Leftist Lunatics

Straw men II: "[Republicans] want more people to fry. They love executions. They want people that don't have insurance to die on the gurney in the hospital bed. They want that to happen. They want -- forget about illegal aliens. Gay soldiers, forget about them. They're not -- they're to be booed. If you have a home, foreclose on the people. If you're a teacher, fireman or a cop, get rid of the guy. I mean, this attitude of causing cruel pain on people and getting cheers for it, what's that about?" --MSNBC's Chris Matthews


Credit: "How many more dictators does [Obama] have to take down with NATO before the Republicans will give the president any credit at all without political calculation involved? This is another reason why those protesters are out in the streets of our country." --MSNBC's Ed Schultz


"As one of my callers said this morning on my show, the Republican Party is like some of the banks down south, right? They refuse to give a black man credit. Period. I mean, he could carry their mother out of a burning building, and they wouldn't give him any credit." --radio talk-show host Bill Press


It's bad messaging: "[Obama] has done these incredible things. He killed bin Laden! He set off the Arab Spring by going to Egypt and saying, 'Tear down these dictators,' and they did! He's ending the war in Iraq. He has fundamentally transformed our health care system. ... [He] has done so many very good things ... and the media doesn't even acknowledge it. The Democrats aren't doing a good job of messaging it." --radio talk-show host Thom Hartmann


That's racist! "We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and that's what we ought to be doing. And I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man." --radio talk-show host Tom Joyner


Wealth redistribution: "I would enact a 50% inheritance tax, because nothing is more un-American than an inherited elite that perpetuates itself." --TIME columnist and CNN host Fareed Zakaria