Media Matters Top 10

On Saturday we brought you The Top Ten at the trough. Today it's Media Matters for America's TOP TEN MOST OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS OF 2004.

• Rush Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib photos: "I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?"


• Ann Coulter: "[Senator John] Kerry will improve the economy in the emergency services and body bag industry."


• Tony Blankley called philanthropist George Soros "a Jew who figured out a way to survive the Holocaust."


• Michael Savage: "When you hear 'human rights,' think gays. ... [T]hink only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son."


• Oliver North: "Every terrorist out there is hoping John Kerry is the next president of the United States."


• Pat Robertson on gays and lesbians: "[S]elf-absorbed hedonists ... that want to impose their particular sexuality on the rest of America."


• Pat Buchanan: "[H]omosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism."


• Bill O'Reilly to Jewish caller: "[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel."


• Bill Cunningham (Clear Channel radio host who appeared as a guest on The Sean Hannity Show): The election is over because "Elizabeth Edwards has now sung."


• Jerry Falwell: "And we're going to invite PETA [to "wild game night"] as our special guest, P-E-T-A -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. We want you to come, we're going to give you a top seat there, so you can sit there and suffer. This is one of my special groups, another one's the ACLU, another is the NOW -- the National Order of Witches [sic]. We've got -- I've got a lot of special groups."

This is the New Republican Party. This is not the party of Eisenhower, Goldwater or even Reagan.