Stupid Quote of the Week (SQOTW) 31Aug

Oh, Lordy Lordy. What a smorgasbord of stupid quotes I had to choose from this week. Bill Maher led the pack early when he opened his piehole about the death of Billionaire David Koch. Instead of dipping into my lexicon for the right words to tell the story, I'll steal this post about Maher with credit to Stiltons Place blog who took the words right out of my mouth:

Which is why on "Real Time with Bill Maher," the obnoxious comic celebrated David Koch's passing with the following monologue (repeated here verbatim):

Fuck him...I'm glad he's dead!
(pause for laughs)
He was 79, but his family says they wish it could be longer. But at least he lived long enough to see the Amazon catch fire.
(pause for laughs)
Condolences poured in from all the politicians he owned, and mourners are being asked in lieu of flowers to just leave their car engine running.
(pause for laughs)
As for his remains, he has asked to be cremated and have his ashes blown into a child's lungs.
(pause for laughs - then it's time to get serious)
He and his brother have done more than anybody to fund climate science deniers for decades, so fuck him. The Amazon is burning up. I'm glad he's dead and I hope the end was painful.

It's not rare to hear Leftists like Maher puke up naked hate speech, but to actually celebrate the pain that someone felt while dying of cancer is a new low.

We would never wish for the death or illness of anyone, and certainly not take pleasure from the pain someone experienced during an agonizing death. But if and when such a fate befalls Bill Maher personally, we're willing to make an exception to our rule.

This humorless bastard needs to start worrying a lot less about climate change, and a lot more about Karma.

FOR THE RECORD

David Koch once told the Wall Street Journal that he'd rather donate money to a good cause rather than "use it on buying a bigger house or a $150 million painting." Unlike the Obama family, clearly.

So to whom did David Koch donate?

$185 Million - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for cancer research, childcare center, biology building, and school of chemical engineering.

$150 Million - Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The biggest gift the center ever received.

$128 Million - New York Presbyterian Hospital

$100 Million - New York State Theater at Lincoln Center

$66.7 Million - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

$65 Million - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

$35 Million - Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

$26.5 Million - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

$26.2 Million - The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York

$20 Million - American Museum of Natural History

$20 Million - Johns Hopkins University, for a cancer research center.

If this was the Asshole of the Week contest, I'm sure Maher would have won hands down. Noting that he also hopes America will suffer an economic recession to hurt Trump's re-election chances elevates this cretin for the Asshole of the Year award. Can you imagine the uproar from liberals if it had been, say, Ruth Bader Ginsburg that died and Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity said those words about her on the air? 

Why do liberals ignore their own sinners but attack the other side with absolute rabid ferocity?  ... But I digress. (Hey, maybe I should start an Asshole of the Week blog post to complement this one ... Hmmm.)

I thought surely Maher would take top honors this week. But I was wrong; CNN came through again. It was a tough choice with CNN's April Ryan explaining why she had her (now, suddenly "former") bodyguard eject a cameraman (and steal his camera which ended in an arrest for assault, among other things) ... and then deny, in typical Sergeant Schultz fashion she told him to do anything. Suddenly, she knows nothing.

Ironically, April has sermonized about the sanctity of the freedom of the press with this tweet:

But April Ryan lost out to yet another CNN commentator who stooped lower than whale shit on the floor of the ocean to (again) prove CNN has -zero- credibility to match its paltry viewer ratings. Many Americans already know this after watching them air potential Democrat Presidential candidate and (for a little while more, anyway) Attorney Michael Avanatti over 200 times while he bashed Trump ... well, until he was arrested for such petty crimes as extortion, defrauding his clients and tax evasion.   ... But I digress again.

CNN's media pundit Brian Stelter outdid them all when he put on a credentialed whack-job psychiatrist who, unchecked, uttered these pearls of lunacy on the air:

“Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were,” psychiatrist Dr. Allen Frances told Stelter.

Instead of challenging him or outright stopping him, Stelter let him ramble on. When asked later why he didn't, Stelter offered this lame excuse:

“I agree that I should have interrupted after that line. I wish I had heard him say it, but I was distracted by tech difficulties."

The Blaze media critic Rob Eno said that he’s “not buying” Stelter’s excuse.

“That would be believable if Stelter hadn’t spent the last three years telling us that Trump was a threat to established norms and that the media should talk about Trump’s mental state,” Eno wrote. “Frances’ characterization is exactly the path Stelter wanted to go down, because it fits his agenda.”

The psychiatrist that was booked by Stelter has a long history on social media of anti-Trump tweets, among other things.

The fair question in this whole scenario is would be a multiple-choice question as to who is more non-compos mentis, Dr. Frances or CNN's Brian Stelter?

And finally, for Dr. (and I use that term loosely) Frances who uttered such off the wall poppycock, I offer this:

The Goldwater rule is the informal name given to section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics, which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures whom they have not examined in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements. It is named after former US Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

The issue arose in 1964 when Fact published the article "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater". The magazine polled psychiatrists about US Senator Barry Goldwater and whether he was fit to be president. Goldwater sued magazine editor Ralph Ginzburg and managing editor Warren Boroson, and in Goldwater v. Ginzburg (July 1969) received damages totaling $75,000 ($512,000 today).

Yeah, I had the combo-platter of stupid quotes to work with this week. Gee, who could have seen CNN would have a qualifying entry 2 weeks in a row? But if anybody won the the stupid quote of the week, hands down it is the fruitcake psychiatrist who proved liberalism is a disease that robs logic and lowers mental capacity, as evidenced by those words.

I'd say physician heal thyself, but in this case I'm rather doubtful it's even a possibility at this point. Thanks for proving my previous points about higher education often being a complete waste, "doctor."

Added PS: Yes, I saw MS-NBC's Lawrence O'Donnell lie about Trump and then retract it under threat of a libel lawsuit. But that's just ordinary fake news excrement and most of us (save the idiots who actually believe what they say) know it as such. I also thought about mentioning James Comey (the disgraced former head of the FBI), but I'm going to save that for a coming blog about how obscene it is when both state and federal justice departments get hijacked for political purposes. ... When I get time, that is.