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The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award
for Denying Obama’s Scandals - The Obamagasm Award
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The Blue State Brigade Award
for Biased Campaign Coverage - The Media Hero Award
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The Planet in Peril Award
for Climate Hysteria -
The Obama’s Orderlies Award
for Championing ObamaCare -
The Ku Klux Con Job Award
for Smearing Conservatives
with Phony Racism Charges - Damn Those Conservatives Award
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The Pantsuit Patrol Award
for Boosting Hillary Clinton - America’s Royal Baby Award
- MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award
- The Twisted Tweets 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
- 2014 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 21: “Liberal media ravings of 2014”
- Waterbury [CT] Republican-American editorial on January 1: “Chronicles of Bias XXVII”
- World magazine, by Marvin Olasky, posted on December 19 (Jan. 10, 2015 printed publication): “Lap dogs and attack hounds; My votes for the worst reporting of 2014.” Also posted January 9 on TownHall.com: “Lap Dogs and Attack Hounds”
Online:
- National Review Online, by Quin Hillyer on December 1: “H8ers Gotta H8: In 2014, the media delivered a torrent of anti-conservative bile”
- FoxNation on December 21: “MRC’s Year-End Awards: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2014"
- NewsBusters on December 23: “The Worst of 2014: ‘Victory for the Haters,’” a syndicated column Brent Bozell and Tim Graham.
- The Daily Signal, by Genevieve Wood on December 26: “Here Are the Most Biased Media Quotes of 2014”
- Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard on December 29: “Worst liberal media quote of 2014: CNN’s Carol Costello’s slap at Bristol Palin”
- TownHall.com on December 31: “Year-End Awards: The Most Outrageous Media Quote of 2014”
- CapitolBeatOK.com, by Patrick B. McGuigan on January 6: “The best of the worst: The Media Research Center’s ‘Notable Quotables’ for 2014”
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.
The Audacity of Dopes Award
for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year
Winner
Eleanor Clift (85 points)
“Every media organization has investigated this [Benghazi] to death. This animates the right wing of the Republican Party. And I would like to point out that Ambassador [Chris] Stevens was not murdered. He died of smoke inhalation in the safe room in that CIA installation.”
— The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, May 11.
Runners-Up
Zachary Goldfarb (40 points)
“With the 2015 budget request, [President] Obama will call for an end to the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency and to his efforts to find common ground with Republicans.”
— Washington Post business reporter Zachary Goldfarb in a February 21 front-page article, “Obama budget to rebuff austerity.” The federal government’s total public debt rose from $10.63 trillion when Obama took office to $17.42 trillion at the time Goldfarb’s article appeared.
Peter Dinklage (34 points)
“Russia overwhelms. Russia mystifies. Russia transcends....The empire that ascended to affirm a colossal footprint; [over footage of communist symbols] the revolution that birthed one of modern history’s pivotal experiments. But if politics has long shaped our sense of who they are, it’s passion that endures as a more reliable route to their collective heart.”
— Actor Peter Dinklage narrating a piece on Russia which introduced NBC’s coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, February 7. During the Soviet era, estimates are that between 8.5 million and 50 million people died of starvation, politically-motivated murder and in forced labor camps.
Brian Williams (27 points)
Anchor Brian Williams: “Whatever else is remembered from Hillary Clinton’s trip to Iowa this past weekend to attend a big political steak fry, along with her husband, it’s this soundbite from her speech that may survive for all time.”
Hillary Clinton: “I’m back!”
Hillary Clinton: “I’m back!”
— NBC Nightly News, September 15.