“Just going to be fun, don’t you think? Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, you know? And I want to say that I was always on Darth Vader’s side.”
— Bill Kristol, commenting on the back-to-back speeches by President Obama and Dick Cheney May 21, 2009, as quoted by Karl Frisch at Media Matters.

“Now you tell us. You know, as one of the main intellectual forces behind the Iraq war, that’s kind of a weird thing to admit. You might have wanted to mention, ‘Oh, quick caveat to my plan on a new American century: I’m on the Darth Vader side.’ ”
— Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, responding to Kristol.

“The morning of 9/11the evening of 9/11before 9/119/119/11after 9/11since 9/119/119/119/119/11the point is not to look backwards.”
— Dick Cheney’s speech, as edited by The Daily Show.

“This was as sleazy a presentation by a vice president as we’ve had since Spiro Agnew. This was an absolute abomination.”
— Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s Hardball.

[H/T to Media Matters.]