The Top 10 Most Hateful Quotes of 2009

Many people cannot be happy unless they hate.

(10) “I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers.” (Fmr. Sec. of Labor Robert Reich, Jan. 7, 2009, on how the stimulus money should be spent.)

(9) “I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.” (Barack Hussein Obama, July 16, 2009, on the arrest of Harvard University racist Negro professor Henry Louis Gates.)

(8) A tie: anything said or written by the $PLC and the ADL

(7) The MIAC Report, The Modern Militia Movement, Feb. 20, 2009 (pretty much written by the $PLC and the ADL)

(6) “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.” (Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George Casey, Nov. 8, 2009, “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on the Ft. Hood massacre.)

(5) “Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.” (Racist Negro Reverend Joseph Lowery, Jan. 20, 2009, at the inauguration of Obama.)

(4) “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”(Attorney General Eric Holder, Feb. 18, 2009)

(3) “It was a very unfortunate event.” (Columbia University racist Negro professor Lionel McIntyre, Nov. 10, 2009, on his punching the face of university employee Camille Davis, a White woman, during a discussion about “White privilege.”)

(2) “Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.” (Marxist activist and lousy actress Janeane Garofalo on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”, Apr. 16, 2009, referring to Tea party attendees.)

(1) “It’s horrifying to imagine kids being proud to be white.” (Newsweek, Sept. 14, 2009. This will probably be in the top 10 most hateful quotes EVER.)

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2009-12-29