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.
MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award
Winner
Chris Matthews (89 points)
“They are political terrorists, and like all terrorists, including those who use bombs, their number one goal — their only goal — is to blow things up. [Senators Ted] Cruz, [Rand] Paul and Mike Lee are on a mission to destroy, shut down the American government, destroy ObamaCare, drive the country into default, destroy the U.S. credit rating. Terrorists with one purpose: To bring down, not just this administration but, let’s face it, the American government.”
— Host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, July 31. [MP3 Audio]
Runners-Up
Chris Matthews (33 points)
“I want to say a word about this Ted Cruz guy. Not since Joe McCarthy have we seen a senator with such sinister self-assuredness. The Senator from Texas knows who and what he hates. He hates everything about President Obama. His goal is to exterminate the entire Obama record, reject everyone Obama nominates for office....Cruz wants to kill the Affordable Care Act, which was legitimately enacted into law. He wants to bring the American government to a halt, renege on the national debt in order to get it removed. This is how he wants to be known. This is a brand he wants to establish for himself, even if it tears the government apart.”
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, September 23. [MP3 Audio]
Chris Matthews (32 points)
“Why do we have so many know-nothings in the Congress who deny not just mankind’s history, or the obvious evidence of climate change, but the fiscal arithmetic that stares us in the face? What makes them characters in some ghastly, real-life remake of the Planet of the Apes, where the bad guys fear nothing more than science and other evidence of human progress?...What do you call this, this dangerous zig-zagging toward the abyss, with a nervous John Boehner being driven first to the cliff, while the zealots of the right wing scream louder and louder that victory lies in catastrophe — Kool-Aid for everyone, and defeatists will be shot!”
— Chris Matthews opening MSNBC’s Hardball, October 7. [MP3 Audio]
Chris Matthews (28 points)
“Is Ted Cruz the Republican Freddy Krueger?...’Let Me Start’ tonight with this grotesquerie that now presents itself as the righteous right arm of the Republican Party, this frightening Freddy Krueger that threatens this country with relentless shutdowns and credit defaults....”
— Host Chris Matthews opening Hardball, October 29. [MP3 Audio]