Useful Idiot

“It’s disingenuous to ask about condemning Hamas while Palestinians are the ones being starved now by Israel. … I simply asked and protested the war in Palestine. That’s what I did. That’s my duty as a Palestinian, as a human being right now, is to ask for the stop of the killing in my home country. … Literally 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel.” —Mahmoud Khalil

Theater of the Absurd

“If [Stephen Colbert’s ouster] is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin

“Stephen Colbert is unafraid to, again, speak truth to power. He does it in a very bipartisan way.” —former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller

For the Record I

“Colbert reportedly lost $40 million last year, despite posting the highest late-night ratings of any show not hosted by Fox’s Greg Gutfeld. Forty million dollars in annual losses is a lot of money, whether Colbert or the WNBA. But in the WNBA’s defense, its loss took an entire league. Colbert dropped $40 million all by himself.” —Larry Elder

Deny, Deflect, Distract

“What [DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s] doing is pushing this out into the social media environment and trying to, again, gain some attention and to ingratiate herself with Donald Trump. … The specious — specious — allegations that both she and [CIA Director John] Ratcliffe are making, based on the things that they’re putting out, really are quite concerning and quite dangerous.” —former CIA Director John Brennan

“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.” —Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush

For the Record II

“The brazen fabrication of the Russiagate hoax by the US intelligence community and their media partners for purely political ends (all of which was visible from the start) was and is the only genuine scandal involving Trump and the Kremlin.” —Glenn Greenwald

“[The] Steele dossier was used by Brennan and others to cook the intelligence assessments on the Russia collusion hoax. This really is a major scandal.” —JD Vance

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Hunter Biden is the last person who should be talking about illegal aliens cleaning hotel rooms given what we know he was doing in hotel rooms! For their own health and safety, every cleaning crew should steer clear of any hotels Hunter stays in.” —Gary Bauer

Draining the Swamp, One Spoonful at a Time

“Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs. … The worry, of course, is that Trump kills these programs only to see the next Democrat administration resurrect them like vampires. Maybe. But for now, at least, the vast warehouse of thousands of federal programs — most of which you’ve almost certainly never heard of — is shrinking. They aren’t immortal after all.” —Stephen Moore

Re: The Left

“If you find yourself declaring ‘animals do it’ as a justification for any kind of human choice or behavior, that’s a very good indication that you’re on the wrong side of the argument. Animals cannibalize each other. … They kill and abandon their young. Animals do a lot of things that we should not be emulating.” —Matt Walsh

“For the leftists, democracy is them getting their way, and when they don’t get their way, then the recourse is mobocracy…until they coerce, intimidate, force, threaten, and enact enough violence to have their version of democracy reestablished.” —Allen West