Horrible Quotes In 2013

“Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.” 

Thomas Friedman.

Intellectual extraordinaire.

Linking domestic terrorism to the environment via a carbon tax.

Sah-weet. 

Meh.

Sounds like something Justin Trudeau would say.

Bad (liberal) quotes of the year.

And there are some doozies.

Too many, really. I mean, you got Oliver Stone, Michael Moore and this chooch Bill Maher:

"This has become a kind of conventional wisdom — that the Republican Party has gone so far right, Reagan himself wouldn’t fit in....Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race-baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people’s taxes in half, had an incurable case for the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Sounds to me like he would fit in just fine....Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.”

Yes. Because the 1970s never happened.  

Jesus. Christ. Did he really just pick ONE person responsible for a decline of a nation? Wow. Someone needs to read up on his Roman history. I assume Maher does little reading - and if he does he somehow manages to miss the point.

Anyway.  No excuse for this piece of ignorant trash. There's plenty of information about the 1970s.

Last, as for Martin Bashir's own historical retardation, Sarah Palin is right. Excessive debt IS slavery. It's a term we used in the financial world all the time. The general point being you work to pay your loans and/or credit cards - your metaphorical masters.