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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.)

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.