Yale Honors Christine O’Donnell With Top Quote of the Year
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Yale librarian says Christine O‘Donnell’s TV ad declaring “I’m not a witch” during her unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign has topped this year’s best quotes.
Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School, released his fifth annual list of the most notable quotations of the year. In the ad, O’Donnell was responding to reports of her revelations that she had dabbled in witchcraft years ago.
The quote by O’Donnell, a tea party favorite running in Delaware, tied for first place with “I’d like my life back,” the lament made in May by BP’s CEO Tony Hayward after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The original Yale Book of Quotations was published in 2006. Since then, Shapiro has released an annual list of the top 10 quotes.
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Comments (51)
Cool Arrow
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:38pmBest quote?
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david3755
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 5:00pmYale has a long way to go to catch up with the Oxford English Dictionary. This is not an impressive start.
Report Post »Alaskangriz
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:03pmIf you Touch My Junk….. You had better Kiss Me First!
Report Post »pacificgirl
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:59pm. Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday and it was kill the old guy.”
…Congressman Eric Massa
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:17pmOk we are talking about Yale. Let’s face it, to come up with real substance in their “Book of Quotations” they would need educated and intelligent individuals discerning what others say.
With that said – “Don’t touch my junk” should have won………. Yea yea I know!
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:54pmChristine said she wasn’t a witch. I have yet to hear Micelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi or Hilary declare that they are not witches.
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:17pmWait…. They’re not?
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:19pmI was kind of disappointed when I found out she wasn’t a witch, I was looking forward to her going to DC and making all of those morons disappear…
Report Post »Optimus81
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:36amAnyone else hearing Monty Python in their head?
Cause she turned me into a newt!!!
Report Post »rdk
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:00amI am not sure she told the truth.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:49amYale graduate: Van Jones.
Says it all.
Report Post »MamaofJ5
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:46amNo wonder kids are graduating college believing the crap the progressives teach, the know-it-alls can’t even choose a proper quote of the year. How stupid. I mean I can see future presidents using this in their speeches. Kids quoting this everywhere. I think of what should pass as quote of the year are say: “I have a dream..“ or ”ask not what your country can do for you…” etc., something along these lines. Maybe its just me. Although I can see an idiot statement making it, like “we gotta pass it to see whats in it..”
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:29amLet’s test her to see if she weighs less than a duck!
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:48amNo, we need to test the Yale folks. If they float, then they are witches and warlocks. If the sink and die, well, they weren’t.
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:24amThe difference between Yale and the Boy Scouts is the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Joe Biden should have won hands down for at least the top five.
Report Post »anigmanm
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:22ameveryone seems to forget nancy’s now more famous quote “unemployment insurance payments will stimulate the economy”
Report Post »Far Right
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:18amDumb.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:01am“ you have to pass it to find out whats in it ” The treasonous bitch.
Report Post »MightyMouth
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:59amCheck this out:
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hempstead1944
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:57amHardly seems worthy…..
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:53amwhat about, “but we have to pass the bill to find out what is in it” ????
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:44amIf the opposite of “Pro” is “Con”,…then what is the opposite of “Progress?”
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:07amNice!
Report Post »GodlessCanadian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:26amThe opposite of progress is tradition, or rather tradition stands in the way of progress.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 6:02pmObviously godless failed his intelligence check, he rolled a 1, critical fail!
Report Post »SearchForTruth
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:46pmPerfect.
THAT should be the ‘quote of the year.’
Report Post »WILKOWFAN
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:42amHow about, “If we get this bailout, unemployment won’t go above 8%.”
Report Post »g0yjs0
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:41amI thought, “Don’t TSA me, bro” was pretty good, too. :)
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:48amDidn’t hear that one… but I like it.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 6:00pmI think it was Leno that did that one, but not 100% positive.
Report Post »barrycooper
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:41amThis is an extension of what I have been calling nihilism. Yale is a several hundred year old de facto creator–and in theory preserver–of American tradition. If memory serves, it was founded, like Harvard, as a religious school. It is intended as a destination of choice for our supposed brightest and best, and usually richest and most priviledged, once one deducts the “demographic” kids.
And what is this clown doing? Indulging in decontextualized irony, on a topic of little importance. The fact that O’Donnell beat the incumbent, obvious Republican–but not conservative–choice is of great signficance. It signals a sea-change (that’s Shakespeare, for those of you who have attended the modern Post-Modern Yale) in our political life.
When you stop making sense–when you stop trying to make sense–when everything you say is either cant, derivative of cant, or nonsensical–then you have stopped thinking. And it is preciselyi because our thought elites have both stopped thinking and started shouting that we are in such desperate straights.
“From small things big things one day come.” That’s Dave Edmunds. That might be more familiar to you.
Report Post »Tractor
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:39amAtleast she won something for her efforts, the folks in Delaware missed out.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:50amAgreed !!!
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:50amDelaware opted for that beaded Marxist… bald headed fart Carville look alike. Serves them right… that is after all Joe Biden’s latrine.
Report Post »Tired_of_the_lies
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 4:16pmMissed out on having a moronic illiterate for a senator – phew…
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:31amDon’t touch my Junk should have won………………….
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:47am“I’m not a witch”????
That’s the best they could come up with?
Report Post »Obviously Yale has too much time on their hands to be worried about awarding people with Quotes of the Year.
TXPilot
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:48amI don‘t know why she had to claim she isn’t a witch……she looks nothing like Nancy Pelosi.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:55amWhat happened to “we have to pass the bill to know what is in it”. Or is that statement by Pelosi so stupid it redefines the genre?
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:04amThe academiacs are in rare form these days…they obviously haven’t been watching Pelosi, Olberman, Shuster, Sanchez, Biden, Obama, et al…
For the love of Pete, does the level of intentional truth avoidance displayed by these people know no bounds? Wow…
http://www.slugbuddies.com
Report Post »DearLeader
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:06am“Don’t touch my junk” finished third.
1. (TIE) “I’m not a witch.” Christine O’Donnell, television advertisement, Oct. 4.
1. (TIE) “I’d like my life back.” Tony Hayward, comment to reporters, May 30.
3. “If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested.” airline passenger John Tyner, remark to Transportation Security Administration worker at San Diego airport, Nov. 13, 2010
4. “Don’t retreat. Instead — reload!” Sarah Palin, Tweet, March 23.
5. “Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le! Los mineros de Chile!” Chant at Chilean mine rescue, Oct. 13.
6. “I hope that‘s not where we’re going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They’re saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?” Sharron Angle, radio interview in January.
7. “We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what is in it.” Nancy Pelosi, speech to National Association of Counties, March 9.
8. “I’m going to take my talents to South Beach.” LeBron James, television broadcast, July 8.
9. “You’re telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?” Christine O’Donnell, Delaware senatorial debate, Oct. 19. (The Associated Press reported the quote: “So you’re telling me that the separation of church and state, the phrase `separation of church and state,’ is in the First Amendment?”)
10. “They should never have put me with that woman. … She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.” Gordon Brown, comments about a voter he met while campaigning for British general election, Apr. 28.
source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132011028
Report Post »kreese
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:20amHave all of you forgot about the “corpseman” comment? After all, this came from a Nobel Prize winner! Such disrespect for our beloved president!
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:03amYale had an agenda, it wasn’t truely about the best quote.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:03pmAgreed with that.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:01pmShould have been “ there is more of us then them”
Report Post »dawgPound
Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:10am“I’m not a witch. I am a complte moron, however.”
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