Michael Fish, BBC weather forecaster: “A woman rang and said there is a hurricane on the way. If you are watching, don’t worry - there isn’t”, hours before the South of England was devastated by the worst hurricane ever to hit the country. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/interview_archive/ian_mccaskill.shtml)
Jane Fonda. The day after “The Deerhunter” won the Oscar for best picture, Jane (who had starred in “Coming Home,” which was also nominated for best pic) was ranting about how the Academy made a mistake. “This is the Pentagon’s view of the Vietnam War,” she blathered, and proceded to prattle on about how much better “Coming Home” was and how it should have won the Oscar.
One reporter had the presence of mind to ask Jane whether she had seen “The Deerhunter”.
Jane’s reply was frank: “No, but I know our film was better!”
Michelle Williams, in an interview abotu Halloween H20, said:
“Our goal is to literally scare the audience to death.”
Attempted murder, anyone?
Maybe Quayle didn’t say that, but a lot of people have. My brother’s girlfriend was a Latin American Studies major in college, and everyone would ask her if she knew Latin.
Do tell us about the union label song thing.
Actually he/she is quite right. The media plays up incidents that fit the particular caricature that has been accepted for each person. In the case of Bush (& Quayle) it was stupidity - in the case of Gore it was embellishing his life story (e.g. the two incidents that you cite).
You know, Tipper and I were the inspiration for Love Story.
Excuse me, Al, while I take a toxic waste dump.
What I meant was, that the media did repeat stupid things said by Gore.
He said his mother used to sing him the song, “Look for the Union Label!” as a lullaby-it wasn’t written until he was what-27? Something like that. D’uh, Al! :rolleyes:
I’m just saying, that’s all. I don’t think the media is biased one way or the other-it depends on what network/periodical/station whatever that you’re reading/listening to/watching, etc etc.
The charge was, that Gore said stupid things, but it wasn’t reported on. Yes it was. And so what? They both said stupid things-who really cares?
It’s not a quote exactly, but I heard it somewhere. Barbara Cartland recently died. However, before she did, she asked that she be buried in a cardboard box to save trees. This from a woman responsible for thousands and thousands of PAPERBACK books that are too boring to even read. Talk about wasting trees.
I’m about as Red as a free man can be, but didn’t Jane Fonda badly confuse her own dash of “purely literary and fashionable communism” with that peculiar kind of fanaticism which would inspire one to visit one’s country’s enemy and make loud, immature speeches condemning not the war but the dead?
She may well not have done. I may well have got only half the story. But even as a damn-near-Commie, what I heard she’d done sounded horrifically stupid.
Oh, and Prince Philip is great, of course. As Mr Izzard said, “He’s head of the World Wildlife Fund… and he kills animals.”
Exactly. That was not an example of a stupid thing said by Al Gore. Rather it was an example of him embellishing his life story.
Point being that once a certain image takes hold of a public figure it becomes dificult for him to shake, because the media will seize on any shred of a story that tends to support this image.
So you’re probably right that the media was not biased in favor of Al. But “stupid” stories were not Gore material - those were for Bush. Gore got the “liar and phony” ones.
The origin of the Quayle quote is interesting. So should the quote now be attributed to Claudine Schneider?
Of course, and I appologize, then, Izzy.
Actually, I would say forget about the book. I got one of those “365 Stupidest Things Ever Said” calendar for Christmas, and I wasn’t impressed. The vast majority of them aren’t actually “stupid quotes” but rather are either simple typos or verbal slips that happen to everyone.
For example:
“12 injured in bride collapse” (newspaper headline)
Ok, someone misspelled “bridge” and the spell-checker didn’t catch it. Big Deal.
“The sun shall never set on the British Umpire”
“They were hoping to raise enough money to erect a bronze statue of the Duck of Wellington” (both from BBC radio)
So, a guy is talking for hours on end and is an idiot because he mispronounces one word? C’mon.
Then there are the ones that aren’t so stupid:
“I broke the fingers of my feet” - French motorcyclist Raymond Roche, describing a crash.
The guy’s giving an interview in a foreign language and uses a roundabout way to describe something he doesn’t know the English word for. Moron, right.
Finally, the ones that make the compilers look more stupid than the speaker:
“Aliens blamed for phone tapping and cloning” - Singapore Straits-Times headline.
Heh heh, those wacky Singaporeans! Course, if you read the article and find out that foreigners are tapping cell phone signals to get the phone’s ID codes, then using the stolen codes to create cloned cell phones, the headline makes perfect sense.
I’m all for celebrity-bashing, but the people who make these books are just looking for anything they can pull out of context to pad their latest sequel.
I believe Barbara Streisand also promised to leave the country if Dole were elected. And she renewed her promise during the Gore-Bush race, saying the same in regard to George W.
A better reason to vote for Dole or Bush I’ve never seen.
One of my favorites is from an early Texas governor, “Ma” Ferguson. There was a debate going on about teaching immigrant children in English or Spanish. Her theory:
“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for us.”
How about then-Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, who told reporters (with a straight face, yet): “There is no Mafia! That’s all a lot of baloney!”
Paraphrasing: “It’s not about the money. I’d play football for free.”
– Said by Ryan Leaf after deciding to leave college early (where he was playing for free) for the big bucks of the NFL.
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Not to mention that in Spanish at least, ‘toes’ is literally ‘fingers of the feet’. (dedos del pie, if I recall correctly)
Anything here
http://www.bushisms.com/index1a.html
I don’t remember the exact quote but Bush once said that he misunderestimated something. What’s misunderestimated? Also the backstreet boys said, “Don’t hate us because we’re beautiful.”