I Can't Believe You Said That!

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT!

Alphabetical Listing of Quoted Individuals: L.

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Melissa Lafsky

Writer for publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, Salon, Wired, Page Six Magazine, and Radar. She spent a year as a contributor and then associate editor at The Huffington Post, where she wrote reported pieces, editorials, and media commentary.

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""We don't know how much [Ted] Kennedy was affected by her [Mary Jo Kopechne's] death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. [. . .] [One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it."

Writing in the Huffington Post, August 27, 2009.

Source: "Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy -- Quote of the Year," Watchdog, February 2010, page 5.

Posted here: June 7, 2010.

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Comment: Sometimes boundless partisanship elicits utter silliness. I think we have an example here. Ms. Lafsky would have us believe Kopechne's influence on Kennedy's life [probably miniscule to insignificant] was sufficient to justify her dying a disparate and agonizing death by drowning. Such silliness borders on absolute looniness!

Matt Lauer

TV journalist, host of NBC's "The Today Show" since 1996. He is also a contributor for NBC's "Dateline NBC."

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"Us [sic] homo sapiens are turning out to be as destructive a force as any asteroid. . . . The stark reality is that there are simply too many of us, and we consume way too much, especially here at home. It will take a massive global effort to make things right, but the solutions are not a secret: control population, recycle, reduce consumption, develop green technologies."

Said June 14, 2006, while hosting "Countdown to Doomsday."

Source: "The Watchdog," MRC's monthly members' report, May 2012, page 8.

Posted here: January 13, 2014.

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Comment: On July 4th, 1994, Mr. Lauer said, "We hear the stories of discrimination in education and housing and jobs all the time. We hear the violence between races. Do you think it's possible that America is simply an inherently racist place?" (Source.) This is what liberals consider thought provoking. It is simply the way liberals think.

Jennifer Lawrence

Actress. Her films have grossed over $5.5 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. She appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2013, and in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2014 and 2016.

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"If Donald Trump is president of the United States, it will be the end of the world."

Said in comments to Vogue Magazine, for an article published November 2015. (Reference.)

Source: "Hollywood Leftists Smear Trump as Fascist, Racist, Sexist," The Watchdog, February 2017, page 3.

Posted here: June 4, 2018.

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Comment: Gee, most Trump haters just promise to leave the country if he's president. However, so far, it appears Ms. Lawrence is wrong. The world hasn't ended. At least not yet.

Fran Lebowitz

Author, public speaker, and occasional actress.

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"We should turn [Donald Trump] over to the Saudis, you know, his buddies. The same Saudis who got rid of that reporter, you know, [referring to Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post reporter who was tortured and dismembered by Saudi agents last year]. Maybe they can do the same for him."

Said during an appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show, while she and Maher ranted about POTUS and declared impeachment would "not even [scratch] the surface of what he deserves.”

Source: Tea Party PAC website

Posted here: June 3, 2019.

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Comment: More compassion and love from the Left. Can you imagine the firey rage that would have been unleashed if a conservative had said that of Barack Obama?

Dr. Bandy Lee

Psychiatry professor at Yale University.

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"As more time passes [with Donald Trump as President], we come closer to the greatest risk of danger, one that could even mean the extinction of the human species. This is not hyperbole. This is the reality."

Said during a January 3, 2018 interview with Politico.

Source: Newsweek web page.

Posted here: January 15, 2018.

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Comment: The referenced website article states: "Lee said that she and the other[s who think President Trump is mentally unfit for office] believe their writing doesn't violate the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, which bars members from commenting on the psychological health of someone they haven't actually examined. But, what is she doing? She's commenting on the psychological health of someone she hasn't actually examined. I guess I'd have to wonder about the psychological health of Dr. Bandy Lee.

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995.

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"[W]e have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."

Said on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

Source: The Limbaugh Letter, April 2014, page 12. See video of Ms. Lee making the statement.

Posted here: July 14, 2014.

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Comment: Let's see, the Constitution was ratified in 1788, when New Hampshire became the 9th of the 13 states to adopt it. By 1790, all 13 states had agreed to ratification. I never learned Common Core math, but I think 2014 minus 1788 doesn't equal 400. Or come anywhere close! It seems surprising that Ms. Lee, with her B.A. in political science from Yale University and J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, could not come a little closer to the correct answer.

Spike Lee

Film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.

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"I seriously wanted to pick up a gun and shoot whites. The only way to resolve matters is by bloodshed."

Said to the London Guardian newspaper upon visiting South Africa in the early 1990s.

Source: Spike Lee: Hollywood Hatemonger

Posted here: May 19, 2014.

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Comment: In an interview (quoted here), Mr Lee said that although anybody can be prejudiced, only white people can be racist. "I said a distinction has to be made, because they're not the same. Racism is an institution. For someone to be a racist, they have to have power behind them. Black people in this country have not been in that position." (I wonder if Mr. Lee thinks blacks can now be racist, since Mr. Obama is sitting in the White House.)

Don Lemon

A journalist and author, he is a news anchor for CNN and hosts CNN Tonight.

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"The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no white guy ban."

Said October 29, 2018 on CNN. (Video.)

Source: Blaze website

Posted here: November 5, 2018.

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Comment: Can you imagine a more racist statement?

Michael Lemonik

Senior staff writer at Climate Central and former senior science writer at Time magazine. He has written for Discover magazine, Scientific American, and other publications, as well as several books on science and astrophysics.

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"[S]hould we tell the whole truth about climate change? [. . .] [W]here’s the right balance between telling the whole truth and being truthful in an effective way?"

In an early-2001 remark to journalists at Climate Central.

Source: Should We Tell the Whole Truth about Climate Change? by Judith Curry. Also.

Posted here: March 26, 2012.

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Comment: Mr. Lemonik's remark is not unlike Al Gore's: "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations." Or Stephen Schneider's statement: "Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." That is to say, falsification in the name of achieving a desired outcome is perfectly acceptable.

Bertha Lewis

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Organizer of ACORN (2008-2010), which used to be a non-profit social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. until the organization disbanded in 2010. Ms. Lewis was a founding co-chair of the Working Families Party.

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"The Tea Party movement, a grassroots reaction against Big Government, is a bowel movement in my estimation."

In remarks before the Young Democratic Socialists, in April 2010.

Source: "Bringing Down the System," by Matthew Vadum, Whistleblower magazine, May 2011, page 21. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here: August 29, 2011.

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Comment: The Source states that Ms. Lewis openly embraced socialism. "First of all," she said, "let me just say any group that says,'I'm young, I'm democratic, and I'm a socialist,' is all right with me." In her YDS speech, she told the audience, "Immigration, immigration, and immigration. And the reason that this is so important is, you know, here's the secret. (Whispering.) We're getting ready to be a majority-minority country. Shhhh. We'll be like South Africa. More black people than white people. Don't tell anybody."

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Sophie Lewis

Dr. Sophie Lewis is an Philadelphia-based scholar, writer, theorist, translator and the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family.

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"We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona [virus] is an excellent time to practice abolishing it."

Said in an article published at the end of March 2020, titled, "The Coronavirus Crisis Shows It's Time to Abolish the Family."

Source: The Western Journal website.

Posted here: April 27, 2020.

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Comment: The Western Journal website states: "There are a myriad of other bizarre arguments made in Lewis' article. Most of them are basically feminist and communist critiques about how the male-headed family is oppressive and that we need a complete overhaul of how we think about economics and the family. Standard stuff for the left. In other words: In socialism, the state always comes before the family. [. . .] I can only imagine the examples of love and charity taking place right now are giving folks like Sophie Lewis a massive headache. And that's a good thing."

Adam Liptak

A lawyer and writer for The New York Times. He joined the news staff in 2002 and began covering the Supreme Court in 2008. He has written a column, "Sidebar," on developments in the law, since 2007.

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"[The U.S.] Constitution has seen better days [and] its influence is waning [partly because] it guarantees relatively few rights. [. . .] [T]he Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect [. . .] a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education, and health care."

Written in a New York Times front-page article February 7, 2012.

Source: "'Old' Constitution," The Watchdog, March 2012, page 5.

Posted here: April 9, 2012.

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Comment: Yes, yes, the Constitution is clearly out of step with something. Oh, I know, Marxism. Really, Mr. Liptak, "entitlement to food, education, and health care"? Hey, you forgot a 60-inch flat-screen TV, BMW, and vacation in Hawaii. And why not a guaranteed annual income of 100K while you're at it? You mentioned a right to travel. I guess all the travel restrictions in the Constitution are a real problem. No, wait. There aren't any travel restrictions in the Constitution. Mr. Liptak, what are you talking about?
The New York Times has described the Constitution as "terse and old." Further, "The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber." "Parsimonious"? Let me draw your attention to the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." That doesn't sound very parsimonious to me. "Frozen in amber"? I guess the Times prefers something loose and fluid, so it can be tweaked frequently as liberals change their minds about things.
The Times apparently doesn't like writings that are "terse and old" and "frozen in amber." Writings like, I suppose, the Ten Commandments.

James Livingston

A professor at Rutgers University.

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"OK, officially, I now hate white people. I am a white people [sic], for God's sake, but can we keep them -- us -- us out of my neighborhood? I just went to Harlem Shake on 124 and Lenox for a Classic burger to go, that would [be] my dinner, and the place is overrun with little Caucasian a--holes who know their parents will approve of anything they do. Slide around the floor, you little s--thead, sing loudly, you moron. Do what you want, nobody here is gonna restrict your right to be white. I hereby resign from my race."

Said in a Facebook posting, August, 2018.

Source: A New York Post article, dated September 8, 2018.

Posted here: September 24, 2018.

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Comment: The New York Post notes that Professor Livingston received a nastygram from representatives of Rutgers' terrifyingly-named Discrimination and Harassment, Workplace Violence, Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation Complaint Process. And now Professor Livingston may be punished in some as-yet-undetermined fashion. And maybe not.