Blair Looks Back Part II

Here is a sample quote from the remaining months of the year, as part of Tim Blair's quotes of 2005. Here is the first six months.

June:

* “Eight million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship.”—Keith Thompson quits the Left

May:

* “The progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies ... Muslims and the progressives are on the same side.”—George Galloway

April:

* “I didn’t actually say they were Eichmann, I said they were little Eichmanns.”—Ward Churchill clears things up regarding the 9/11 dead

March:

* “It is strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world ... We can see it.”—Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt

February:

* “It doesn’t take an awful lot of imagination if you’re thinking about who it is that might have produced these false documents to try to mislead people in this very cynical way.”—Democrat congressman Maurice Hinchey sees Rove’s hand in Rathergate

January:

* “Slight Turnout Is Expected as Iraqis Abroad Begin to Vote.”—a New York Times headline, subsequently removed

Quite a collection isn't it?