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The absolute worst quotes of the year from the New York Times, including:
These may be some of the last few weeks or months in which to enjoy what is left of our beleaguered, dying republic and way of life.
You know, I would have disagreed with the NYT up to about five minutes ago. Then I read about this monstrosity. It’s in New York City. Now I can never go back there.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 20 at 09:20 PM • permalinkThose fucking idiots who say these sorts of things while living in the West deserve to go to some dictatorship. Then they will see it was their mistake to have said it in the first place.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 12 20 at 09:25 PM • permalinkFrom the newspaper doing its best to kill it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 20 at 09:48 PM • permalinkBtw, some of you smarter folk might help here with a question.
How long has it been since the US was, actually, a republic?... in any real sense, other than name, of course.
I would guess the end of the repulic began with the civil war and was finished by LBJ’s great socialist experiment, how far off the mark am I?
Shane Warne’s retirement is hurting the NYT too.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 10:10 PM • permalink“George Clooney in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ made a well-crafted look at a time in American history when anything less than complete fealty to the republic was seen as treason, which sounds familiar to some moviegoers.”—From David Carr’s Oscar predictions, March 3.
What a self pitying twat. people voice different opinions to mine so my dissent is being crushed.
These people really do believe if the populace don’t simply tow the elite line then they are oppressing the elites. Oh and the movie he is reviewing is historical bunkum.
“The problem is that most of those Girl Scout cookies have trans fatty acids. Those are the worst kind of fat, killing far more Americans than Al Qaeda manages to.”
What a completely irresponsible thing for the NYT to divulge. What if jihadists and the Mullahs read this and start to develop trans fatty bombs? We’re cooked.
Hahah. Very good. I love this bit:
But it does have Mao—a kind of George Washington, James Dean and Che Guevara wrapped in one; a historic and pop figure who continues to be hip and fashionable
You can rely on leftists to fawn over any backwards dictator.
But my real favourite is this one:
“Breaking a Travel Stereotype—Women, Minorities and Gays Make Business Trips, Too.”—Headline to Michael Luongo’s May 23 Business story.
That takes ‘World ends; women and minorities affected’ style headlines to new hights of sillyness.
“Breaking a Travel Stereotype—Women, Minorities and Gays Make Business Trips, Too.”
Read all about it! Black lesbian flies on plane!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 10:40 PM • permalinkYou know, I would have disagreed with the NYT up to about five minutes ago. Then I read about this monstrosity. It’s in New York City. Now I can never go back there.
I’ve been around. Traveled most of the U.S. Spent a month in Europe. The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, has a urinal in the men’s room that is just a stone tiled, open area, with a floor that slopes to the drain. Guys just walk up, unzip, and let go. For a farm boy from the Great Midwest, that was somewhat bizarre.
But, this!? This Charmin Chithouse in NY is beyond bizarre. I didn’t follow the link, but if the quote references this blot on the human landscape, I can agree with Andrea.
We are living in the end days!
Lots of good quotes. But for sheer bone-headed, casandra-like, orgiastic dystopianism, it’s hard to beat the one Tim cited in his post. One can’t help but think that these folks live lives of such stultifying, inexplicable ignorance and mind-numbing, spiritual sterility that escapist fantasy is the only thing standing between them and the window ledge.
Here’s a quote I never wanted to hear:
(In best Bill Lawrie voice)
Warnie’s gooooooooonnnnnnnnneeeeeePosted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 20 at 11:02 PM • permalinkI just had to rewrite the one about the 1950s woman’s role.
“The portrait painted is chilling. For a typical woman of the 2000’s, even a college-educated one, life centers on career and paying for expensive child care, private school fees, and generally keeping up appearances. Hardly having time for the family, she daily commutes to and from the city. Having been told by a clutch of feminists that she must have a career in order to have self-respect, she is now climbing the corporate ladder in search of the vaunted “you can have it all” Nirvana. In her spare time she prepares for the next bout of work, taking her clothes to the cleaners, shopping, issuing instructions to the kids and husband. There is nobody to keep her dinner warm till she comes wearily home from downtown, as hubby gets home even later than she does.”#23
‘Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was’
Hebrew proverbPosted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 11:10 PM • permalink#2, 21—A public restroom facility sponsored by a brand of toilet paper is a cause to never visit NYC again? A blot on the human landscape?
Good god!
The story that Andrea linked to is just a bit more than obsessive about peeing and crapping—but then blogger Sheila O’Malley is some kind of actor-wanabee, so the over-the-top writing is standard form.
I attended a Yale-Cornell football game in Ithaca, in the ‘60s, and the “men’s room” was a surplus Army tent with a ditch inside. I’d say the Charmin’ Chithouse is rather an improvement.
Cheers
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it’s the rights of immigrants to start a new life, or the rights of gays to marry, or the rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight relentlessly for every gain. You weren’t. But you are. And for that, I’m sorry.”—From New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Do tell how us was IT is supposed to be Arty?
These may be some of the last few weeks or months in which to enjoy what is left of our beleaguered, dying republic and way of life.
If the above comes to be, how ever will you sell your print rag, Arty?
#21 Rinardman.
Man I wouldn’t have been able to use that. What the hell do you aim at? Someone elses shoes?
It reminds me of the time I went into a men’s urinal in a Cafe/bar in Cairns, North Queensland.
The urinal was the wall with a drain at the bottom. The catch was that the entire wall, foor to ceiling, wall to wall, was one way glass. You pissed against the glass.
And what was on the outside? The cafe courtyard with tables of oblivious diners sitting inches away! All they could see was a large mirror.
Talk about stage fright.
Maybe some FNQld reader can remember the name of the joint. It was on the Esplanade.
.15 Paco
“It’s like listening in on the roiling murmur of conversation during finger-painting class at the asylum.”
Thats all very well until you work out what they are painting with. 15 shades of shit is still shit.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 12 20 at 11:34 PM • permalinkIn a review discussing Tony Bennett’s and Frank Sinatra’s careers…
“Following a similar arc, the country grew from a nation of hungry dreamers fleeing the Depression and fighting ‘the good war’ into an arrogant empire drunk on power and angry at the failure of the American dream to bring utopia.”
Not exactly my memory of the ‘50s and ‘60s…
BTW, Slublog, linked to above, is a good ‘un. Oh, it might not please Joseph Rago , but I like it.
#27 Forbes A public restroom facility sponsored by a brand of toilet paper is a cause to never visit NYC again? A blot on the human landscape?
Good god!
I see you inhabit NYC, so I guess you see “attractions” like the Charmin Chithouse every day, and think it normal.
Maybe in what passes for the real world in NYC, but not for the real world as the rest of us know it.It’s a matter of perspective. We’re on the outside looking in, you’re immersed in it.
One can’t help but think that these folks live lives of such stultifying, inexplicable ignorance and mind-numbing, spiritual sterility that escapist fantasy is the only thing standing between them and the window ledge.
As my grandpa likes to quip: “Yesterday we might have stood at the abyss, but today we’re already a step further.”
(Might work better in German, sue me.)
These may be some of the last few weeks or months in which to enjoy what is left of our beleaguered, dying republic and way of life.
The worst part is, this quote is from the NYT recipe for polenta pancakes.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 12 21 at 12:07 AM • permalinkPaco, Joseph Rago feels his pedestal shaking I believe. Only very slightly for now, but he’s going to hate the maintenance costs as it gets older.
By the way, the article by Pat Conroy you posted a few threads back - ooooooh there should be a lot more of that!
Believe me that got forwarded on to friends.
“New York Times”
I wouldn’t wipe my ass with that rag, much less read it.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 12:16 AM • permalinkOT But the SMH is quoting blogs for this news story about that ferrari in Perth. Good yarn.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 21 at 12:25 AM • permalink#5 Habib
Hyperbole in hyperdrive.
They over-revved it and threw a rod.
Either that or the Old Grey Lady is just plain senile.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 21 at 02:15 AM • permalinkBah, I don’t see what’s so bad about most of these quotes. OK, we all know the NYT is somewhat left-leaning, even though they insist they aren’t. OK they love blaming Israel and hate Bush. So what? Everyone hates Bush including me, and I’m more right-wing than Ayn Rand. In fact I would say that Bush’s support base has diminished to this tiny niche of confused rednecks who really don’t know what they believe in - he’s certainly alienated anyone with any consistent left OR right-wing ideology that I’m aware of.
I don’t see the reason for all these whoops of exaltation. The quotes are par for the course. And the people left looking like the real idiots are the obsessive nutcases who actually bothered to compile this list.
#50 the most interesting comments regarding ‘the Mike Hudson incident’ on jack’s blog are these:
Humm… I’m going to base my standing on this issue on one salient point: Tim Blair Barracks for Collingwood.
Right, it is an undeniable fact that Collingwood supporters have faulty DNA, much that same as those poor unfortunates who have Down Syndrome. This genetic shortcoming makes Collingwood supporters morons one and all. (Sorry I don�t wish to paint Down Syndrome Sufferers with the Collingwood brush. I�m just pointing out why Collingwood supporters are the way they are and comparing it to a situation others my be more familiar with)
So now we have irrefutable proof that Tim Blair is a drooling moron. Now what would you say about a person that tries to take up an argument with such an evolutionary throw back? They aren�t much better.
Important rule of football following, never argue with a Collingwood supporter because if they loose the argument they will just blame the umpire.
Tim Blair should put his false teeth and sit down and shut up, and Mike Hudson should shut up until he knows what he is dealing with. Which by reading the evidence at hand, is a long way off!!!
Posted by: Chris H at December 21, 2006 10:07 AMRight, it is an undeniable fact that Collingwood supporters have faulty DNA
Finally - we are basing our opinions on fact rather than opinion. The genetic inferiority of Collingwood supporters cannot be questioned and in fact, some Melbourne supporters (with the superior Blue Blood DNA) have met Collingwood supporters when representing them in court - and confirm this evidence.
Even Essendon supporters, who have a variant of the Collingwood DNA that allows them to read, would support this fact.
Posted by: Geej at December 21, 2006 11:03 AMJust as well for me that Andrea gets to decide who gets banned or not.
Everyone hates Bush including me
Um—thanks for speaking for all of humanity, hkstar! For the record I’d just like to state that (looks around carefully to see that there are no old ladies or small children about) I don’t hate George Bush. In fact, I kind of like him.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 07:07 AM • permalinkForbes: I get the feeling that you yearn to be applauded every time you have a successful bathroom visit.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 07:15 AM • permalinkForbes: I get the feeling that you yearn to be applauded every time you have a successful bathroom visit.
Ya know, it’s not the applause that would get to me. It’s the fear they’d stop someday.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 12 21 at 08:40 AM • permalinkWouldn’t you hate to get bad marks on your bathroom activities? I can see it now: you leave the lavatory to be confronted by silent, frowning faces… “Mr. Crawford, we are sorry to inform you that your bowel movements were unsatisfactory. Please go with our Correction Team at once.” Sturdy, serious men in shining blue and white uniforms (and white latex gloves) surround you…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 09:39 AM • permalink#34 PW: that works fine in English, too.
#54: Hkstar, what are you smoking? “I’m more right-wing than Ayn Rand.” Considering that there are some well-known disputes concerning Rand’s appropriate place on the political spectrum, I’d say your direction-finder is not necessarily reliable. “In fact I would say that Bush’s support base has diminished to this tiny niche of confused rednecks who really don’t know what they believe in”. Here’s a suggestion: walk into any bar in the Southern United States and make that comment; you will be amazed at the alacrity with which the rednecks move in an effort to elucidate their beliefs to you. “OK, we all know the NYT is somewhat left-leaning”; that’s like the “being a little bit pregnant” gag.
I think Six Flags Over the Toilet Bowl is a wonderful idea. You know the George Costanzas of the world would relish the opportunity to crap in a clean, friendly environment without having to resort to subterfuge about TPS Reports to gain access. And I sincerely doubt that the employees cheer the successful eliminators. I want independent confirmation on that.
As far as the NYT goes, once you throw away the “analysis”, “wire reports” and “editorials”, it has an excellent crossword puzzle and comprehensive classified ads.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 12 21 at 10:50 AM • permalinkI would guess the end of the repulic began with the civil war and was finished by LBJ’s great socialist experiment, how far off the mark am I?
I count the popular election of Senators as a major landmark, because that is what removed the only structural protection for federalism.
The collapse of the Supreme Court as a bulwark against the Total State during FDR’s term finishes it off for me. LBJ was just a footnote to FDR.
I hope Neil MacFarquhar brushed his teeth after servicing Hassan Nasrallah with this:
“Now there is Sheik Nasrallah, a 46-year-old Lebanese militia chieftain hiding in a bunker, combining the scripted logic of a clergyman with the steely resolve of a general to completely rewrite the rules of the Arab-Israeli land feud….The name instantly reminds everyone of his personal credibility and commitment to the fight.”
Well, that was a real tiptoe through the sewage farm. Missed this one the first time around:
“The portrait [feminist Betty Friedman] painted was chilling. For a typical woman of the 1950’s, even a college-educated one, life centered almost exclusively on chores and children. She cooked and baked and bandaged and chauffeured and laundered and sewed. She did the mopping and the marketing and took her husband’s gray flannel suit to the cleaners. She was happy to keep his dinner warm till he came wearily home from downtown.” —From Margalit Fox’s February 6 obituary for left-wing feminist Betty Friedan.
My mother was a “typical woman of the 1950’s” and she did all those things (well, except keeping dinner warm—she and Dad had cocktail hour every evening and then we ate together as a family—fairly typical for my time and place). She also was a Cub Scout den mother, delivered meals-on-wheels, was active in PTA and the hospital auxiliary and frequently volunteered to chaperone school field trips (didn’t care for that one much).
Since I’ve retired and had more time for community service, I’ve discovered that the stay-at-home mom is still the backbone of the community.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 11:56 AM • permalink#62—I count the popular election of Senators as a major landmark…
Amen to that, RC. What a monster the 17th Amendment created. It’s the one Amendment I would repeal in a NY minute.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 12:03 PM • permalinkI like George Bush, too. But, I gotta tell ya, for a while now he’s really been pissing me off.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 12:14 PM • permalinkHad to look that one up, yojimbo, but you’re right! LOL
As much as I’d like to see us go to a federal so-called “fair tax”, flat tax or consumption tax, I wouldn’t agree to any of it unless and until the 16th was repealed. Because you know what would happen down the road.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 21 at 01:35 PM • permalink“I don’t hate George Bush. In fact, I kind of like him.”
Me too. For a liberal, he’s not too bad.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 01:49 PM • permalinkHell, I even like Tony Blair (a little), and he’s a freaking socialist.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 01:51 PM • permalink“I’m more right-wing than Ayn Rand.”
Where, exactly on the political spectrum do you place a libertarian fascist?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 21 at 03:00 PM • permalink#66 Kyda Sylvester -
I like George Bush, too. But, I gotta tell ya, for a while now he’s really been pissing me off.
If by that you mean he going wobbly since the November elections, I quite agree.Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 21 at 03:50 PM • permalink#39—Well, the Charmin’ Chithouse is in Times Square, a freakhouse of “attractions” if ever there were one. And a place any sane New Yorker—if there are any left—avoids as if their life depended on it. Can you say tourist trap?
BTW, what do free public rest room facilities look like in the real world?
(Clean is not the first thought that comes to mind.)
#57—If I had the ego of a wannabe actor, of course I’d assume the applause was for my performance, but then you’d have to literally believe that over-the-top description of a public toilet. Which I don’t.
#17:
But it does have Mao—a kind of George Washington, James Dean and Che Guevara wrapped in one; a historic and pop figure who continues to be hip and fashionable
You can rely on leftists to fawn over any backwards dictator.Until he passed away earlier this year, you could have asked one of my wife’s uncles about that. He lived under Mao for several decades.
Chinese born in L.A., after graduating from medical school in 1949, he moved to China to help the country recover from WW2. He got to see it all close up.
As a physician, forced to abandon western medical techniques for peasant herbal remedies. Forced out into the countryside because he was “unreliable”, what with a western education and all.
Seeing the Red Guards, the Cultural Revolution (complete with cannibalism), various Great Leaps Forward, etc etc etc.
He managed to get out, without most of his family, in 1977.
The only people who worship Mao never had to live under him and his thugs.
“These may be some of the last few weeks or months in which to enjoy what is left of our beleaguered, dying republic and way of life.”
I’ve heard leftys moan about how their way of life is dying before.
It usually means that their welfare benefits have been cut off.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 07:40 PM • permalink#75, davo:
Author Oscar Van den Boogaard
coping with the islamization of Europe is a process of mourning.
“I am not a warrior,but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”That may just be the one serious wrong we (the US) did to western europe. We never forced them to sacrifice anything of their own or pushed them to cut into their comfort zone in any real meaningful way in the decades of defending them from the Soviets.
They grew up under the incompetent belief that freedom from aggression was a natural condition.
Careful, folks—lefties (and fake “righties” who are really lefties) interpret remarks like “I kind of like George Bush but he has gone wobbly and is kind of pissing me off” as meaning you all have little shrines to the Great God Dubya with candles lit in front of his photograph, etc. In the unstable world of leftard “progressive” politics there is no such thing as disagreeing with someone while not feeling intense, even hysterical, antipathy towards that person.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 21 at 11:03 PM • permalink
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