This week's "Consummate Village-Celeb" Award: "The flip-flopping accusations that Bush hurls at Kerry is truly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Bush has clearly become accustomed to projecting his own inadequacies on to his opponent. I am flabbergasted by the American public's continued support for Bush even though he says one thing and does another." --Barbra Streisand
This week's "Village Victimitis" Award: "[W]e could lose the right to our bodies. ...f you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote." --Cameron Diaz on Oprah Winfrey's "Voting Party," which included P. Diddy sporting a "Vote or Die" T-shirt
From the Global Village: "My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world. I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language, or to hear their self-satisfied and incoherent platitudes." --Novelist Margaret Drabble, London Daily Telegraph
From the files of the Intellectually/Morally Challenged: "Oh I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime. Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another." --Peter Hansen, UN Relief and Works Agency **Political organization? Who is he kidding?
From the "Village Matriarch" Files: "This is the most anti-reproductive freedom President we've ever had. ...[John Kerry has] always been a feminist." --Uber-feminist Gloria Steinem **After the manicure John had before the debate Thursday, we believe the operative word is "feminized!"
From the Federalist Patriot Daily, 6 Oct. 2004