# Rachel Marsden

Rachel Marsden (born December 2, 1974) is a Canadian conservative political columnist and television commentator based in Paris. She is the former host of a talk show on Sputnik News and is a columnist for the Toronto Sun. Her column is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency and she is a regular contributor to the English and French services of the RT news channel.

## Quotes

* Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.
** cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad serves up a triple scoop of crazy, sprinkled with crazy, and topped off with warm crazy sauce.
** cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* For Dick Cheney, it must have felt just like any other day at the office: Folks who don't shave, don't bathe, and want him dead. Wow, feels just like back home!
** Toronto Sun column
** cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* Al Gore could really pollute a bathroom … Just look at the guy. If someone doesn't take away his pork 'n' beans, he's bound to get another one of those 'gut feelings' and mistake his own greenhouse gas production for science!
** Toronto Sun column
** cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* The Second Amendment was meant to give citizens the right to bear arms against the government, back when Uncle Sam's toys were as lame as yours… Handguns are sheer lunacy
** On gun control in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings
** Blasting the myths By Rachel Marsden. Published Toronto Sun, April 23, 2007
* Well I think we do have to define torture. One man’s torture is another man’s CIA’s sponsored swim lesson.
** On waterboarding
** CNN The Situation Room, October 31, 2007
* I don't really pay much attention to it anymore. It's pretty ridiculous. I view it as a giant graffiti board for people with axes to grind — or for guys named Jimbo Wales who want to dump their girlfriends.
** On Wikipedia
** Canadian pundit, Wikipedia founder in messy breakup
* While the Democratic-led congress hits a record low nine percent approval rating despite high pre-election hopes, the even further left-leaning embodiment of that epic failure is now shuffling around the globe, sending crowds into frenzies through speeches pimped out with eminently forgettable rhetoric that would make great political speechmakers like Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill scratch their heads.
** On Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's candidacy
** Barack Obama Has Little In Common With Europe
* Never has outright racism been so exciting or so chic — both here in America and abroad! Kumbaya! In fact, a German paper called him “the black JFK”, which is an insult to the late President Kennedy, who -- again, leaving aside the blatant racism here — was nowhere near as far left as Obama.
** On the candidacy of African-American US presidential candidate Barack Obama
** Barack Obama Has Little In Common With Europe
* Sarkozy was elected last year by insisting on immigrants speaking French and insisting that they integrate into the French culture...Obama’s call for Americans to learn Spanish to accommodate the onslaught of Mexican immigrants makes the French government sound like Rush Limbaugh.
** Contrasting Barack Obama with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
** Barack Obama Has Little In Common With Europe

## About Marsden

* She has very passionate opinions...she's articulate, intelligent, and we get a lot of favorable mail about her.
** senior TV producer Shelly Stevenson in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* Oh god, she is feminism's worst nightmare.
** Neil Boyd, an SFU criminology professor in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0. Salon.com.
* I think they just thought she would be a good kind of lightning rod. We did one or two rehearsals, and I know for a fact that people liked her legs.
** Greg Gutfeld, host of late-night TV show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, in the At 2 A.M., Dark Humor Meets the Camera Lights, The New York Times (April 10, 2007)

## External links

* Official Site