“A House Divided” – the Political Pundits Versions

LINCOLN’S FAMOUS QUOTE: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”        Abraham Lincoln         Speech at the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858

OBERMANN’S VERSION: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half smart and half stupid.”        Keith Olbermann        Liberal media pundit        Comment on Republican Congressman Joe Wilson yelling "You lie! at President Obama        On MSNBC's Countdown TV show, Sept. 10, 2009

BECK’S ODD VERSION: “Over 50% of the African-American community now believes that the cure of AIDS exists but the Government won’t release it because AIDS kills poor people. That’s frightening. A house divided against itself cannot fail.”        Glenn Beck        Conservative media pundit        On his radio show, March 24, 2008

COLBERT QUIP: “A house divided against itself cannot stand, but it's worth squat in this market anyway.”        Stephen Colbert        The supposedly faux political pundit        On his Colbert Report TV show, Jan. 13, 2009

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History repeats itself again

FAMOUS KARL MARX QUOTE: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”        Karl Marx (1818-1883)        German philosopher and political theorist        Paraphrase of a passage in Marx's 1852 essay, “Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”

HISTORIAN’S COUNTERQUOTE: “History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”        Philip Guedalla (1899-1944)        British historian and biographer        In Supers and Supermen (1920)

GRIMMY’S VERSION: “The History Channel repeats itself.”        The Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip, June 2006        Written and drawn by Mike Peters (b. 1943)

ENIGMATIC BECK VARIATION: “Hollywood people and all these liberals, all these just great thinkers, they don't understand that history repeats itself…They can't recognize themselves that there are only like four movies that have ever been made, and half of them star Gene Hackman and the other half star Bruce Willis.”        Glenn Beck (b. 1964)        Conservative TV and radio talk show host        On his radio show, February 11, 2008

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