Quote of the Day (January 12, 2011)

Liberals Seek Ban on Metaphors In Wake of Arizona Shooting
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Ann Coulter at Human Events:

"The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011... is MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin's statement, 'We're not retreating, we're reloading,' and said, I quote, 'THAT'S not a metaphor.' Really, Chris? If that's not a metaphor, who did she shoot? By blaming a mass killing on figures of speech, liberals sound as crazy as Loughner with his complaints about people's grammar. Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again... Every friend of Loughner who has characterized his politics has described him as liberal. Not one called him a conservative... If any public figure influenced this guy, my money's on Bill Maher."

- JP