I found myself saying "Yeah, right" and "Oh, please" an awful lot this week…

Not-Joe The Not-Plumber, 11/14/08:

"Everyone came at me to write a book. They had dollar signs in their eyes. ‘101 Things Joe the Plumber Knows’ or some stupid s— like that. Excuse me, I am sorry," he said. "You know I will get behind something solid, but I won’t get behind fluff. I won’t cash in, and when people do read the book they will figure out that I didn’t cash in."

‘Cuz if there’s one thing Not-Joe’s not, it’s an opportunist.  Or a plumber.  I’ll come in again.

Dick Morris, 11/14/08:

Hillary is the closest thing we have in America to a European socialist.

[Obama] is representative of the ultimate left of the Democratic party.

Dude.  Less toe-sucking, more reading.

Sarah Palin, 11/13/08:

Palin said that she and her fellow Republican governors were ready to put aside “extreme partisanship” and act if Washington fails to provide the leadership America needs.

She told them not to “let obsessive, extreme partisanship … get in the way of doing what’s right.”

This was the day after she said she was "still concerned" about Obama’s connection to William Ayers, and that "[i]f anybody still wants to talk about it, I will."

Karl Rove, 11/13/08:

Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics? Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.

But what about your great dream of creating a permanent Republican governing majority in Washington?
I never said permanent. Durable.

The turning point in the 2008 election was when the POWs For Truth ran those ads about how John McCain fabricated his entire POW experience.

George W. Bush, 11/12/08:

President George W. Bush said he regrets the display of the "Mission Accomplished” sign….

"To some, it said, well, ‘Bush thinks the war in Iraq is over,’ when I didn’t think that.  It conveyed the wrong message.”

Special bonus whopper: "I want people to know the truth about what it was like sitting in the Oval Office.”

Harry Reid, 11/9/08:

Joe Lieberman is not some right-wing nutcase.  Joe Lieberman is one of the most progressive people ever to come from the state of Connecticut.

He’s in the top two or three million, anyway.

Randy Scheunemann, 11/9/08:

In response to the allegations that she was ill-prepared for interviews and debate, Randy Scheunemann, an aide assigned to Palin, called her "brilliant" and said she has a "photographic memory."

What.

(h/t WT, dakine, TPM, HuffPo)


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