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Garrison Keillor Author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. He is probably best known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion."

Quote "[O]ne starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them [Republicans] and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order."

Written in a September 30, 2009 Chicago Tribune article. Source: "'Lake Wobegon' Author: Let GOPers Die," by WorldNetDaily. Posted here: October 12, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: Just imagine the uproar if a Republican said that about Democrats. The paleo-media would go bonkers! How mean spirited! How hateful! How irresponsible! How reprehensible! But when a loved leftist makes such a statement about those on the right, well heck, no big deal.

Caroline Kennedy Author and attorney. She's a member of the influential Kennedy family and is the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Quote "I'm, you know, I am a proud Democrat. Those are the values, you know -- middle-class tax relief, you know, helping working families, fixing the health-care system . . . So, you know, those are the issues that I, you know, would expect -- I mean, I am a Democrat. That is, you know, I'm trying to become a Democratic Senator, so I don't, um, you know, there are issues along the way that I'm sure that, you know, people have differences of opinions on. . . I support gay marriage, I support, um, you know, ahhh, you know, problems with, you know, NAFTA. . ."

Discussing her positions on national issues during an interview with the New York Times December 27, 2008. Source: The O'Reilly Factor TV show, December 29, 2008, on Fox News. Posted here: January 12, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: The Kennedy name is still pretty powerful. Anybody else hoping for a Senate seat and making comments such as these would be laughed out of town. But if your name is Kennedy, such ineptness, incompetence, and shallowness can be excused.

Stephen King Award-winning, prolific, best-selling author, screenwriter, columnist, actor, producer and director. He has sold over 350 million copies of his books.

Quote "The fact is, that if you can read, you can walk into a job -- later on. If you don't, then you've got the army, Iraq, I don't know. Something like that."

In comments at the Library of Congress, April 4, 2008. Source: Credit: C-SPAN2/Breitbart.tv. Video shown on the Glenn Beck TV show, May 6, 2008. Posted here: May 10, 2008. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: The facts appear to stand in contrast to Mr. King's assertion. (Also.)

Hans Küng A Swiss Catholic priest, controversial theologian, and author. He became president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic in 1995. Although he is "a Catholic priest in good standing," the Vatican rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology. He had to leave the Catholic faculty at the University of Tübingen, but since 1996 has remained there as professor of ecumenical theology.

Quote "[T]raditional religions have an ethical obligation to cease to exist . . . there will be no room for religious diversity because if ethics is to function for the wellbeing of all, it must be indivisible. The Undivided World increasingly need [sic] an undivided ethic."

In his opus Global Responsibility: In Search of a World Ethic. Source: "The UN and One World Worship," by Fay Voshell, on the American Thinker website. Posted here: June xx, 2009. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: A March 11, 2011 article titled "Hans Küng Continues His Dissent," states: "Controversial Swiss-born Catholic theologian Hans [Küng] on Wednesday launched a new book attacking papal authority and calling on rank-and-file Catholics to seize control of the church from its clerical masters. The book Can the Church Still Be Saved? was set to go on sale in Germany Thursday, coinciding with the worldwide release of a book by Pope Benedict XVI titled Jesus of Nazareth – Part II.

William Kunstler Jurist, self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist.

Quote "It makes no difference anymore whether the attack on Tawana [Brawley] really happened. It doesn't disguise the fact that a lot of young black women are treated the way she said she was treated."

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, by Ann Coulter, 2007, page 150. Posted here: May 6, 2008. Quotes Homepage. Website Homepage.

Comment: It does indeed matter that the attack on Tawana Brawley did not happen as she claimed. Great damage was done. People's lives were changed. And it was all based on a lie.