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The Patriot Post Chronicle 9-33
From The Federalist Patriot
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____________________________ "Nazi Germany is a useful historical example of socialism run amok. The genocide and terrorism ultimately practiced by the Nazis were horrible -- that goes without saying. But National Socialism went on for a dozen years, it was the last stage in a progressive nationalization of German society, and there was a lot more to it than genocide and terrorism. It cannot be that because there was genocide and terrorism, the socialist aspects of National Socialism are outside the lines of acceptable political discourse." --columnist Andrew McCarthy
"Now we say goodbye to Robert Novak, who passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. Yet another conservative icon has left us. He was a good friend and an amazing reporter. In fact, I believe he was the best reporter of his generation, which spans all the way back to the Dwight D. Eisenhower years." --economist Lawrence Kudlow
"It took cancer longer than a year to kill Bob Novak, and actually, this was the fifth cancer that tried to kill him. Let that stand as testimony as to how tough this guy was. He was very tough. ...He earned the widely known sobriquet 'The Prince of Darkness,' which was nonsense. He was tough, but he was fair, objective and a thoroughly decent man." --columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell
"One irony of Robert Novak's long and admirable career as a journalist is that he wasn't a curmudgeon, though he played one on TV. In person, he was warm, loyal to friends and especially generous to young writers, even if he was fearless and unsparing toward the public officials he devoted his life to covering -- or, to put it more accurately, uncovering. Novak, who died yesterday at age 78, was among America's greatest political reporters." --The Wall Street Journal
DEZINFORMATSIACat out of the bag: "We've got two problems here. 'We': I should say the administration or Democrats have two problems." --Washington Post editorialist Jonathan Capehart letting slip the Leftmedia's partnership with government
The meaning of cruel: "The cruelty inherent in scaring the elderly to score political points is beyond reprehensible.... The sort of scurrilous campaign they are conducting -- the seditious fear-mongering that is the main staple of their public diet -- is a matter of profound disrespect and incivility toward the individuals whose rights they claim to cherish." --Time magazine's Joe Klein
Horrors!: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally ... wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip.... There are questions about whether this has racial overtones.... White people showing up with guns." --MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, fretting over ObamaCare protesters legally carrying guns, but neglecting to mention the man she described was black
Contract on America: "I was at a town hall yesterday, and I really had to take some people to task. They were using those buzzwords that I don't think people realize all the time, like 'real Americans' or 'give me back my America' was one of the songs or 'take back America.' It was like, what do you mean by that?" --CNN's Don Lemon
Spelling Left relief: "For the third time in five days, Barack Obama used the presidential bully pulpit on behalf of what he's now calling health insurance reform. No more letting the angry opposition control the agenda." --CBS's Martha Teichner
Do not pass "Go": "Let's start by making sure people understand exactly what we're talking about when we say this public option. This is a government-run insurance agency that would give people greater choice, some say break the monopoly held by the private insurers and, thus, drive down costs." --NBC's Matt Lauer (A monopoly is control by one company, not a whole list of companies.)
Defeat capitalism: "We talked to several health care experts today, and they all said if you take out the public option in terms of insurance, there's going to be no restraints on the cost of insurance." --ABC anchorhead Charles Gibson
Except for that thing called the Internet: "An intense period of corporate consolidation over the past 25 years, aided and abetted by deregulation by the Federal Communications Commission, has reduced to a mere handful the sources from which most Americans get their news." --former CBS anchor Dan Rather, who must have entered a time warp back to 1974
