March 16, 2022

Wednesday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Max Eden, Gerard Baker, Juan Williams, Susan Glasser, and more.

Insight

“All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.” —Sun Tzu (c.500-320 B.C.)

For the Record

“Many parents haven’t heard of a Florida bill by the name of ‘Parental Rights in Education.’ But parents who follow the national news — or tune into ‘Saturday Night Live’ — have heard of this bill by a different name: The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. This fake-naming was an unprecedented propaganda ploy. Never before has virtually the entire corporate media instantaneously united to affix a partisan-manufactured epithet-name on a state legislative proposal. … In an era of seemingly infinite political stupidity, it’s difficult to think of anything more politically idiotic — not to mention morally dubious — than Democratic legislators skipping down the state capitol hallway shouting ‘Gay!’ to protest a bill that defers sex-talk with kids until…fourth grade.” —Max Eden

“I’m fine with people displaying the Ukrainian flag in solidarity. But if you celebrate kneeling for the national anthem and dislike the American flag and now you’re posting the Ukrainian flag and declaring those you disagree with traitors, I have questions.” —Ben Shapiro

Re: The BIG Lie

“The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin. It has nothing to do with the American Rescue Plan.” —Joe Biden

“Fact-check: ‘Current spike’ may be partly correct, but the problem is that Biden enabled Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, so the blame for that spike immediately comes full circle. As for Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan, that was $1.9 trillion in taxpayer-funded graft to fill a $300 billion economic hole created by the ChiCom Virus pandemic. The remaining $1.6 trillion is indisputably a major factor in the inflation now crushing family budgets.” —Mark Alexander

“Nobody buys Democrats’ efforts to blame 14 months of failed policies on three weeks of crisis in Europe. Inflation and gas prices were skyrocketing and hurting families long before late last month. The White House needs to stop trying to deny their mistakes and start fixing them.” —Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell

“Even by the high standards of political mendacity, the attempt by President Biden … to assign blame for the acceleration of prices that began just over a year ago to a war that began just under three weeks ago is remarkable for its cynicism, its dishonesty and its desperation. The cynicism is so sweeping that you have to sit back and marvel. … The Democrats know time is rapidly running out. The depletion of their excuses is proceeding much more quickly than the depletion of U.S. energy supplies. Those responsible should pay a political price as punishing as the inflation Americans are enduring.” —Gerard Baker

“I’m really surprised they even tried [to blame Putin]. Gas prices and all other prices were soaring before this conflict broke out. They can’t possibly believe that people didn’t notice that.” —Brit Hume

A Trip Down Memory Lane

“When somebody is President of the United States, the responsibility is total.” —Joe Biden, April 15, 2020

Never Ready for Primetime

“The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance.” —Kamala Harris

Non Compos Mentis Award

“The United States definitely does not want China to pick sides here and pick the wrong side, the side of repression and communism. I mean that’s clearly not in the U.S. interests.” —Juan Williams, who apparently has not heard that China is a repressive communist regime

Persona Non Grata

“Please spare a thought today for the courageous journalists, Ukrainian and foreign, risking their lives to tell the world the story of this hell war.” —The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, March 13

“What a tragedy. A cameraman died covering the war for a TV network that airs a pro-Putin propagandist as its top-rated primetime host.” —Susan Glasser, March 15

Famous Last Words

“I don’t think [CRT] should be taught in our schools.” —Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke (“Wow, look at that! It’s amazing how you can be pseudo-conservative the moment you’re running for one of America’s most Constitutionally-friendly states.” —Jesse James)

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