- Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay maturely responding to NDP leader Jack Layton’s recent calls for negotiations with the Taliban and Hezbollah of peaceful solutions.
- Barbara Bush, former US First Lady and mother to current US President George W. Bush, on September 5, 2005, commenting on the conditions of the evacuees in the New Orleans Superdome (audio clip).
- Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland Security, on September 3, 2005, at the start of a news briefing.
- CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu on September 1st, 2005, after listening to her thank Senators Bill Frist and Harry Reid for their aid in Congress.
- George W. Bush on August 31, 2005, flubbing through a script at his first press conference since Katrina hit (video).
- TV pundit and Floridian Fred Barnes, on August 29, 2005, suggesting that people in New Orleans shouldn’t expect to be bailed out with taxpayer money because they should have known better than to live below sea level.
- CNN correspondant Kyra Phillips unknowingly speaking into a live mic during CNN’s broadcast of US President Bush’s Katrina speech in New Orleans.
- Jason Kenney, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Parliamentary Secretary and de facto Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, trying to squirm out of a revelation that he spoke at a rally organized by an Iranian terrorist group last April, welcoming them on his own behalf as well as the Prime Minister. This, just days after he compared Hezbollah to the Nazis and chided opposition MPs for suggesting dialogue with the Lebanese militia.
- Mark Wainberg, conference co-chair and director of the McGill University AIDS Centre addressing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s deicision to stay away from the International AIDS Conference in Montreal.
- Boy George, on the first day of court-appointed community service as a garbageman in New York.
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