MRC's Notable Quotables: Championing Obama’s Big Government 'Generosity'

Now online: the January 26 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, as President Obama gives his State of the Union address, NBC's Brian Williams touts the "generosity" of his plan for "free college for millions," even as NBC morning host Matt Lauer slaps Republicans for their "pettiness" and "disrespect" for applauding Obama's statement that he cannot run for President again.

Also, Bryant Gumbel growls about the "pigs" in the National Rifle Association, and the left-wing erupts in anger against American Sniper, the movie about Iraq war hero Chris Kyle. Highlights are posted after the jump; the entire issue is posted online, with 21 quotes (six with video) at www.MRC.org.

As If Media Bias Had Nothing to Do with It

“He [President Obama] got the post-election honeymoon, not the Republicans.”
— NBC’s Chuck Todd, January 20 Nightly News before the State of the Union.

Obama vs. Republican “Pettiness” and “Disrespect”

“That one odd moment that a lot of people are talking about this morning, Mr. Vice President, where the President was talking about having arguments that are worthy of the body and the country, and then he said, ‘I’ve run my last campaign,’ and there was a smattering of applause, maybe even laughter from some Republicans and the President shot back. Did you see that as a moment of disrespect? Was it a symptom of the very pettiness that the President was referring to?”
— NBC’s Matt Lauer to Vice President Joe Biden on Today, January 21, the morning after the State of the Union.

Obama’s Mainstream: Halfway Between a Liberal and an Ultra-Liberal

“The economic message, also, is so politically in tune with where the broad spectrum of the American people are. He’s laying out themes that are equidistant between the Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton branches of the Democratic Party.”
— Correspondent Andrea Mitchell during NBC’s live coverage of the State of the Union speech, January 20.

Championing Obama’s Big Government “Generosity”

“Still ahead on this Friday night: free college for millions of American students — an ambitious offer that could help so many families....In Tennessee today, President Obama unveiled the goal of a nation where everyone has not only the chance, but also the means to go to college. He has a plan to put more careers on the launch pad with two years of community college tuition — courtesy of the government. And while for millions of us, a community college education can be the only viable option, the question is how to pay for this generosity?”
— Anchor Brian Williams on the January 9 NBC Nightly News.

Brian Fears for Cuba: “What Happens to the Revolution?”

“From Havana tonight, we have a bit of a caution for all those Americans who may think that, in a year or two, this will all be different, teeming with American tourists and big American brand names....[to Cuban woman] When Americans are here, and planes and hotels and the cars are 2015 cars and not 1958 cars, what happens to the revolution?”
— NBC anchor Brian Williams reporting from Cuba on the January 21 Nightly News.

“Pigs” of the NRA = “A Curse Upon the American Landscape”

“There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they’re pigs. I think they don’t care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape.”
— Former NBC and CBS morning news host Bryant Gumbel, who currently hosts HBO’s Real Sports, in an interview with Rolling Stone posted January 20.

CNN Anchor Trips on His Own Political Correctness

CNN’s Chris Cuomo: “As you see on your screen, three hostage takers dead. That calculus, as far as we know at this point, are the two brothers, who were taken out in a separate assault and a separate standoff in an industrial area, and the African American man who’d been pictured as a suspect in a separate shooting yesterday.”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Not American — the man of African descent.”
Cuomo: “Right — African descent. Thank you. Sorry, Anderson.”
— Exchange on CNN’s @ThisHour, January 9, referring to Amedy Coulibaly, a Frenchman born outside of Paris to parents who had emigrated from west Africa.

Outpouring of Left-Wing Vitriol for Movie About American Hero

“The mere act of trying to make a typically Hollywoodian one-note fairy tale set in the middle of the insane moral morass that is/was the Iraq occupation is both dumber and more arrogant than anything George Bush or even Dick Cheney ever tried....Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the President who got us into the war in question.”
— Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi, January 21.

“American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that’s showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.”
— January 18 Twitter posting by actor Seth Rogen, referring to a Nazi propaganda film glorifying a sniper.

“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse”
— Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore in a January 18 message posted on Twitter.

 

To read the entire January 26 edition of Notable Quotables, please visit www.MRC.org.