TOP TEN MOST OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS OF 2004

TOP TEN MOST OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS OF 2004 [from Media Matters for America]

Rush Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib photos: 'I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?'

Ann Coulter: '[Senator John] Kerry will improve the economy in the emergency services and body bag industry.'

Tony Blankley called philanthropist George Soros 'a Jew who figured out a way to survive the Holocaust.'

Michael Savage: 'When you hear 'human rights,' think gays. ... [T]hink only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son.'

Oliver North: 'Every terrorist out there is hoping John Kerry is the next president of the United States.'

Pat Robertson on gays and lesbians: '[S]elf-absorbed hedonists ... that want to impose their particular sexuality on the rest of America.'

Pat Buchanan: '[H]omosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism.'

Bill O'Reilly to Jewish caller: '[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel.'

Bill Cunningham (Clear Channel radio host who appeared as a guest on The Sean Hannity Show): The election is over because 'Elizabeth Edwards has now sung.'

Jerry Falwell: 'And we're going to invite PETA [to 'wild game night'] as our special guest, P-E-T-A -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. We want you to come, we're going to give you a top seat there, so you can sit there and suffer. This is one of my special groups, another one's the ACLU, another is the NOW -- the National Order of Witches [sic]. We've got -- I've got a lot of special groups.'"

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