Last night on the MSNBC show Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, dipped into his bag of quotes and pulled out one from Joseph Stalin. As Scarborough was digging through some of Hurricane Katrina's wreckage in Mississippi, he found a picture of an elderly couple and stated something to this effect: "As Joseph Stalin once said, 1 million deaths is just a statistic, but one death is a tragedy."

And who'd know better than our beloved Uncle Joe, who chalked up about 20 million deaths during his tenure as Soviet dictator! Wow, think about it comrades--a former Republican congressman quoting Stalin so unabashedly and without qualification, thereby tacitly endorsing the utopian experiment. He obviously knew who to go to bring more gravitas to his own thoughts. It seems like Chris Matthews is starting to rub off on Joe.

Our influence in the media is even more powerful than we thought! Now, we've manipulated our enemies into helping us rehabilitate the image of Uncle Joe. Maybe tonight, Scarborough will trot out some wisdom from Mao, Kim il-Sung, or even Pol Pot!

Now we have to make everyone quote Lenin and Stalin

I kinda like him, but he is a little retarded. He sort of gets the picture but swings and misses alot. he's like a dumber Sean Hannity. As far as his quotes, he probably doesn't have more than a wedge in his bag of verbal clubs.

Here are a few more gems of wit and wisdom from socialist icons that Joe can use to impress his pals in the MSM.

"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." --Josef Stalin

"When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use." --Josef Stalin

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." --Noam Chomsky

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists are throwing it away." --Fidel Castro

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." --Mao Tse-tung

"I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader." --Pol Pot

"I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country." --Pol Pot