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Anchor Katie Couric: “Gas is the lowest it’s been all year, a nationwide average of $2.23 a gallon. It hasn’t been that low since last Christmas. But is this an election-year present from President Bush to fellow Republicans?”
Reporter Anthony Mason: “...Gas started going down just as the fall campaign started heating up. Coincidence? Some drivers don’t think so.”
Man in a car: “And I think it’s basically a ploy to sort of get the American people to think, well, the economy is going good, let’s vote Republican.”
— CBS Evening News, October 16. As Mason spoke, the camera zoomed in on the driver’s bumper sticker, “GOP: Grand Oil Party.” [72 points]
Runners-up:
ABC’s Steve Osunsami: “In many black neighborhoods, they actually believe that white residents sent the barge that destroyed the levee and flooded their communities.”
Unidentified black man, in HBO’s film by Spike Lee: “They had a bomb. They bombed that sucker.”
Osunsami: “To this day, the conspiracy theories are so widely held, director Spike Lee put them on film....”
Spike Lee, director: “As an African-American in this country, I don’t put anything past the government.”
— ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson, August 29. [69]
“The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before the 2004 presidential election. Now here we are, four days away from hearings starting in Washington into the wiretapping of America’s telephones without bothering to get a court order or a warrant, and up pops another tape from Osama bin Laden. Coincidence? Who knows.”
— CNN’s Jack Cafferty during the 4pm EST hour of The Situation Room, January 19. [59]
“Late in the same week that an NSA whistleblower suggests the illicit tapping of American phones is thousands of times larger and thousands of times less focused than the President claims, suddenly we have FBI sources linking stories about Middle Easterners trying to buy vast quantities of untraceable, disposable American cell phones from K-Marts and Target stores. Which, if true, makes the wiretapping look like a good idea and its leakers look like they’ve already helped terrorists outsmart the eavesdropping. Boy, you can’t buy timing like that. I mean it. I’m asking seriously, you can’t buy timing like that, right?...We’ll never know for sure if that is or is not just an amazing coincidence that it falls right after the whole NSA whistleblower issue comes up but, as we had pointed out here before, the administration sure gets a lot of these breaks.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to Time reporter Mike Allen on the January 13 Countdown. [39]
