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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.
Damn Those Conservatives Award
Winner
Carol Costello (65 points)
“Okay. I’m just going to come right out and say it: This is quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across — well, come across in a long time anyway. A massive brawl in Anchorage, Alaska, reportedly involving Sarah Palin’s kids and her husband. It was sparked after someone pushed one of her daughters at a party....And now police have released audio of that interview. It does include some rather colorful language from Bristol. Here now is Bristol’s recollection of how that night unfolded. So sit back and enjoy.”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Carol Costello on October 22, introducing audio of Bristol Palin describing how a man shoved her, dragged her on the ground and repeatedly cursed at her.
Runners-Up
Charles Pierce (47 points)
“[Senator John] McCain should pay a heavy price for unleashing this ignorant, two-wheeled bilewagon [Sarah Palin] on the country’s politics. If you think she’s a legitimate political leader, you’re an idiot and a sucker and I feel sorry for you....She is the living representation of the infantilization of American politics, a poisonous Grimm Sister telling toxic fairy tales to audiences drunk on fear, and hate and nonsense....It was the address of a malignant child delivered to an audience of malignant children. If you applauded, you’re an idiot and I feel sorry for you.”
— Esquire’s Charles Pierce in a March 8 blog post about Palin’s CPAC speech.
Ed Schultz (31 points)
“There’s nothing American about Ted Cruz.”
— Host Ed Schultz on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, June 2.
John Kelly (26 points)
“I still call Reagan National Airport ‘National Airport.’... It seemed odd to me to rename National after a man who, for the eight years he lived in Washington, didn’t even use the airport. (Air Force One lands at Andrews, remember?) Then there’s the irony of naming an airport after the guy who broke the air traffic controllers’ union. It’s like renaming Atlanta ‘Shermanville.’”
— Washington Post Metro columnist John Kelly in a May 21 column about proposals to rename Washington’s Union Station after former President Harry S. Truman.