"Its 11PM on the East Coast:.......

sure there are many more awesome statements, quotes and soundbites - but these are some of the ones I came across.....and remembered......for various reasons.....

"We have a debt so enormous, the Chinese are legally allowed to keep us as pets" (Jon Stewart)

"Zero x Zero equals zero credibility" (apply that to whom you will......banks maybe? or most politicians? Dick Cheney? oh, and that other guy, Bush? Yeah, its a long list)

"Comedians' chant the world over 6 weeks into the McCain/Palin campaign: HALLELUJA!"

"Two skinny guys from Illinois made a difference, Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama"

"OJ has ruined SUV travel on the highway for all black people" (Jon Stewart on Obama being followed by reporters the day after his election)

"Even the Sperm banks are failing" (Stephen Colbert)

"A man so harmless he was nearly killed by a pretzel" (anonymous investor before he lost $5.5 bill on Bernie Madoff's ponzi scam)

"The first rule of recession: we do not talk about the recession" (it wasn´t George Bush)

"The Bank bailout: The Governments money for the Incompetence program" (a member of JP Morgan)

"What? Isn´t that like putting the donkey before the cart? Isn´t that just ass backwards?" (R Sen. David Vitter on giving the Big 3 Auto companies a loan before presenting an action plan. Vitter is best known for not resigning his seat after admitting involvement in a prostitution scandal)

"I need a shit, a shower and an internet connection" (Leo di Caprio in Body of Lies)

"Obama says we only have one president at a time. I´m afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have at the present time" (Barney Frank, House financial chairman)

"You can force a guy from office with a vote of no confidence? Because we haven´t had confidence in our guy for quite some time." (Jon Stewart on Canada´s government system)

"Ok. This guy is getting double digits. OJ is going to get out sooner" (on B. Rod's possible jailtime)

"Nothing says meglamaniac better better than telling your customers they´re wrong" (Keith Olberman on Bill O´Reilly)

"Women who have abortions are Nazis" (Rev. Rick Warren, the guy holding the invocation at Obama´s inauguration. NB: Dear Mr. President Gallant, I know you are trying to be reach out to all Americans - but this guy......honestly, I think it may be taking this bipartisanship thing a bit too far)

"He sunk his career so deep that not even a submarine can find the wreckage of that movie" (Mark Kermode on Guy Ritchie's latest film Rocknrolla)

"Jesus loves you but everyone else thinks you´re a tit." (anonymous on President Goofus)

"Its ok to believe in it with a passion, but the evidence isn´t overwhelming." (On England´s chances of ever winning the World Cup)

"Severed foot found on the shoreline. Officials were stumped." (headline in local Cornwall newspaper)

"Sure, he did "After Hours" a one-hit wonder. But it was downhill from there on in....no, I take that back. He went straight for the cliff. And jumped." (anonymous on director Griffin Dunne´s career.)

"Because of the limited space in our restaurant, we ask couples to share a table." (seen on the menu of a London restaurant)

"No one speaks for her but her – said a spokesman" (RNC staff member on Sarah Palin´s willingness to speak to the press)

"I don´t mean to belabour the point, but can you name any newspapers or magazines that you read?" (Katie Couric to Sarah Palin. And incase you were on Mars, she couldn´t.....name any)

"Bush regrets using bellicose language – he doesn´t like wars – he just like to blow things up – like bombing the shit out of Bagdad.
He wants to leave a legacy of international diplomacy – that’s a bit like the bull in the China shop saying: Is there anything else I can do? "(anonymous on Bush)

"Clever people live longer. Has to do with enzymes – stops the erosion of brain cells. Bad news for Colleen and Wayne." (Jon Holmes on Wayne Rooney´s chances of octogenarianism)

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry" (Gabriel Marquez Garcia)

Best, most passionate commentary of the year:

Keith Olberman on the passing of Proposition 8, banning the right for same sex marriages: (excerpt)

"And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics. This is about the human heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it.

What is this, to you? Nobody is asking you to embrace their expression of love. But don't you, as human beings, have to embrace... that love? The world is barren enough.

It is stacked against love, and against hope, and against those very few and precious emotions that enable us to go forward. Your marriage only stands a 50-50 chance of lasting, no matter how much you feel and how hard you work.
You don't have to help it, you don't have it applaud it, you don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while it may at first look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know. It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your fellow person just because this is the only world we have. And the other guy counts, too."
entire commentary: read it. Its pretty awesome.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27650743/#storyContinued

and the most spine-tingling,historical, life-changing, awesome announcement of 2008:

"Its 11PM on the East Coast and Barack Obama is projected to be the next President of the United States of America" (Keith Olberman on MSNBC, November 6th, 2008)



Oh, and heres my book recommendation for 2009:

Sock-cucker Fother-Mucker + 1001 Other Ways to Ineffectively conceal Profanity"
by Contessa Brewer