North Korean propaganda is in a category all its own. It is not surprising that North Korea is sending more cheerleaders and musicians than…
“North Korean propaganda is in a category all its own. It is not surprising that North Korea is sending more cheerleaders and musicians than athletes.” — Michael Anton, a spokesman for the National Security Council, on the announcement that North and South Koreans will march under one flag at the Winter Olympics next month (Wednesday, The New York Times)
“The Cowboys’ new receivers coach is Indian. And you thought your team’s touchdown celebrations this season were impressive. Get ready to see Cowboys players use the goalpost like a tree in a Bollywood movie and dance around it.” — Paul Varghese, a Dallas comedian on the Cowboys hiring Sanjay Lal (Wednesday, Twitter)
“Congrats to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who just welcomed a baby girl this week! I don’t have a joke for that — I just wanna think back to the good old days when THAT would be our lead story. Remember that? Wasn’t that nice?” — Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon (Wednesday, Newsmax)
“It’s come out that President Trump enjoys eating cheeseburgers in bed, which explains why Melania likes to go to bed disguised as a salad.” — Late night host Conan O’Brien discussing some of what was written in Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury” (Wednesday, Newsmax)
“When you get to a point where you’re losing money, you have to do what is best for the facility to make sure the community still has a hospital.” — Yoakum Community Hospital chief executive Karen Barber on some hospitals in rural Texas ending labor and delivery services (Wednesday, Texas Tribune)
” We made the playoffs. Now we’ve got work to do.” — Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on Amazon naming Dallas one of 20 finalist cities for the company’s second headquarters (Thursday, Dallasnews.com)
“Sen. [Chuck] Schumer said this very tactic, this very strategy a few years ago was ‘governmental chaos.’ Nancy Pelosi called it ‘legislative arson’. This is exactly what they’re doing and it’s completely unnecessary to hold the government hostage for something that’s completely unrelated.” — House Speaker Paul Ryan discussing Senate Democrats holding up a temporary spending bill over DACA and forcing a government shutdown (Friday, Mediaite)
“We Democrats believe that we want to do everything we can to avoid a shutdown, but we Democrats believe if there is one, it will fall on the Republicans’ backs — plain and simple.” — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Thursday, The New Yorker)
“We’ve narrowed the list a lot. We wanted to narrow it so we prevent this kind of auction process that we want to stay out of.” — Apple chief executive Tim Cook on a proposed second headquarters, which he said will not be in California or Texas (Friday, Newsweek) What’s your view?
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