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Quotes of the Day

June 14, 2010 - 10:39 pm - by Ed Driscoll

Starting with the flashbacks of the day:

Every appearance by a top Republican official or candidate should be recorded. Every one of them.All it takes is one “Macaca” incident to transform a race or create one where one didn’t exist. As the Montana incident blogged earlier today showed, a video can knock out prospective candidates before they even enter.

And this is no longer about finding one big blunder to put on a campaign commercial. It’s about using video and (free) technologies like YouTube to build narratives about opponents, using their own words, at their own events.

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– Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos, from May of 2007.

Related:

Liberals are geniuses at unleashing social panics because A) it never occurs to them that their motives are anything but pure and B) because they are almost exclusively focused on short term tactics. And yet they are invariably shocked when these moral frenzies come back to bite them.

– Jonah Goldberg, October, 2006.

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“The Republican challenger that you just decided to give money to is named Renee Ellmers.”

– Moe Lane, today.

Update: “We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.”

– Kenneth Minogue, the New Criterion, June 2010.

Update: Welcome readers of Jim Treacher from Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, plus Red State, Moe Lane, and Cold Fury.

Late Update: El Rushbo adds, “if a United States soldier had done to a murderous terrorist what Bob Etheridge did to this student, he would be facing a court-martial.”

Filed under: Liberal Fascism, The Memory Hole, The New Puritans, The Return of the Primitive

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5 Comments, 4 Threads, 6 Trackbacks

  1. 1. Leslie Bates

    It is entertaining to witness the enemy combat engineer being blown up by his own demolition charge.

    – Some Bard

    June 15, 2010 - 12:36 am   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. John

    In the mind of liberals, ambush journalism against Republicans is OK because they deserve it. In contrast, the motives of almost all Democrats are so pure and noble, that it’s completely unfair to take one brief moment of being goaded into anger as any sort of example of how they really feel about being questioned on their congressional votes or beliefs. Totally hypocritical, but to them, when the other side is pure evil, hypocrisy is justified.

    June 15, 2010 - 6:00 am   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. LarryW

    A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
    Harry S. Truman
    My favourite!

    June 15, 2010 - 12:21 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Ritchie

    If he had grabbed me like that, he’d be picking his congressional cajones up off the sidewalk!

    June 16, 2010 - 7:14 am   Link to this Comment