Quotes of the Day

From Ace of Spades HQ:

Quote of the Day I

Here's -- we know six things, Chris. We know first the targeting occurred. Therefore, second, we know that this is worse than article two of the Nixon impeachment count, which said Nixon endeavored to use the IRS. The IRS back then resisted.

Third, we know that this became public in an act of deceit when Lois Lerner planted a question with a friend in an audience to try and get this out on her own terms.

Fourth, we know that she has taken the Fifth Amendment because she has a right to do this when she has a reasonable suspicion that there might be criminal activity involved.

Fifth, we know that from the timeline you put up today, that there has been 13 months of stonewalling on this.

And sixth, now we know that not only her hard drive, but six other people intimately involved in this suddenly crashed in an amazing miraculous coincidence. Religions have been founded on less, ten days after the investigation started.

-- George Will on Fox News Sunday this weekend

Quote of the Day II

Being a professional writer is not a heroic job, but it does have at least one moral requirement: you mustn't lie. If you make your living by writing, it stands to reason there are people who read what you write; you therefore have at least some power to inform, influence, enlighten or persuade. You can be wrong - we're all wrong sometimes; you can err - everyone does. But to use whatever amount of power you have to deceive intentionally by commission or omission or distortion is wicked; it's a sin.

So if Katie McDonough, an assistant editor at Salon, finds herself feeling angry all the time, as I very much suspect she does, it's not because conservative columnist George Will pretended "rape never happens," because that never happened; it's not because Will claimed that being a rape victim is a "coveted status," because Will never did; it's not because Will feels uncomfortable discussing sexual assault, because he very obviously does not; it's because she's ashamed of herself for deceiving her audience by distorting Will's words, thoughts and intentions, as she very well should be. Shame and self-disgust sometimes make you lash out at other people to keep you from facing what you've done yourself.

-- Andrew Klavan on Salon hackess Katie McDonough

Further proof that Undeniable Truth of Life #24, "Feminism was established so as to permit unattractive women easier access to the mainstream." applies. But there needs to be a slight modification, "Feminism was established so as to permit unattractive women and female pundits easier access to the mainstream."

Quote of the Day III

So here, alas, is where we now stand six years into the Age of Obama: The President isn't making America safer at home, he doesn't have the jihadis on the run, he has no idea how to bring prosperity, democracy, or religious moderation to the Middle East, he can't pivot away from the region, and he doesn't know what to do next. He's the only President this country has got, and one can't help but wish him well, but if things are going to get any better, he needs to stop digging. He probably needs to bring in some new blood, and he must certainly ask himself some tough questions about why so many of his most cherished ideas keep leading him and his country into such ugly places.

-- WRM, losing the faith.

Your first mistake was to believe in him in the first place. Many conservatives recognized the danger of electing him President. We were dismissed. We would all be laughing, if he hadn't managed to nearly destroy the country.