Thirteen Stupid Things People Have Said

1. “I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or communist, but I meant no harm by it.”
–Jefferson B. Sessions III (R-Alabama), prior to his serving in the senate

2. “I shouldn’t say I’m a vegetarian because I love sweets.”
–LaToya Jackson

3. “We have very hazardous conditions due to a five-year drought, and lack of rain hasn’t helped any, either.”
–KABC-7 Reporter, Los Angeles

4. “ATOMIC BOMBERS UPSET OVER ENOLA HOMOSEXUAL EXHIBIT”
–A Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) headline, referring to the Smithsonian Institution’s planned exhibit on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the plane the Enola Gay

5. “Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.”
–Church Bulletin listing

6. “This global terrorism is everywhere.”
–Madonna

7. “The biggest problem with earthquake prediction studies is that you don’t know when there’ll be an earthquake.”
–Alasdair Skelton, Stockholm University, Sweden

8. “[This is] a place that would be pretty much like the place that I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.”
–Political pundit Alan Keyes, on the Chicago neighborhood he chose to rent in after moving to the state to run for the U.S. Senate.

9. Customer: “I’m an educated man, so don’t you dare talk down to me!”
Tech Support: “OK, sir. Do you have a desktop or tower case?”
Customer: “Don’t use that technical s*** with me!”
–Actual call to a computer tech-support line (I heard stuff like this ALL THE TIME while working at a call center for a cell phone provider.)

10. “A Thursday story incorrectly quoted Councilman Stewart Clifton as calling Mayor Bill Boner a ’squeeze-bag’. Clifton called Boner a ’sleaze-bag’.”
–From the Nashville Banner

11. “The sun rose promptly at dawn.”
–Tom Clancy’s novel The Teeth of the Tiger

12. “Justice ought to be fair.”
–President George W. Bush, speaking at the White House Economic Conference

13. “I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”
–Then Vice-President George H.W. Bush at a Press Conference at O’Hare Airport

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