Upright

Columnist Daren Jonescu: “The aim [of progressivism] is to produce the sort of citizen for whom ‘I am human’ no longer essentially means ‘I am free.’  The goal is to degrade your natural perception of freedom to the level of being content with your bowl of rice – or, at the intermediate stage, with your smartphones, music videos, and entitlement programs – purchased with your daughter’s future, your reason, your self-ownership.  That this goal is as close to global achievement as it is today is astonishing – though no more so than the fact that there are still men left who are able to perceive what has been lost, and to mount a resistance.”

The BIG Lie

DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: “It is a real significant distortion to say that hundreds of thousands of people are being cancelled. What’s actually happening is that they are very likely to get a better plan for less money.”

Dezinformatsia

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “The mainstream media, I believe, wants ObamaCare to fail. They look for every negative number they can find. They’re afraid to do a positive story because they’re afraid that somebody might not watch. The media is just cherry-picking the bad facts that are out there, repeating them over and over again, and in many cases, they’re making stuff up.”

Non Compos Mentis

Ambassador Samantha Power: "You know life has changed when you’re hanging out with Jane Fonda backstage. There is no greater embodiment of being outspoken on behalf of what you believe in – and being ‘all in’ in every way – than Jane Fonda. And it’s a huge honor just to even briefly have shared the stage with her.“

Braying Jackass

Rep. Alan Grayson: ”[L]et me do what I probably should do more often – just say thanks. Thank you for the opportunity to serve. Thank you for helping me to promote justice, equality and peace.“

This excerpt was from a fundraising appeal sent by Grayson on Veterans Day. Instead of thanking our veterans, he issued a heartfelt thanks … to his donors.

Alpha Jackass

Barack Obama: ”[I]f you just looked objectively at what the Democratic Party and Democratic senators stand for right now, it’s a lot more aligned with what the American people believe and what they care about then what a small faction of the other party is trying to promote. And I’m confident that there’s going to be an adjustment process where the Republican Party kind of moves back to reason and common sense. … [W]hen they aren’t looking out for the interests of the American people, there are some consequences. And that’s why elections matter. That’s why they count.“

The Demo-gogues

Barack Obama: "Today we can say that … the core of Al-Qaeda’s on the path to defeat, our nation is more secure, and our Homeland is safer.”

(As long as you forget about Benghazi, the Boston Marathon, ad nauseam…)

Village Idiots

Philippines climate commissioner Naderev Saño: “Science tells us that simply, climate change will mean more intense tropical storms. As the Earth warms up, so do the oceans. The energy that is stored in the waters off the Philippines will increase the intensity of typhoons and the trend we now see is that more destructive storms will be the new norm. … What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness. The climate crisis is madness. We can stop this madness. … We can take drastic action now to ensure that we prevent a future where super typhoons are a way of life.”

Short Cuts

Comedian Jay Leno: “President Obama said he is sorry that some Americans have lost their existing health coverage due to Obamacare. I think he’s getting a little desperate. Today he said if you like your complete lack of coverage, you can keep your complete lack of coverage.”