overturning more than 200 years of Senate tradition by filibustering the president's judicial nominees, let's also remember it is equally unacceptable to treat these nominees as political pinatas to further this aim. (Current Sen. Elizabeth Dole, "Nominees deserve better," Washington Times, 5/20/05)

[See this week's debunker on judges and the filibuster.]

You can't have life-saving medical research -- for your own good!

"Morality and all that" must be swept aside so that one group of human beings can exploit a class of weaker human beings [stem cells], mere "clumps." It doesn't occur to [Parkinson's-afflicted L.A. Times editor Michael] Kinsley that the very diseased people he thinks this embryo-destroying research will cure are the ones least likely to survive in the dehumanized, self-centered ethos he's advocating to justify it. He throws down the gauntlet and says in his subhead, "Mr. Bush, don't I matter more than tiny clumps of cells?" One day, probably not very long from now, society will say, "No, Mr. Kinsley, you don't. We don't think disabled adults are valuable." And at that point, what principle will protect him? (George Neumayr, "The elite's moral gadfly," American Spectator, 5/24/05)

Torture: it's in the Bible

To Newsweek to Time to ABC to CBS to NBC to The New York Times to The Washington Post, the real threat to America is Christianity. (Rush Limbaugh, “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” 5/17/05 as quoted on MediaMatters.org)

I eat Korans like you for breakfast

Sorry .. I'm not going to get all worked up over allegations from Islamic goons that their precious holy word is being abused.  (Neil Boortz, “Koran Abuse Obsession Continues,” Boortz.com, 5/26/05)

Blacks vote Dem because Dems are racist? Interesting theory

If the share of the black vote that goes to the Democrats ever falls to 70 percent, it may be virtually impossible for the Democrats to win the White House or Congress, because they have long ago lost the white male vote and their support among other groups is eroding. Against that background, it is possible to understand their desperate efforts to keep blacks paranoid, not only about Republicans but about American society in general.

Liberal Democrats, especially, must keep blacks fearful of racism everywhere...

It's "not personal" as they say when they smear someone. It doesn't matter how outstanding or upstanding Justice Brown is. She is a threat to the power that means everything to liberal politicians. The Democrats' dependence on blacks for votes means that they must keep blacks dependent on them.

Black self-reliance would be almost as bad as blacks becoming Republicans, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned. (Thomas Sowell, "Liberals, race, and history," Town Hall, 5/24/05)

Bad omen, coming from "Dow 36,000" author

But while such signs of [real estate] speculation are troubling, there is little solid evidence that a real estate bubble is puffing up. (James Glassman, "Gimme shelter," Town Hall, 5/23/05)