Alan Simpson: “Grandchildren now don't write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they're walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg.”….Mike Huckabee on Obama: “Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings….not madrassas.”…. Lawrence O’Donnell on Huckabee: “Has now fallen below the already low standard for integrity that we have come to expect from former governors of Arkansas.”….Chris Matthews on Newt Gingrich: “Looks like a car bomber. He's got that crazy Mephistophelian grin.”…. Sarah Palin on Kathy Griffin: “A 50-year-old adult bully.”….Farhad Manjoo on the FAX machine: “I can’t wait to dance on its grave.”….

Former Libya UN rep Abdul Rahman Shalgam on Gaddafi: “You are over. Go away.”…. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour: “In the United States, it's harder to get a permit to mine coal than it is to get a heart transplant.”….NYT editor Bill Keller: “If you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're probably one of the most cynical people on planet Earth.”…. Walter Kirn on ‘Two and a Half Men’: “It could have made a ‘star’ of anyone who stuck his live head in the cut-out hole it offered.”…. Cintra Wilson on Charlie Sheen: “The poet laureate of all once and future megalomaniac sex-addicted crackheads.”….Liam Gallagher on Radiohead: “Writing a song about a f—ing tree? Give me a f—ing break! A thousand year old tree? Go f— yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week.”….

Gaddafi on al-Qaeda: “They give [the protesters] pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.”…. Glenn Beck on Reform Judaism: “It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way."….ADL head Abe Foxman on Beck: “Bigoted ignorance.”…. Phyllis Schlafly: “If there’s one thing feminists love, it’s divorce.”….Daily Astorian on Rep. David Wu: “Becoming an embarrassment.”….Victoria Jackson on Hollywood: “They don’t just dislike Christians, they hate God…You don't know how liberal it is, even the Christians are communist."….

Muammar Gaddafi on Libya protesters: "Rats."....Former ambassador Abdel-Moneim al-Houni on Gaddafi: “Betrayed his nation and his people.”…. Michele Bachmann on Obama: “Bending down to dictators, and he is brown-nosing the elites that are in Europe, and he's babying the jihadists who are following Sharia-compliant terrorism."….Wisconsin state Sen. Tim Carpenter on Gov. Walker: “A dictator.”…. Rush Limbaugh on Wisconsin protestors: “Freeloaders.”….Ed Schultz on Limbaugh: “Hey Rush, why don't you wrap your fat ass in the flag. ”….

Jonathan Lethem: “Brooklyn is repulsive with novelists, it's cancerous with novelists.”…. George Soros on Fox News: “Has imported the methods of George Orwell…Newspeak, where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them.”….Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio on Gov. Rick Scott rejecting fed high speed rail funding: “The worst decision by a governor in my 26 years in public life.”…. Orlando Sentinel on Scott: “Utterly clueless.”….Dem Party rep Eric Jotkoff: “A one-man wrecking crew for Florida’s economy.”…. St. Petersburg Times: “A reckless, devastating decision.”….