Quote of the Day: Harvey Fierstein on Ender's Game Author

Stolen verbatim from Joe.My.God., because it needs no embellishment.

"Look at that asshole [Orson Scott Card] that wrote this new Harrison Ford movie [Ender's Game]. I think that you can have any opinion you want, but at least be willing to take the consequences of your opinion. It’s like, 'Well, I hope that people will be more understanding,' or what did he say? 'More tolerant of my views.' The quotes that got me about him weren’t against gay marriage -- he wanted homosexuality criminalized in the United States. That's what he called for. You want me to be tolerant of you wanting to criminalize homosexuality? Fuck you on your grave, you piece of shit." - Harvey Fierstein, telling it like it is to the Hollywood Reporter. 

Source: Joe.My.God.

Quote of the Day: The Rude Pundit on "Playing Politics"

This probably doesn't belong under Quote of the Day, because it wasn't today, but it's worth pointing out anyway. Have you noticed that after there is a mass shooting, if anyone dares talk about what might be done to prevent a future occurrence, they're met with, "Now is not the time! Don't play politics with gun control after this awful tragedy!" After Sandy Hook happened, and it felt like there might actually be some meaningful change, parents of slain children who were working toward that change were criticized for "playing politics" and exploiting the deaths of their own children. Wow. Harsh, right? It happens all the time, on a variety of subjects.

Oddly though, the right wing is allowed to play their version of politics. If a mass shooting happens, they are instantly on the defensive, shooting down (heh) any whisper of talk about gun control. Isn't that playing politics? Anyway, that's The Rude Pundit's point, and I should just stop yammering and give it to you:

His royal rudeness, Lee Papa

". . .In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, it was wrong, according to you, to talk about gun control. Now, in the wake of the nightmarish destruction of the Moore tornado, you tell us it's wrong to talk about climate change and it's wrong to say things that mock right-wing responses to other tragedies. We should wait, you say, wait until the bodies are recovered, the bodies are buried, the bodies are mourned. Of course, even when politicians and pundits wait, you then say that they are exploiting a tragedy for political gain. Like 9/11. Oh, wait. That was you, so it doesn't count, of course, sorry, forgot. . ." --The Rude Pundit

Quote of the Day: On Mitt Romney's "Charm Offensive"

Image from Telegraph UK

"Mitt Romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive." 

--Alex Spillius, Daily Telegraph columnist
  and former Washington correspondent

Quote of the Day: Steven Weber on Gun Control Arguments

Image from Huffington Post

"As a culture, we have become so disassociated from reality that we are to the point where even though men, women and children are mowed down in schools, movie theaters and streets by nut jobs with assault weapons, we rush to defend the right to own these absolutely inessential weapons constructed with the sole purpose of shredding human flesh as efficiently as possible, and cite shaky-at-best interpretations of the Second Amendment as justification."

--Steven Weber, Actor and Writer

Source: Huffington Post 

Quote of the Day: The Rude Pundit on Romney at Bain

"So, by extension, Romney is saying that he could be President but not be responsible for what happens to the nation."

--The Rude Pundit

[In response to Mitt Romney's claim that though he was President, CEO, Chairman of the Board and 100% owner, he was not in charge.]

In Case You Missed It: Romney Loves America

The mind wobbles. . .

"I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love."

 Source: TownHall

Randi Rhodes on Austerity and Irony

"The irony is that conservatives are spending millions and millions of dollars... in the name of austerity. No amount of spending is too much to put an end to wasteful spending!"


--Radio host, Randi Rhodes

Quote of the Day: Carrie Shores on "Homophobia"

"I hate the word homophobia. It is not a phobia. You are not scared. You are just an asshole."

--Carrie Shores (daughter of Sordid Lives creator, Del Shores)

Quote of the Day: Dana Gould on the GOP

 "[The Republican Party] is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off." 

--Dana Gould on The Stephanie Miller Show

Conservative Word of the Day: "Thug"

Why "thug?" Here's why. . .

She's not wrong.

"If you turned on Fox News today, you’ll see the word “thug” repeated so often that you’ll think you’re watching a gangsta rap retrospective on MTV2. Between Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Karl Rove, the rightwing echo machine is throwing the word “thug” around more than Tupac, Biggie, and Trick Daddy rolled into one. 

From RandiRhodes.com

Why “thug”? Because terms like “bully” just don’t have that extra zing of racism that the rightwing wants. The way they’re using “thug,” it’s a racial slur, and a vicious one at that. They shouldn’t even be allowed to say the word “thug” out loud. It should be called the “T-word.” And when Karl Rove uses the term, it definitely becomes a racial slur. Of course, that’s true of an awful lot of words." 

-- Randi Rhodes

Quote of the Day: Randi Rhodes on the Hawaii GOP Caucus

 "Hawaii holds its Republican caucuses today. Boy, there’s a jarring juxtaposition! You’re in paradise... and you’re at a Republican caucus. That’s like getting a root canal while you’re sitting in a Jacuzzi." 

--Radio goddess, Randi Rhodes

Quote of the Day: Randi Rhodes on Sarah Palin

Image found at Greg in Hollywood

"Sarah Palin is a paid political commentator on Fox News. She gets money for giving her opinion. That would be like paying Betty White to help you move a piano."
-- Radio Goddess, Randi Rhodes

Notable Quotable: Randi Rhodes on Ann Coulter and Black People

"Ann Coulter says “our blacks are better than their blacks.” I don’t think so. And if it seems that way, it’s only because Republicans have so few blacks that they can lavish extra care and attention on them. It’s true. Take a look at Republican Allen West—every hair in place, all of his clothing immaculately pressed. Then take a look at Cornell West. He always looks like he rode to the interview on the roof of the car. So yes, their blacks might win the evening gown competition. But when it comes down to the part where they have to answer questions, our blacks come out on top." 

--Randi Rhodes, RandiRhodes.com

Notable Quoteable: Randi Rhodes on Michele Bachmann

On Michele Bachmann's belief that we should be staying in Iraq.

"It seems Michele thinks that once you make a terrible mistake, you should just stick with it... kind of like her marriage to Marcus."

--Radio host, Randi Rhodes

Source: RandiRhodes.com

Notable Quotable: Randi Rhodes on Newt Gingrich's Collapse

I made this image myself when Randi returned to radio
after a long absence. Very cool to find it on her site!

"Yesterday, all of Newt Gingrich’s top advisors got together and resigned. It was the first coordinated thing the Gingrich campaign has done. Now Newt’s future is almost as questionable as his past. It seems that Gingrich’s campaign aides didn’t want to be associated with a disastrous failure, which begs the question of why they signed up with Newt Gingrich in the first place. . ."

Read more at: RandiRhodes.com

Quote of the Day: Steven Weber on Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally

". . .That the Glenn Beck rally, as seen from space, looked like a beige version of the gulf oil spill is just a commie plot."

via Huffington Post

Quote of the Day

Found at Voenix Rising. . .

“And just in case anyone at the DNC is listening, if the national Democratic Party ever wants a minute of my time, a joule of my energy, a dime of my money or a deibold of my vote again, the request had better arrive on my doorstep pinned to Joe Lieberman’s pike-transfixed head and wrapped in an open letter from the President of these United States in which he refers to the GOP as the 'flesh eating virus of democracy,' Fox news as 'Reich-kibble for the cognitively-impaired' and the national press as 'meth-tweaked lemmings.'”

— d r i f t g l a s s

Quote of the Day: Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

"Can't wait to see how long it takes before some ultra-right lunatic whines that Obama shouldn't be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he's bombing the moon."

--Robbie at Joe.My.God

Quote of the Day: On Trusting Glenn Beck

OK, so I'm surfing around on the 'net, and I land on the opinion blog of The Dallas Morning News. The topic was Glenn Beck's most recent paranoid fantasy about the Rockefellers and art. It's weird, and you can watch the video below, if you so choose. Anyway, the blog post was short, but interesting. But it was the comments section I found the most entertaining, with Beck defenders and--surprisingly for Texas--Beck deriders as well. One of the comments provided my first genuine belly laugh of the day. The entire quote is below, with the best bits in bold.

[Excerpt]

Glenn Beck, conspiracy nut



How on earth did this crackpot get a national TV show? Watch this amazing eight-minute monologue in which Glenn Beck interprets public art, and ties together the Rockefellers, communism, fascism, corporatism, the United Nations and the Obama White House together in a grand conspiracy. If this were in a movie, you wouldn't believe it. But this is on national TV, on Fox News, every weeknight. . .

And now, the comment that got me going. . .

Posted by Bill Marvel @ 6:55 PM Fri, Sep 18, 2009

An astonishing performance.

History for those who won't bother to read, art appreciation for those who won't bother to look.

I don't know anything about Beck's ACORN reportage, because I don't watch him. And this performance doesn't give me any reason to start. But if his history of "Rockefeller" -- he doesn't say whether he means the old man or Junior, or even that he knows the difference -- the Progressive movement, Fascism, Leninism, and recent art and architecture are any indication, I wouldn't trust him to honestly report on the contents of his shirt pocket.

This sounds like an essay test written at the last minute by a dim but superficially glib student who's been sleeping all semester.

Source: Dallas Morning News