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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 Ku Klux Con Job Award
for Smearing Conservatives
with Phony Racism Charges
Winner
Chris Matthews (65 points)
“Killing the black vote. This is Hardball....Good evening, I’m Chris Matthews in Washington. This is rotten stuff, isn’t it? The Republican effort to kill the black vote in state after state: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, Texas. We can all see what they’re doing. Believing they can’t convert the African American vote, they’ve decided to slaughter it....This is murder in broad daylight.”
— Chris Matthews opening MSNBC’s Hardball, October 21.
Runners-Up
Melissa Harris-Perry (48 points)
“I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years and, like it or not, it’s indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man, to render him inferior and unequal and to diminish his accomplishments.... Y’all know the word that I’m talking about: ObamaCare.”
— Host Melissa Harris-Perry on her eponymous MSNBC show, December 8, 2013.
Bill Press (43 points)
“The essence of this Tea Party is a racist institution. It is born of the fact that they cannot stand the fact that a black man is President of the United States. But it also shows me that despite what happened in Virginia — right? — this Republican Party hasn’t learned one lesson. They still will go as far right as they can, as extreme on the extreme fringe of the Republican Party. That’s who’s leading the party today.”
— Left-wing radio host Bill Press on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, December 16, 2013.
Ed Schultz (24 points)
“I think not raising the minimum wage is a racist policy....Not raising the wage, the minimum wage, is every bit as racist as comments made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling. It’s just displayed in a different way.”
— Host Ed Schultz on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, April 30.