Gene Weingarten Quotes - Page 3

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• You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

  Gene Weingarten

  Support, Democracy, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If I lived where I live right now, and my kids were in middle school, they would be the only white kids in the school. That is not a burden I wanted to place on them. My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse - half and half, or close. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don't think that would have been fair to them.

  Gene Weingarten

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.

  Gene Weingarten

  Rhyming, Firsts, Idiot

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

  Gene Weingarten

  Guilty, Carter

  "Gene Weingarten: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2016.

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• On Twitter, people like me regularly get called "sore losers" by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don't know it yet.

  Gene Weingarten

  Eye, Winning, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won.

  Gene Weingarten

  Growing Up, Winning, Ego

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.

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  Stupid, Mind, Arrogant

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I am perhaps being charitable but I think there are a bunch of people out there who feel stupid. Some will be feeling stupid for stupid and evil reasons - HEY, TRUMP HASN'T DEPORTED ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE YET - and some will feel stupid for good reasons, such as that he lied about everything. But I think being made to feel stupid is damage.

  Gene Weingarten

  Stupid, Thinking, Evil

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

  Gene Weingarten

  People, Death Penalty, Argument

  "Chatological Humor: Monthly with Moron". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. April 25, 2017.

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• I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.

  Gene Weingarten

  Hate, Thoughtful, Intelligent

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don't know where to find these people. Do you?

  Gene Weingarten

  Intelligent, People, Cynical

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

  Gene Weingarten

  House, Constitution, Supreme Court

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

  Gene Weingarten

  Party, Together, Age

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The odd thing is that Trump's hand movements don't seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc. Trump's got about three moves, the most notable of which is his "okay" gesture, making a circle with his thumb and forefinger. Anyway, Trump has only a few gestures, including that one, and to my eye he uses them seemingly indiscriminately. I've seen him use the "okay/f.u." sign to be pedantic.

  Gene Weingarten

  Moving, Eye, Notable

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, Thinking, Matter

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.

  Gene Weingarten

  Wall, Mean, Two Sides

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

  Gene Weingarten

  Independent, Thinking, Might

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.

  Gene Weingarten

  White, Coincidence, Trump

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• I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Love Someone

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid - or at least unwise - but not necessarily racist.

  Gene Weingarten

  Stupid, Blow, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

  Gene Weingarten

  Cute, Smart, Clinton

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

  Gene Weingarten

  Two, Evil, Clinton

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Trump, Incapable

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Is it really the right of the media to dictate to the president whom he will allow in his press conferences? That's tetchier. And then there is the added issue of whether it would be a service to their readers, and the country at large, for, say, the Washington Post to take itself out of the room -- meaning they don't have the ability to ask important questions the president is obliged to answer? I think that would be a mistake.

  Gene Weingarten

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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