Year End Awards: The Best Notable Quotables of 2012

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

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The Obamagasm Award

The "Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste" Award for Exploiting Tragedy to Promote Liberalism

The Sandra Fluke Award for Promoting Obama's Phony “War on Women”

The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges

The Politics of Personal Destruction Award for Ripping Romney

Damn Those Conservatives Award

Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews

The True But False Award for Fatuous Fact Checking

The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award for Burying Obama’s Benghazi Scandal

The Media Hero Award

The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year

MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award

Good Morning Morons Award

The Denying the Obvious Award for Refusing to Acknowledge Liberal Bias

The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

Quote of the Year

2012 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:

Television:

FNC's Hannity on December 17 played several clips with MRC President Brent Bozell as a guest to offer comment. Video
FNC's Fox NewsWatch on December 29 highlighted the winners in two categories. Video

Print:

Washington Examiner, "Washington Secrets" by Paul Bedard on December 18: "Mainstream scream of year: MSNBC Harris-Perry host slaps July 4th"
Washington Times, "Inside the Beltway" by Jennifer Harper on December 18: "Eternal Gas Bag"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, column by L. Brent Bozell III on December 23: "Media’s most notorious quotes for 2012"
Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen on December 27: "Another year of liberal media bias"
Waterbury (CT) Republican-American, January 1, 2013 editorial: "Chronicles of Bias XXV"

Online:

World magazine, by Marvin Olasky on November 30: "Silver anniversary of bias watching"
World magazine, by Marvin Olasky on December 1: "Getting it wrong"
The American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer December 4 on Spectator.org: "Poisoned Pens, Poisoned Lenses: The Establishment media’s sickness unto death"
Watchdog.org, by Patrick B. McGuigan on December 17: "Notable Quotables analysis documents legacy media bias"
PowerLine blog, by John Hinderaker on December 17: "Most Outrageous Reporting of 2012"

Quote of the Year

Melissa Harris-Perry

“The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class….This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

— MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry on her eponymous July 1 program, delivering what she called “my footnote for the Fourth of July.”[MP3 Audio]

Quote of the Year runners-up

Welcome to the Media Research Center's annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2012 (December 2011 through November 2012).

To determine this year's winners, a panel of 46 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to seven quotes in each category [List of Judges]. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed alongside each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a "Quote of the Year" denoting the most outrageous quote of 2012.

The MRC's Michelle Humphrey distributed the ballots and tabulated the results. Senior news analyst Scott Whitlock helped produce the numerous audio and video clips included in the Web-posted version. Rich Noyes and Brent Baker assembled this issue and Brad Ash posted the entire package to the MRC's Web site.