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Old 02-06-2010, 10:42 AM
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Subject: FW: Quote of the Week (Confesion from California)

"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're number one. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."

--columnist Burt Prelutsky, LA Times
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Old 02-06-2010, 11:22 AM
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It seems to have quite a circulation on the web, but I didn't find anything about it at the LA Times. However, I did find this at ResistNet.com http://www.resistnet.com/group/idaho...imes-is-coming

There is no link to the LA Times.

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Maybe The LA Times is coming around!


Quote Of The Week

"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine , even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington , we're number one. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."

--columnist Burt Prelutsky , LA Times
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Burt Prelutsky


Burt Prelutsky's writing background is varied and extensive.

He was a humor columnist for the L.A. Times and the movie critic for Los Angeles magazine.

On a freelance basis, he has written for TV Guide, the New York and Washington Times, Emmy, Modern Maturity and Sports Illustrated.

For TV, in addition to several award-winning movies that starred the likes of Jean Stapleton, Ed Asner, Keith Carradine, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Sharon Gless, Jean Simmons, David Soul, Lillian Gish and Richard Thomas, he has written for "Dragnet," "McMillan & Wife," "Mary Tyler Moore," "Rhoda,""MASH," "Bob Newhart," "Family Ties," "Dr. Quinn" and "Diagnosis Murder."

He has interviewed and in some cases befriended the likes of Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Gene Kelly, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Norman Lear, Jerry Herman, George Kennedy, Art Linkletter, Alan Alda, Mae West, Fred Astaire, Samy Cahn, Sid Caesar, Harry Ruby, Jack Webb, Ginger Rogers, Phyllis Diller, Otto Preminger, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope and Gerald Ford.

Mr. Prelutsky is the author of the L.A. Times best seller "Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From San Francisco."

He is prepared to speak about the celebrities he has worked with and has known personally. He can speak about why Hollywood is as foolishly liberal as it is. He can speak about how he came to have a writing career in television and even how, at the age of 50, because of ageism in the industry, he came not to have one. He can speak about how he, who grew up in an immigrant Russian-Jewish home that regarded FDR as a saint, finally came to see the light and become an avowed conservative. Or he can speak about all of the above.

Burt Prelutsky WorldNetDaily columns

http://www.wnd.com/speakers/bprelutsky.asp
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Old 02-06-2010, 11:28 AM
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This is at Patriots For America http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/p...s-quote-of-the

Once again, no link.
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LA Times said it - Quote of the Week

Who would have thought that the LA TIMES would even allow it on their pages??


Quote Of The Week:

"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine , even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington , we're number one. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."

--columnist Burt Prelutsky , LA Times
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Old 02-06-2010, 11:46 AM
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It's at Western blogspot, again no link http://westernhero.blogspot.com/2010...alifornia.html

Widget box, no link http://www.widgetbox.com/network/pol...fornia/3219513

AOL message board, no link http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_...Unhidden=false

Kevin McCarthy's Dallas Digest No link http://dallasdigestforum.com/view_to...ump_to=1188653

Fishing Forum no link http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin...gi?post=558703

My Central Tea Party .com no link http://centralvalleyteaparty.ning.co...te-of-the-week

Chuck's Blog no link http://ourlighterside.com/2010/01/20/quote-of-the-week/

I'm not going to waste any more of my time. It seems to me to be a prank or willful fraud tossed out there and has wide distribution with no verification..
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Nope it's TRUE!

http://prelutsky.blogspot.com/

Scroll all the way down to 12/6/09

Under the article entitled The New and Improved Iron Curtain you will find the quote.

Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on “Macbeth”.

The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of speech. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.
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Well if Meg wins California, you can add her to the list.
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The cauldron stirrers were not the scariest women in "Macbeth".
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Nope it's TRUE!

http://prelutsky.blogspot.com/

Scroll all the way down to 12/6/09

Under the article entitled The New and Improved Iron Curtain you will find the quote.

Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on “Macbeth”.

The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of speech. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.
It's not in the LA times as was alleged and circulated around the internet:

--> http://prelutsky.blogspot.com/ <--

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Sunday, December 6, 2009
The New And Improved Iron Curtain
by Burt Prelutsky

Back in 1946, Winston Churchill, in a speech delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, referred to an Iron Curtain that had descended across the Continent, behind which all the capitols of the ancient states, from Berlin to Belgrade, from Budapest to Sofia, were under the boot of the Soviet Union.

Today, freedom-loving people are faced with a second such curtain. It doesn’t exist in Eastern Europe this time, but along the Potomac. On one side, there are despots like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Sunstein, Emanuel, Axelrod, Specter and Conyers. On the other side are those of us who are sick and tired of having ex-community organizers and their left-wing henchmen doing their best to enslave us. They treat the Constitution like toilet paper; they bribe millions of us, including illegal aliens, with cash and free health benefits, while simultaneously bankrupting the rest of us, along with our kids and their kids.

They have saddled us with so much debt, unemployment and inevitable inflation, one can only assume it’s their plan that we’ll be too wretched to notice that they’re also taking away our rights and freedom. This is the doing of the same people who pretended that the Patriot Act, which did nothing more than try to prevent Islamic terrorists from plotting a sequel to 9/11, was the height of fascistic tyranny.

I guarantee that if our leading leftists were characters in a movie, a lot more people would be able to recognize their villainy. That’s because they would all look like albinos and talk with funny accents.

For instance, the secret ballot has been sacrosanct ever since our nation was founded. However, we find the current administration pushing for card check, which would deprive American workers of that basic safeguard when it comes to union elections. The purpose is obvious. The goons in the SEIU and the UAW want to know whom to intimidate, whose kneecaps to bust. And Obama, whose campaign coffers benefited to the tune of at least $100 million in union dues, is only too happy to return the favor.

The truth is, most people are so easily cowed and so unwilling to deal with confrontation that if it weren’t for the secret ballot, something as utterly absurd as same-sex marriage and as immoral as abortion without parental notification for 14-year-olds would probably be legal in all 50 states.

In the first 10 months of Obama’s presidency, Andy Stern, president of the SEIU, paid 22 visits to the White House. It sort of reminds you of the old days when only Monica Lewinsky had such easy access to the president. These days, with Stern running in and out, you can’t help wondering who’s servicing whom in the Oval Office.

One of the worst things about the House passing Obamacare was having to put up with Nancy Pelosi’s patting her own back and gloating, in spite of 39 desperate Democrats who broke ranks in the hope of hanging on to their seats in 2010.

Speaking of Pelosi, considering that it’s been a very long time since the Speaker was able to blink her eyes or to look anything but startled, do you think her plastic surgeon ever tells potential clients that he’s the schlemiel who did the job?

Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on “Macbeth”.

The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of speech. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.
No argument by me with the content of the whole quote.

No one in the many websites the two paragraph cut was copied and pasted to questioned the origins of the quote, and perhaps in the form it was circulated through all those websites it could be construed as libel. The focus was the LA Times - as if the LA Times agreed with the quote - rather than a person who was formerly employed by the LA as a humor columnist and stated an opinion which was independent of and not printed by his former employer.

My opinion is that we have to have the credibility of accuracy. If it appears that we run with tales which strike our fancy without checking accuracy, we lose credibility.
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Speaking of Pelosi, considering that it’s been a very long time since the Speaker was able to blink her eyes or to look anything but startled, do you think her plastic surgeon ever tells potential clients that he’s the schlemiel who did the job?
There's an old one line joke about Zsa Zsa Gabor which could have some like milage with Pelosi:

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"She's had so many face lifts she now has a beard"
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