Upright

“I think it unnecessarily politicizes a game that traditionally has brought Americans together and it represents a capitulation of the NFL to the most radical elements in our society. It is divisive and it has no place in sports. And when you think about sports and football in particular, that has been an area for blacks where you had a meritocracy, that black players have been pretty successful. And this is something that will drive away supporters and it does nothing to unite our nation.” —Dr. Carol Swain on playing the so-called Black National Anthem at NFL games

For the Record

“To hear Joe Biden tell it, he single-handedly cut the annual deficit by a record amount while also preventing Republicans from increasing the deficit by … demanding spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Or something. If you’re confused, join the club.” —Nate Jackson

“Just to be clear, the Biden Administration watched this communist Chinese spy balloon take off, tracked it all the way across the Pacific, over Alaska, into Canada and then allowed it to travel all the way across the country. This almost looks like a joint venture between Beijing and Washington. The only thing that could have made it any worse is if Biden had allowed communist Chinese jets to escort the spy balloon!” —Gary Bauer

“To be fair, Biden is providing is powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade America….” —Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Dumb & Dumber

“Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry … a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. … Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just saying what the facts are. Google it.” —CNN’s Don Lemon

“We are owned by guns. And therefore there is only one way to stop the mass shootings. It is to suffocate the businesses that make billions of dollars in profits off guns; to destroy the gun lobby, the death lobby, and the Republican Party that defends those lobbies and those businesses. And the only way to do that is an economic civil war. The blue states have all the money; they must starve the red states into submission.” —former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann

Race Bait

“One of the most effective ways of dehumanizing blacks in slavery was it was against the law for us to read and write. … Now you’re going to limit [what] we can read and write in AP classes?” —Al Sharpton

Braying Jennies

“Why don’t you [Nikki Haley] go back to your own country?” —Ann Coulter

“These fascists out there like [Ron] DeSantis, they think that we’re just gonna sit back and let them do whatever they want. No, we’re not.” —"The View" co-host Joy Behar