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- 2015 NQ Awards Home
- The Obamagasm Award
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Ku Klux Con Job Award
for Smearing Conservatives With Phony Racism Charges -
The “What Difference Does It Make” Award
for Denying Hillary’s Scandals - Ruining the Revolution Award
- Damn Those Conservatives Award
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The Pantsuit Patrol Award
for Boosting Hillary Clinton -
The Hopeless Haters Award
for Denigrating the Conservative Candidates - Harsh to the Huddled Masses Award
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The Audacity of Dopes Award
for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year -
The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award
for Celebrity Vapidity - Quote of the Year
- 2015 NQ Judges
Media Coverage
In addition to discussions on numerous radio talk shows where hosts cited quotes or interviewed MRC representatives, the Best of NQ Awards issue has been highlighted by these outlets:
Print:
- Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen on December 20: "2015's worst progressive propaganda"
- World magazine, by Marvin Olasky, posted on December 22 (Jan. 9, 2016 print publication): "Old every evening: Mainstream media year in review"
- Column by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, in the December 28 Investor's Business Daily, "Worst Reporting and Punditry of 2015" (online Dec. 24); as posted on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
- Syndicated column by Cal Thomas, as posted on NewsBusters: "Taking Stock of Big Media's March Toward Oblivion"; on FoxNews.com, with video commentary: "Will the mainstream media corrupt our country even more in 2016?"
Online:
- Charisma News on December 17: "2015's Best Examples of Bad Media Reporting"
- Global Dispatch on December 18: "MRC names Melissa Harris-Perry the Worst of 2015 for offensive 'hard worker' is a racist term"
- Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard, on December 28: "Top media dopes and their wacky words of 2015"
- CaptolBeatOK, by Patrick McGuigan on January 3, 2016: "The Nation's Best of the Worst Reporting for 2015, from the Media Research Center"
- World magazine, by Marvin Olasky on December 31: "More from our wacky media pundits"
Video:
- One America News Network's Tipping Point segment with Ken Shepherd on December 18. Video
- Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends Saturday segment with Rich Noyes on December 19. Video.
- Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg Show segment with Tim Graham on December 22. Video
- FoxNews.com's Bias Bash posted December 28. Video commentary by Cal Thomas: "Top 5 worst examples of media bias in 2015"
Radio:
- Partial list (not including discussions by hosts without a guest): Interviews with MRC staff include appearances on WBAP (Dallas), KRC (Cincinnati), KPRZ (San Diego), WTMJ (Milwaukee), KFAB (Omaha), WPTF (Raleigh, NC), WQSC (Charleston, SC), WDEL (Wilmington, DE), KVOR (Colorado Springs), WWNC (Asheville, NC), WINA (Charlottesville, VA) and KBAR (Twin Falls, ID)
Damn Those Conservatives Award
Winner
Bryant Gumbel (56 points)
“There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they’re pigs. I think they don’t care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape.”
— Former NBC and CBS morning news host Bryant Gumbel, who currently hosts HBO’s Real Sports, in an interview with Rolling Stone posted January 20.
Runners-Up
Mark Bittman (50 points)
“The police killing unarmed civilians. Horrifying income inequality. Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe ‘safety net.’ An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats. A food system that causes disease. An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government. A sizable segment of the population excluded from work and subject to near-random incarceration. You get it: This is the United States, which, with the incoming Congress, might actually get worse.”
— New York Times food writer Mark Bittman in a December 14, 2014 piece for the paper’s “Sunday Review” section.
Paul Krugman (50 points)
“The entire Republican Party is controlled by climate denialists, and anti-science types more broadly. And in general, the modern GOP is basically anti-rational analysis; it’s at war not just with the welfare state but with the Enlightenment.”
— New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in an August 28 blog post for NYTimes.com.
Ayman Mohyeldin (36 points)
NBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin: “When you juxtapose it [the movie American Sniper] with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was.... a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues —”
Host Joe Scarborough: “Wait, wait. Killing sprees? Chris Kyle was going on killing sprees?”
Mohyeldin: “When he was involved in his — on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.”
Host Joe Scarborough: “Wait, wait. Killing sprees? Chris Kyle was going on killing sprees?”
Mohyeldin: “When he was involved in his — on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, January 29.