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Madness of King George Award
Winner
 “You could argue that
even the world’s worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They
honestly thought [they] were doing good things for their countries by
suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free
enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading
neighbors, etc....Bush set a new precedent. He came into office with the
attitude of ‘I’m so tired of the public good. What about my good? What
about my rich friends’ good?’”
— Ex-Washington Post sports reporter and Seinfeld writer Peter
Mehlman in a June 20 Huffington Post blog item. [68 points] |
Runners-up:
“Probably there should be a rule against it. But there’s a rule against
murder. If someone had murdered Hitler — a journalist interviewing him
had murdered him — the world would be a better place. I only feel good,
as a citizen, about getting rid of George Bush, who has been the most
destructive president in my lifetime. I certainly don’t regret it.”
— New Yorker magazine writer Mark Singer explaining why he
donated $250 to the liberal “Victory Campaign 2004.” [57]
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“Joe Scarborough did a whole week of panel discussions on whether he
[President Bush] was an idiot....People who were defending him were
saying, ‘Well, he’s just inarticulate.’ But inarticulate doesn’t explain
foreign policy. I mean, it’s not that complicated. The man is a rube. He
is a dolt. He is a yokel on the world stage. He is a Gilligan who cannot
find his ass with two hands. He is a vain half-wit who interrupts one
incoherent sentence with another incoherent sentence. And I hope I’m not
piling on, Jay.”
— HBO’s Bill Maher on NBC’s Tonight Show, Feb. 20. [48]
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“Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing,
needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a
President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man
to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of
the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were
never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like
that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to
come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the
greatest crime of this young century.”
— Keith Olbermann on Bush commuting Lewis Libby’s prison sentence,
MSNBC’s Countdown, July 2. [44]
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