overlooked quotation

[Jonathan Lighter]

Which reminds me. On Fox News they like to say, in bitterly ironic tones,
"Blame America first!"  It's what radical-liberals of the Democrat party do.

Not in YBQ.

1984 Jeanne Kirkpatrick in William Safire _Lend Me Your Ears_ (N.Y.: Norton,
2004) 1028: When our marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational
peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were
murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" did not blame the
terrorists who murdered the marines - they blamed the United States. But
then, somehow, they always blame America first.


JL



On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not in YBQ:
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> 1969 Jorge Sempru'n & Costa-Gavras _Z_ (film): Always blame the USA! Even
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