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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 Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award
for Celebrity Vapidity
Winner
Gwyneth Paltrow (83 points)
“I am one of your biggest fans, if not the biggest, and have been since the inception of your campaign....It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass...You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly.”
— Actress Gwyneth Paltrow introducing President Obama at an October 9 DNC fundraiser held at her Los Angeles home.
Runners-Up
Harvey Weinstein (44 points)
“This is the only country in the world where we don’t have health care. Countries embarrass us around the world. And this is the only country in the world where we don’t have a gun law. I watched you, you know, talk about that. You know, quite frankly, it’s embarrassing. Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.”
— Movie producer Harvey Weinstein on CNN’s Piers Morgan Live, November 15, 2013.
Max Brooks (36 points)
“This [the rise of the Tea Party] has happened before in history. In Germany in the ’20s and ’30s, there was this right-wing reactionary element that was so terrified of anarchy and communism, that they said, ‘You know what? There’s a group of street thugs that are real ideologues, and they’re willing to take it and they’re willing to bloody themselves. And you know, once they get into power we can control them.’ And that was why they backed them. ‘We can control this.’ And what they didn’t realize...What is true is that ideologues are only loyal to ideology.”
— Graphic novelist, cartoonist and former Saturday Night Live writer Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks, on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, June 27.
Emmy Rossum (21 points)
“Then I got food poisoning the next day....The hospitals are amazing there. I went to the hospital: Free health care! Incredible....They don’t even ask you for your I.D. You give your name, you give your symptoms, they hook you up to a bunch of fluids. They say, ‘Just leave when you feel like it.’ You pay nothing! I paid nothing. They treated me for hours, I paid nothing. Amazing...It was amazing.”
— Emmy Rossum, star of Showtime’s Shameless, on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, January 8, recounting what happened when she became ill during a visit to Britain.