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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents.

– Former Pres. Jimmy Carter, speaking the truth — he has been the most active and productive former president in our history. He later walked back the comment: “What I meant was, for 27 years the Carter Center has provided me with superior opportunities to do good.” But he was correct the first time.

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What happened in my particular race, you had the Tea Party Express, this California-based group, come in at the last minute in a campaign, run a mudslinging, smear — just a terrible, terrible campaign, with lies and fabrications and mischaracterization.They came in, they dumped $600,000 into a small market here in Alaska, and they absolutely clearly influenced the outcome of that election … I don’t think that it’s particularly helpful [for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)] to undercut fellow Republicans, but as I say, it’s his prerogative … I think that he has made people uncomfortable. I think that he has kind of rattled the cages. Whether it advances to a full-on civil war, I don’t know.

– Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on CNN’s “State of the Union,” on Sunday.

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Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for ground zero. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

– Bryan Fischer, a blogger for the right-wing hate group, American Family Association, which has raised millions of dollars over the years by stoking hatred of gays among its Christian-extremist donor pool — but with acceptance of gay rights rising in the polls and the multi-million dollar budgets of AFA’s anti-gay competitor groups shrinking to the point that employees are being laid off, Fischer’s attack on Muslims may signal that AFA will add Islamic hatred to its fundraising appeals.

Finally – Mainstream Media Points Out That Gay Marriage Is Twice As Popular Now As Interracial Marriage Was When It Was Legalized in 1967

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This is a factoid I have tried to get out there for a while now — and it’s shocking that it was Chuck Todd, one of the main regurgitators of conventional wisdom in the Beltway kool kids club, who put it on TV.

It’s wrong to base protecting people’s rights on polling, but if that’s how it is going to be done now, then it should at least be consistent.

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CALLER: How about the N-word? So, the N-word’s been thrown around —

[LAURA] SCHLESSINGER: Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger.

CALLER: That isn’t —

SCHLESSINGER: I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing; but when black people say it, it’s affectionate…

CALLER: So it’s OK to say “nigger”?

SCHLESSINGER: — and not enough sense of humor.

CALLER: It’s OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It depends how it’s said.

CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It’s — it depends how it’s said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s OK.

CALLER: But you’re not black. They’re not black. My husband is white.

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, I see. So, a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can’t do much about that.

CALLER: I can’t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the “nigger” word, and I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: I didn’t spew out the “nigger” word.

CALLER: You said, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.”

SCHLESSINGER: Right, I said that’s what you hear.

CALLER: Everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: Yes, they did.

CALLER: I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: They did, and I’ll say it again —

CALLER: So what makes it OK for you to say the word?

SCHLESSINGER: — nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HB —

CALLER: So what makes it —

SCHLESSINGER: Why don’t you let me finish a sentence?

CALLER: OK.

SCHLESSINGER: Don’t take things out of context. Don’t double N — NAACP me. Tape the —

CALLER: I know what the NAACP —

SCHLESSINGER: Leave them in context.

– Right-wing radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger, speaking with an African-American woman who called in to her show last week. After the call was over, Schlessinger told her audience, “And what I just heard from Jade is a lot of what I hear from black-think — and it’s really distressting [sic] and disturbing. And to put it in its context, she said the N-word, and I said, on HBO, listening to black comics, you hear “nigger, nigger, nigger.” I didn’t call anybody a nigger. Nice try, Jade. Actually, sucky try.”.

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A guy is looking to buy an expensive car, tests it out, and comes back to the dealer to complain, “This is an expensive car, but the radio doesn’t work.” The dealer explains, “No, no, this is a high-tech state of the art car radio. All you have to do is say what you want to hear. Say ‘country music’ and country music comes on. Say ‘rock n’ roll’ and rock ‘n roll comes on.” The guy says, “Great, I’ll take it.” The guy is driving it off the lot and turns into the street when another motorist cuts him off. “Jerk!’ he mutters — and Rush Limbaugh comes on.

– Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.)