Now online: the June 29 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, reporters cheer the Supreme Court ruling which saved ObamaCare from its own sloppiness, with ABC's Terry Moran enthusing: "'ObamaCare 2, conservatives 0' is the score right now," while NBC's newly-elevated anchor Lester Holt trumpets how "so many families" say the government takeover of health care has been "quite literally a lifesaver."
And, Rolling Stone smears the GOP as stoking violence against African Americans: "The Republican Party has weaponized its supporters [and] made violence a virtue." Highlights are posted below; the entire issue is posted online with four videos and 19 quotes at www.MRC.org.
Hurray for the Court! “ObamaCare 2, Conservatives 0!”
“‘ObamaCare 2, conservatives 0’ is the score right now. This is the second huge challenge trying to tear down the Affordable Care Act using the Supreme Court, and once again its Chief Justice, John Roberts, crushing the hopes of conservatives....Chief Justice John Roberts, a very staunchly conservative Chief Justice — he’s been very conservative on affirmative action, and on other matters — for the second time, rescuing a liberal President’s signature legislative accomplishment.”
— ABC News correspondent Terry Moran during live coverage of the Supreme Court ruling, June 25.
NBC Trumpets the Wonders of ObamaCare: “Quite Literally a Lifesaver”
“Across the country, over ten million people have now signed up for health insurance under the ObamaCare law as the number of Americans without insurance creeps lower. It’s a result a lot of people didn’t expect after that rocky rollout. The ObamaCare law now directly affecting so many families who say it’s been quite literally a lifesaver.”
— NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, June 25.
The Easiest Interview of Obama’s Presidency
Correspondent Jerry Penacoli: “Today, my chance to thank the President for the Affordable Care Act. [to Obama] You pretty much saved my finances and my life.”
President Obama: “One of the goals for the Affordable Care Act was not just to help people get insurance who didn’t have it, it was to give better protections for people who already had insurance.”
Penacoli: “I think a lot of people don’t understand that....This has nothing, for me, to do with politics. I’m just letting you know–”
Obama: “That it made a difference in your life.”
Penacoli: “That it made a difference in my life.”
— Exchange on the syndicated celebrity news show Extra, June 11.
AP: No “Deliberately Provocative” Photos — Unless They’re Anti-Cruz
— Associated Press director of media relations Paul Colford in a statement quoted by Politico June 21.
“It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.”
— Colford in a January 7 statement to Buzzfeed News, explaining why the Associated Press would not distribute images of the Charlie Hebdo magazine which included cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
Rolling Stone Smears: Republicans Have Made a “Virtue” of Anti-Black Violence
“The fact is, this [the Charleston church shooting] is political because American movement conservatism has already made these kinds of killings political. The Republican Party has weaponized its supporters, made violence a virtue and, with almost every pronouncement for 50 years, given them an enemy politicized, racialized and indivisible....Black people are the engine of the Democratic Party, which is the engine of bad government, which is the engine of illegitimate oppression. They are part of a vast national criminal enterprise — against which our founders gave us a special amendment as a lethal and liberating tool. To kill them is an act of rebellion, the hunting down of the criminal and the freeing of yourself and the just.”
— Rolling Stone contributor Jeb Lund in a June 19 Web piece.
Race Fraud Rachel Dolezal = More Black than Clarence Thomas
“Those of us who talk about race as a social construct, that’s — it’s more complicated. Bill Clinton is the first black president, though he didn’t claim he was black. It means that she may not be African-American, but she certainly could be black in a cultural sense. She’s taking on the ideas, the identities, the struggles. She’s identified with them. I bet a lot more black people would support Rachel Dolezal than would support, say, Clarence Thomas.”
— MSNBC contributor and fill-in host Michael Eric Dyson on The Ed Show, June 15, talking about the ex-NAACP leader in Spokane who lied about being black.
Hitting George On His Clintonian Conflict of Interest
Co-host George Stephanopoulos: “How about Hillary Clinton?”
Presidential candidate Donald Trump: “What Hillary has gotten with the e-mails is, to me, scandalous. She gets a — of course, you shouldn’t be talking to me about that, in all fairness. You shouldn’t be asking me those questions, but I don’t mind.”
— Interview shown on ABC’s Good Morning America, June 17.
It’s “Courageous and Brave” to Attack the Police?
“An operation like this, it’s now spanned 18 miles. It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters, and now you have this scene, this standoff. So you believe these are the hallmarks of more than one person’s involvement?”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Fredricka Whitfield to legal analyst Philip Holloway, June 13, talking a man who earlier that day shot at the Dallas police headquarters. Whitfield apologized the next day: “I misspoke and in no way believe the gunman was courageous nor brave.”
Washington Redskins Team Name as Awful as the Confederate Flag
— Ex-MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann on his ESPN program Olbermann, June 24.
Can We Blame Church Massacre on Fox News?
“We can never know why someone snaps, but I bet you I know where he got his news....I wouldn’t say we should be droning Fox News, but we did drone [al Qaeda leader] Anwar al-Awlaki because he inspired people.”
— Host Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time, June 19, talking about church shooting suspect Dylann Roof.
To read the entire June 29 edition of Notable Quotables, please visit www.MRC.org.
