Malkin’s year-in-review: Notable quotables, Pt I.
A Yale professor named “Don’t tase me, bro” as the most memorable phrase of 2007 last week. Here’s the first of my two-part list of obvious and not-so-obvious notable quotables, words, headlines, and phrases of the year. Part I covers January through June. Part II will cover July through December.
“Obscene amenities.” – WaPo troop-basher William Arkin.
“Amenities International.” – Sout al-Kuffar’s video smackdown of Arkin.
“I’ve lost my son but he became a part of history.” – Deb Dunham, mother of fallen Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
“The way ahead will be neither quick nor easy.” – Gen. David Petraeus on the surge, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Whore.” – What Democrat Rep. Joe Baca called Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who quit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in protest.
“Beclowned.” – To make a thorough ass of oneself in public, coined by blogger Tim Blair.
This is both my first post to the Edwards blog and my announcement that I’m joining the presidential campaign for John Edwards for 2008. I’ll be taking over the job of Blogmaster (mistress?) over the course of the month of February. The main two questions this brings up are: Why me? And why John Edwards? – Amanda Marcotte’s first official post as chief John Edwards blogger
“Godbag.” “Jeebus.” - Favored religious-bashing slurs of Marcotte.
“Christofascist.” – Favored slur of Edwards’ second blogger, Melissa McEwan
“Important action alert.” - Coined by nutroots leader Chris Bower of MyDD to rally supporters of John Edwards’ nutty bloggers.
“He felt that what we were doing was just and right.” – Charles Cummings, father of fallen hero Army PFC Branden Cummings, who died in an IED attack in Diyala, Iraq.
“Chickengreens!” – Blogger Tigerhawk’s nickname for Al Gore and his eco-sanctimonious elites who “Conserve as I say, not as I do.”
- Huffington Post commenters reacting to the suicide bomb attack on Bagram Air Force base during VP Cheney’s visit.
“KICK MY ASS.” – Sign worn by “performance artist” Mark McGowan, who crawled around the streets of New York in a George Bush mask looking for unhinged moonbats to plant their shoes on his backside for therapeutic purposes.
“What’s wrong with sucking up to everybody?” - John McCain on the campaign trail in Seattle.
“Chocolate Jesus.” – Cowardly artist’s attempt to offend people of faith.
“I am John Doe.” – Our response to the lying, flying, suing imams.
“I have cancelled all speaking engagements. I am afraid to leave my yard. I will never feel the same. I will never be the same.” - Techblogger Kathy Sierra gives in to online threats.
“I made the ‘Vote Different’ ad.” – The producer of the famous viral anti-Hillary Big Sister ad steps forward.
“He would do it all over again, and he loved being an American.” - Kristia Cavere, sister of fallen hero Jonathan Cadavero, an Army medic killed on patrol in Baghdad.
“Aww don’t feel noways tired. I’ve come too faarrr from where I started frum. . . . Aww could have listened all day luung.” - Hillary Clinton in Selma, Alabama.
“No attack occurred.” - the North Carolina Attorney General’s conclusion regarding the Duke lacross players.
- from my post on Don Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart
“There’s only one whore on this split-screen, and it’s you, Mr. Shabazz.” – My response to hatemonger Malik Shabazz’s attack on me as a “political prostitute.”
“You know, when I walk into the Oval Office in January of 2009, I’m afraid I’m gonna lift up the rug and I’m goin’ to see so much stuff uh-nder thar . . . You know, what is it about us always havin’ to clean up after people? . . . But this is not just going to be pickin’ up socks off the floor. This is going to be cleanin’ up the government.” – Hillary Clinton preaching at Al Sharpton’s church
“We should not surrender in the face of barbarism” - Joe Lieberman to Harry Reid.
“As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason.” - Asian American Journalists Association grievance-mongers complaining about coverage of VTech killer Cho Seung-Hui.
May:
“Verizon decided this week to end its support and sponsorship of Akon.” – Verizon official Jim Gerace.
“I’m not serving you.” - restaurant owner Jeff Ruby to O.J. Simpson
“I don’t feel like a hero, to be honest with you. I feel like I did the right thing. But the real heroes are our men and women overseas, and the people in our law enforcement who handled this situation.” – Brian Morgenstern, the John Doe whistleblower who tipped of the feds to the Fort Dix Six jihadi suspects.
- John McCain cursing out John Cornyn over shamnesty
June:
“12 million undocumented Americans.” – Harry Reid’s description of the illegal alien population of the US.
“Loud people.” – Lindsay Graham’s disdainful description of grass-roots opponents of shamnesty.
“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” – The odious Trent Lott.
“Clay pigeon.” - Harry Reid’s last-ditch shamnesty ploy.
“Bush Estrangement Syndrome.” – Kathryn Lopez’s term of un-endearment for the White House after the shamnesty debacle.
“I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it.” – Cameron Diaz apologizing for carrying her Mao bag in Peru.
And by special commenter request…
“Now people are at least as smart as goats,” Lott continued. “Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times they quit trying to jump it.”
“I’m not proposing an electrified goat fence,” Lott added quickly, “I’m just trying, there’s an analogy there.”
- The odious Trent Lott striking out again.
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Previous year-in-review posts:
Malkin’s year-in-review: The surge, the military, and the media
Year-in-review: All the ghoulish abortion propaganda that’s fit to print.
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My favorite cable TV moment. Well done!
This one was a decisive win for decency… thanks to MM’s determined efforts.
No goats? I want goats!
Sometimes it’s better not to look back, especially when the topics are so insipid and counter to intelligent discussion and freedom.
Solid. But I also like what Romney said in a debate:
Classic!
I had forgotten how virulently anti-Christian Edwards is. Wonder what makes that man tick?
And McCain. He is just an ass in ‘real’ life.
Ombre Rose
Hillary is so phony and oblivious, I think she may be crazy.
Wow, I can’t believe that Geraldo didn’t make your notable quotes list. He’s gonna be mad enough to spit.
I guess the comment about how the Virgin Mary “really” got pregnant was too disgusting to include.
I’d forgotten about that… which might be why it’s not included. It didn’t get much traction outside of here.
…or was it said after June?
As I already stated at the beginning of the post, this compilation covers January through June.
WTG Michelle – you touch the right bases with this blog all of the time. Glad you are out there..
Let’s not forget the bad idea the Left won’t let die “The Fairness Doctrine”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/12/28/2007-12-28_many_happy_returns_in_2007_ny_radio.html
I guess I got cut!
I guess I’ll have to behave better! Guess I was a bit over the line!
But you are right!
But I would love to see that ugly photo one more time. You know I cannot google it up?
and this is the one quote of yours you post….a rude response to a guest on a show that you were hosting….and this is notable?
Michelle, I apologize for taking advantage of your good nature. I will behave better. I promise.
I tremendously enjoy your website. I don’t want to add to your burden in hosting it.
Ombre Rose,
You mean this photo of Hillary?
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2007/12/elles-belle.html
Why doesn’t Michelle have her own show?
Gum balls.
YOU FORGOT GUMBALLS!!! LOL
scooter56 said:
your comment says a lot about you…looks like you did not see how these comments came about…or you have no idea who Mr. Shabazz is. Or should I say what he is?
From the term “Global Warming” to the term oppostion scientist’s used “Climate Change”
It’s Friday…sorry Michelle
Michelle’s quote was actually from a story about an AP bimbo staffer doing a video blog about boobs, pole dancing and other dopey topics. Even the production values were terrible – bright backgrounds – with the “reporter” a dark blob due to inept photography. But then again, the AP is only into Fauxtography…
My guess is family time and loss thereof.
Nothing notable from The View? Barbara WaWa is going to be so disappointed.
Geraldo isn’t worth Michelle’s valuable time. She has better things to do than prop up his mustache. Let him get mad!! Serves him right for being a such a wuss!
As for the Shabazz comment, If you could have only heard me hootin’ and hollerin’ with delight when I heard you say that! I would have loved to have been in the control booth when you said that!!
RE: Own show for Michelle.
Her own show would slow her down in such a target rich environment.
Keep locking and loading on ‘em. If there was only a way for the arrows to remain stuck in; but the MSM keeps pulling them out and bandaging the wounds. Guess there is something to be said for driving stakes through the heart, but the MSM can recusitate so many many of their select vampires that love to suck the cash from the body politic.
Biggest jerk of the year award goes to Chris Matthews. I think there should be a new medical term for people like Mr. Matthews. That would be called “clinical Clintonian sycophancy”. Mr. Matthews went on the Colbert show and said if young people want to be successful in life, they should model themselves after Bill Clinton. If young men want to be successful with young women, they should learn, Matthews actually said, from the example of Bill Clinton’s dating techniques and Bill Clinton’s “ability to listen”. By this time in the interview, Mr. Colbert was virtually retching on the floor. I’m usually not a Colbert fan but this night was priceless watching him make a fool out of the pretentious Matthews.
If I followed Bill Clinton’s dating techniques, I might end up spending the weekend, not in the Loveboat but in the county jail.
A thread on Bush, Hillary and Pelosi and now the year-in-review.
No lgm.
I must be having stupid DT’s or something to even bring lgm up.
In the spirit of “year-in-review no so notable quotables”:
MM said (add insult here)… lgm
Easy now.
If you celebrate “Islamofascist”, then you should get used to
Live by the slime, …
And, On-my-soap-box wrote:
It’s possible to call someone out without insulting him or her. Try it sometime.
ROFL – you first lgm.
Thanks for the stupid fix:
Hope you had a Merry Christmas!
OK, if you insist. You said those who use the term “Islamofascist” should get used to “Christofascist”. If I may quote Robert O. Paxton, (OK, it’s from Wikipedia) (The Anatomy of Fascism. (Knopf Publishing Group, 2005), 218) “Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
Does that sound more like Islamicists or Christians to you? So maybe the term Islamofascist might actually be descriptive…
If you followed his dating technique you would find your sorry butt in prison – not jail – prison, for rape. I don’t think Hillary is going to form a bimbo eruption brigade to protect us from assault and rape charges like she did Billy Boy.
To obscene Arkin,Im proud to be a mercenary and a INFIDEL,he sure wouldnt have the cajones to man up and put on a uniform,he wouldnt make a pimple on a good soldiers a$$.Happy new year lgm.
Marcotte/McEwan=Mugly people
If a Democrat or RINO becomes the next president, I predict the most uttered phrase for 2009 will be: “Don’t tax me, bro!”
You missed one memorable quote from early this year.
“I’m a f—ing steamroller, and I’ll roll over you and anyone in my way.” NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco.
#16
Did not see that exchange? If you had, you would understand why MM said what she did, and she was entirely correct!
oops…’Did you not see that exchange?’
Definitely my favorite.
I nominate, “Palomino!” as a notable quote (or was that late 2006?).
I nominate this quote from Bill Maher on May 3, 2007 (along will the response) as one of the funniest quotes of the year:
Sliccary’s silly comments about being fearful of what she might find under the rug in the Oval Office are classic Clintonian subterfuge. She should make an inquiry with President and Mrs. Bush as to their findings after following her sexual predator and philandering husband into office. It was not socks they were “pickin up off the floor” and I am sure that the stains and soggy cigars were not exactly a welcome sight for them to find. Clean up your own messy home first Sliccary.
Isn’t it supposed to be “IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT!”? All caps and such, which would signify the absurdum screaming of Democrats?
Ah…memories!
The moment of the year for me was the take down of Nifong. That arrogant pissant becoming a defendant was the most satisfying turn of events of the year.
Thank you very much, but no.
I am not exactly sure why my post was removed, I was a bit snotty about the incident I am referring to, so if this doesn’t post…
But early in Clinton’s administrations, I THINK, Hillary went to the Middle East, and did not go to the Israeli leadership, but went to Arafat, and when they met, she kissed him full on the mouth – not the French kiss on both cheeks he usually did. The photo was a perfect profile of them both, not a different angle – but very clear.
The photo stayed up for WEEKS, and the forums I was on ran THOUSANDS of posts commenting on her kissing old “CAMEL LIPS” when after Carter’s faux pas about LUSTING AFTER OTHER WOMEN on the Muslim airport tarmac, we were stunned that she did that. It would have been presumptious of her to shake his hand, or be kissed by him on both cheeks! After all the comments he made about lewd women regarding Muslim law, in the weeks running up to her visit.
In googling, the photo of her kissing Arafat’s WIFE is mentioned a lot – BUT NOTHING of her kissing ARAFAT HIMSELF – OLD CAMEL LIPS!
And his wife was not there, and Bill was not there.
“SCANDALOUS”!!!
When she kissed his WIFE, later on a different trip altogether, I don’t even remember anyone commenting on THAT.
On December 28th, 2007 at 6:45 pm, NotaSlickFan said:
AMEN! And smeared on the walls, as well!
Glad YOUR post about THAT comment is still up!
Rick Moran
I agree with you that seeing Nifong get put in his place was a good thing. It was about time some of these charlatans were held responsible for the damages their actions cause.
My other favorite moment along those lines was seeing Dingy Harry get his treasonous comments about the Iraq war being lost and the surge not working shoved where the sun doesn’t shine. He was saying that before the additional troops were even in place to commence the new strategy. In this old Marine’s eyes he and his cohorts are modern day versions of Benedict Arnold.
I personally wish that military service was a pre-requisite for holding office. Not having served means not understanding the level of sacrifice and devotion to duty required of these “Real Americans”.
There are so many imbecilic quotes that came out of the pieholes of Democrats this year, that it’s hard to pick one that stood out.
As for the good ones, I like “I am John Doe” because it’s a defiant poke in the eye to the Islamo-nuts and the craven PC crowd. I also like the quote:
That sums it up for this old Soldier.