Wednesday, July 25, 2007

BO/Kos/Clinton Furor

In case you have forgotten, a sitting U.S. Senator in the not so distant past threatened a sitting U.S. President. Thus, O'Reilly's assertion that all wingnut speech is pure as the driven snow is not likely to pass muster on the truth scale.

27741. Helms, Jesse. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996:

"CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER: 27741
QUOTATION: Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He’d better have a bodyguard.

ATTRIBUTION: Jesse Helms (b. 1921), U.S. Republican senator from North Carolina. New York Times, p. A19 (November 23, 1994).

Public statement made a week after calling the President unfit to be commander-in-chief."

And Harry Reid said George Bush was a liar. Whoopeedooo.

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