Best of NQ 2012 Public Ballot

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting


The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award
for Celebrity Vapidity

Winner

Jamie Foxx (1850 votes)

“First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama!”
— Actor Jamie Foxx during the Soul Train Awards, November 25 on BET.


Runners-Up

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Barbra Streisand (1046 votes)

“Compared to George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, Obama has been more fiscally conservative than any other president in recent history, with the exception of President Bill Clinton.”
— Singer/actress/liberal activist Barbra Streisand writing on The Huffington Post under a heading that read “Here are truths they will try to bury,” September 18.


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Cher (566 votes)

“If ROMNEY gets elected I don’t know if i can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters”
— Actress/singer Cher in a May 8 Twitter posting that was later deleted (grammar and punctuation as in the original).


David Letterman (454 votes)

“The day after the 9/11 attacks, the number one priority in America, if not the world, was we’ve got to get bin Laden, we’ve got to get bin Laden. So eight years go by, we still haven’t got bin Laden. George W. Bush at one point said, well, he doesn’t really think too much about bin Laden. In the interim, we invaded Afghanistan, then we invaded Iraq because Cheney wanted to help out his buddies at Brown and Root and Halliburton….and grab up all the oil. I think that they went soft on the project because they were worried about upsetting their Saudi Arabian royalty buddies. So now Osama bin Laden finally is gunned down by Barack Obama, displaying great courage and great intelligence. What more do you want to lead your country than that kind of courage and that kind of intelligence?”
— Host David Letterman to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on the May 15 CBS Late Show.


Morgan Freeman (239 votes)

“I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama….He has proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he’s managed to get accomplished in the face of so much pushback is amazing. And I think — this is Morgan Freeman’s personal thought — we’re going to be in a lot of trouble if we don’t re-elect him because people on the other side of the fence scare me.”
— Actor Morgan Freeman on PBS’s Tavis Smiley, June 19.


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Mila Kunis (233 votes)

“The way that Republicans attack women is so offensive to me. And the way they talk about religion is offensive. I may not be a practicing Jew, but why we gotta talk about Jesus all the time? And it’s baffling to me how a poor person in Georgia can say, ‘I’m a Republican.’ Why?”
— Actress Mila Kunis as quoted by USA Today’s Ann Oldenburg in an October 8 Web posting.


Sigourney Weaver (52 votes)

“To me, the Democrats — and I’m not a professional politician, so forgive me if it’s very simplistic — but to me, the Democrats are always going to be about what the people need. And the Republicans are much more serving big business, and I don’t think we can afford to serve big business for another four years with Mr. Romney.”
— Actress Sigourney Weaver on NBC’s Meet the Press “Press Pass” segment, July 15.