Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | DECEMBER 15, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

I want to read a few quotes about Twitter’s practices, and I just want you to tell me if they’re true or not: “Social media is being rigged to censor conservatives.” Is that true of Twitter?

- Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Penn) to then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at a 2018 congressional hearing

No.

– Dorsey’s response ,which this week was exposed to be a complete lie

Are you censoring people?

- Doyle

No.

- Dorsey’s response

“Twitter’s shadow-banning prominent Republicans”… is that true?

- Doyle If a priest came in here, would you ask him to take off his cross, if the pope, would you have him take off his cross and head covering?

- Dr. Cyrille Cohen, head of immunology at Bar Ilan University, when he was asked during an appearance on French TV why he was wearing his yarmulka

MLB should apologize to Georgia for its $100 million lie. MLB lied about Georgia’s election law and moved the All-Star Game. Despite MLB lies, Georgia’s November election was a grand slam. MLB move the All-Star Game over election lies and cost Atlanta $100 million.

- A mobile billboard outside of Major League Baseball’s winter meetings slamming the league for moving the 2021 Allstar game out of Georgia in protest over the now-proven false narrative that Georgia’s voting laws would suppress minority votes

When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans’ lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans. That’s why I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.

– Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema explaining in an op-ed why she left the Democrat Party and became an independent

I was underneath it, trying to clog, and I said, “Blow some air through the line.” Then, suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas. And then the pilot light jumped, and my face caught on fire. My friend pulled me out and jumped on top of me and kind of smothered the fire.

– Comedian Jay Leno explaining how he got burnt working on his 1907 White Motor Co. steam-powered car last month

- Report by NBC after the Biden administration secured the release of WNBA player Brittney Griner by exchanging her for a Russian arms dealer with American deaths on his hands and failed to secure the release of Paul Whelan, an Iraqi war veteran who remains imprisoned in Russia since 2018 on trumped up charges (NBC later changed the report without explanation)

I am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four-year anniversary of my arrest is coming up. I was led to believe that things were moving in the right direction and that the governments were negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon. I don’t understand why I’m still sitting here.

– Prisoner Paul Whelan, in an interview with CNN from his Russian jail, after Griner’s release

The fact that Russia pushed through the exchange of Bout, whom America fundamentally did not want to give away for many years, right now means that, like in “The Godfather,” we “made them an offer that cannot be refused.” This is a position of strength, comrades.

- Gleeful social media post by convicted Russian spy Maria Butina

I know that we’re all happy that Brittney’s home, like we said earlier on. But when you think about the magnitude of what we traded to get back a WNBA professional athlete, and left a Marine sitting there, whose family has been trying for years to get him out of there with nothing, nothing from the U.S. government. I kinda feel like the Russians basically were using her to get this guy out. It’s not an even swap; it’s not. We all know what happened to Brittney should have never happened. We look so pathetic. And listening to our President talk about this is such a pathetic feeling. I want to be happy, but I can’t be.

- 660 WFAN radio host and former Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason The truth: Trump called my dad for months DEMANDING that he run. Everyone with a brain begged him: “PLEASE DON’T DO THIS. This is too dirty, you have an insane past… PLEASE DON’T DO THIS. Republicans, we say we don’t play “identity politics,” and then you ran this man mainly because he was the same skin color as his opponent with no background other than football. A boring old Republican could have won.

- Christian Walker, a conservative social media influencer and son of Republican Herschel Walker, on social media after his estranged father lost the Georgia senate race

I was called a backstabber after getting angry and blowing up from watching my dad lie for 18 months straight… But he’s not a backstabber for leaving his 2 minor children…to grow up without a dad as he chases more fame and power? Pathetic. Raise your kids.

- Ibid

President Biden tweeted this morning about the release of W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner from a Russian prison and said, quote, “She is safe, she is on a plane, she is on her way home.” And I’d say, “She’s happy, but she’s still a 6-foot-9 person on a plane.”

— Seth Meyers

If we don’t take our medicine here, it’s our fault.… Every Republican in this country ought to hold Donald Trump accountable for this.

- Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) after Republican senate candidate Herschel Walker was defeated in the Georgia run-off election

What it does is it really is – turns people away, I’m afraid, younger individuals who were interested in getting into public health might say, “What is all this about?” where public health officials who are doing nothing more or less than trying to save people’s lives by promoting and public health principles get attacked for reasons that seem inexplicable.

- Dr. Anthony Fauci on MSNBC responding to Musk’s tweets, showing great concern for young people

In this case, the magazine’s editorial directives remain within the boundaries of the panEuropean mainstream, which is totally short-sighted, anti-Russian and vehemently Russophobic.

- President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman complaining that Time Magazine’s decision to name Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its Person of the Year was “Russophobic”

No, not John Fetterman!! Recount!!

- Giselle Barreto Fetterman, on Twitter, after her husband, John Fetterman, made the New York Times’ list of most stylish people for 2022