The Twenty-Sixth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting
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- Best of NQ 2013 Home
- The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges
- Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews
- The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award for Denying Obama’s Scandals
- MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award
- The Gunning for the Second Amendment Award
- The Obamagasm Award
- Damn Those Conservatives Award
- The Tea Party Terrorists Award
- The Pantsuit Patrol Award for Boosting Hillary Clinton
- The Kamikaze Award for Disparaging Conservatives During the Shutdown
- Let Them Eat Dog Food Award for Freaking Out Over the Sequester’s Puny Cuts
- The Obama’s Orderlies Award for Championing ObamaCare
- The Twisted Tweets Award
- 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
- 2013 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, by Mike Rosen on December 19: “Liberal media lowlights of the year.”
- Washington Times’ “Inside the Beltway” column by Jennifer Harper on December 19: “The Year’s Most Questionable Quotes.”
- World magazine, by Marvin Olasky, online December 20 and in January 11 magazine: “The year in propaganda”
- Oklahoma City’s The City Sentinel, by Patrick McGuigan on December 20: “Notable Quotables -- The Best of the Worst in 2013”
Video:
- NewsmaxTV, December 18 Steve Malzberg Show interview with the MRC’s Rich Noyes.
- FoxNews.com, December 23 Bias Bash by Cal Thomas: “2013’s most outrageous media reports”
- FNC’s Hannity, January 2, 2014: “Media Mash” segment with MRC President Brent Bozell on top runner-up and winning “Quote of the Year” quotes.
Online:
- Center for Individual Freedom’s “Freedom Line Blog,” by Quin Hillyer on December 9: “What’s Left in the Media? (Almost Everything)”
- Creators syndicate column by MRC President Brent Bozell on December 17: “Safeguarding Obama Throughout 2013.”
- WashingtonExaminer.com, by Paul Bedard on December 18: “Media hate quote of the year: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir slam on Sarah Palin”
- Watchdog.org, by Patrick McGuigan on December 18: “Notable quotables: The best of the worst in 2013"
- Newsmax.com on December 18: “MSNBC's Bashir Wins ‘Worst Reporting’ Award for Palin Rant”
- WashingtonTimes.com’s “Water Cooler” blog by Jennifer Harper on December 18: “The most questionable quotes of the year: Yes, MSNBC wins.”
Radio
- (Interviews as of 12/29) Portland, Oregon-based Lars Larson on his national show, Jan Mickelson on WHO in Des Moines, Bob Dutko on WMUZ in Detroit, Mark Larson on KCBQ in San Diego and Tron Simpson on KCMN in Colorado Springs, Mike Rosen on KOA in Denver and Greg Garrison on WIBC in Indianapolis.
Let Them Eat Dog Food Award
for Freaking Out Over the Sequester’s Puny Cuts
Winner
Ed Schultz (64 points)
“Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s damn near a third....You can’t take 30, you can’t take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can’t do it! It’s impossible!”
— Radio host and MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz on his February 25 radio show. In fact, $85 billion is a puny 2 percent of the $3.5 trillion annual federal budget, not 30 percent. [MP3 Audio]
Runners-Up
Josh Elliott (59 points)
“Deadline day. Hours, now, until massive government cuts go into effect that could impact every American: jobs vaporizing, flights delayed, even criminals walking free.”
— Fill-in co-host Josh Elliott at the top of ABC’s Good Morning America, March 1. [MP3 Audio]
David Kerley (37 points)
“It sounds like a disaster movie: Childcare canceled for tens of thousands of kids, long airport security lines, flight delays with a shortage of controllers, and military cuts that will leave us ‘second rate,’ according to the Defense Secretary.”
— ABC’s David Kerley on World News, February 24. [MP3 Audio]
Rachel Maddow / Savannah Guthrie (34 points)
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: “In Prohibition, the government came up with the brilliant idea that to stop people from drinking, they would put poison in industrial alcohol. They didn’t do anything to stop the underlying problem of people wanting to drink, and so what they did was poison a lot of people. This [the sequester] is the same kind of thing. It’s supposed to be aversion therapy. It’s supposed to be so awful we won’t do it. But we’ve gone and done it anyway. It’s self-imposed crisis.”
Co-host Savannah Guthrie: “And part of the effect though is this poison, to borrow your metaphor, it’s not a poison that kills you overnight. Apparently it’s a slow, rolling poison.”
Co-host Savannah Guthrie: “And part of the effect though is this poison, to borrow your metaphor, it’s not a poison that kills you overnight. Apparently it’s a slow, rolling poison.”
— Exchange on NBC’s Today, March 5. [MP3 Audio]