The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Feigning Ignorance

“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.” —former President Barack Obama after the perpetrator’s left-wing “manifesto” was already public

Village Idiot

“Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania — so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” —"comedian" Jimmy Kimmel two days before the third assassination attempt on Trump

Lack of Self-Awareness Award

“People can trust that I’m going to tell them the truth. I’m also not going to bombard them with frivolous stuff.” —Don Lemon, who was fired from CNN

Weird Flex

“I grew up watching ‘The Waltons.’ I grew up with Opie. I even watched ‘The Dukes of Hazzard.’ I think I know a little bit about rural America.” —Virginia State Sen. Lamont Bagby (D)

The Long and Short of It

“The suggestion that the government should buy out and own 90 percent of Spirit Airlines reminds me of something Milton Friedman said: ‘If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.’” —law professor Jonathan Turley

For the Record

“There simply wasn’t enough racism and right-wing extremism to keep the SPLC alive. They had to manufacture it.” —Seth Dillon

Touché

“The fact that I wasn’t funded by the SPLC proves I’m not a Nazi.” —Elon Musk

Re: The Left

“Leftists want to poison the church just like they have poisoned every other institution in America. They poisoned sports, the Boy Scouts, our public schools and our universities. Anything that stands as a bulwark against godless secularism, the Left takes it over and poisons it. They either destroy it or they ‘fundamentally transform’ it into an advocate for their cause.” —Gary Bauer

And Last…

“The Constitution is only as good as the people. And that doesn’t bode well for its survival these days.” —David Harsanyi