Best of NQ 2014


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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:

Online:

Video:

  • Fox News Channel’s Hannity segment with MRC President Brent Bozell on December 18. Video.
  • Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends segment with Genevieve Wood on December 30. Video.
  • Newsmax TV’s America’s Forum segment with the MRC’s Tim Graham on December 30. Video, part 1; Video, part 2.
  • NewsmaxTV’s Steve Malzberg Show segment with the MRC’s Tim Graham on December 30. Video, part 1; Video, part 2.

Radio:

  • Partial list (not including discussions by hosts without a guest): Interviews with MRC staff include appearances on WIBA in Madison, Wisconsin; with Mark Larson on KCBQ in San Diego; KFMB in San Diego; David Webb’s show on SiriusXM; WHO in Des Moines and KBAR in Twin Falls, Idaho.


MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award

Winner

Chris Matthews (60 points)

“If only the people who voted in 2010 show up this November, you can kiss all this goodbye. You’ll see the beginning of the end to what could have been — what many of us believe should have been — an historic turn toward full democratic government in this country....It will be a double-downing of efforts to suppress the votes of those who voted for him in historic numbers, the return to something like Jim Crow days, redolent of all the old anti-black gimmickry of that time — literacy tests and poll taxes and all the rest. The goal will be to erase not just Obama from the history books, but any evidence that someone of his background should ever think of being President. It will mean victory for the haters.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews opening the January 7 Hardball.


Runners-Up

Chris Matthews (50 points)

“What’s worse, Thom Tillis or Ebola?”
— Matthews on Hardball, October 27.


Chris Matthews (34 points)

“Someone should ask Reince Priebus, him being the leader of the Republican Party in this country, why his party is so compelled to deny people the right to vote. Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln — who would run the risk of being called a Republican-In-Name-Only today — who won the Civil War so people, especially African Americans, could be regular voting citizens?...Doesn’t it [the Republican National Committee] have a responsibility, a moral responsibility, to tell the parties across the country that the party of Lincoln shouldn’t become the party of Jefferson Davis?”
— Matthews wrapping up Hardball, February 13.


Chris Matthews (28 points)

“A mean-spirited political trickster trying to run up the score in an easy reelection. Sound familiar? Well, this is not yet a Watergate, but the more we learn about Chris Christie, the more he does look like Richard Nixon.”
— Matthews on Hardball, January 15, teasing a nearly 12-minute segment comparing Christie to Nixon.