Opinion: And the envelope please
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Howard Mortman is a funny fellow onstage or on the web. He writes a blog out of Washington.
He’s decided, given the onrush of this earliest of early political seasons, not to wait for year’s end to compile his list of Top Ten Funniest Political and Media Quotes.
We won’t list them all here. Howard deserves his own share of page views at this web address. But some of our favorites include:
No. 9 Larry King: ‘Paris Hilton. Tomorrow night, Colin Powell.’
No. 6 Tommy Thompson: ‘I’m in the private sector and for the first time in my life I’m earning money. You know, that’s sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that.’
No. 4 Larry King: ‘John Edwards is a gay?’
No. 3 David Gregory of NBC: ‘Now switching to a lighter note, it’s a murder, rather, actually, not quite a lighter note, still a difficult topic.’
No. 2 Republican presidential debate moderator: ‘Gov. Romney, Daniel Duchovnik from Walnut Creek, Calif. wants to know, ‘What do you dislike most about America?’’
And Howard Mortman’s No. 1 quote for the first half of 2007, Newt Gingrich: ‘I’d forgotten how big a tourist attraction I am.’
--Andrew Malcolm