THE BEST NOTABLE QUOTABLES OF 1994
The Seventh Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting
Sore Losers Award (for Midterm Election Reporting)
“Some
thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and
they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the
rolling eyes, the screaming. It’s clear that the anger controls the
child and not the other way around. It’s the job of the parent to teach
the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine
a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a
temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don’t have to be
dirty words: the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old.”
– ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.
Runners-up:
“They are not voting
Republican tonight, Mary. They are voting against a lot of unhappiness
in their own lives....I think that it’s very easy for the Republicans to
make the same mistake that the Democrats made in thinking that somehow
we’ve been given this great mandate....They have got to be practical.
They have got to compromise. They have got to meet the real needs of
people. This is not an anti-government vote tonight.”
– U.S. News &
World Report Senior Writer Steven Roberts on CNBC’s Equal Time, election
night.
“What this Contract [with America] says is you can have
hot fudge sundae for every meal and still lose weight. It’s a fraud and
there’s a whole lot of Republicans who already are starting to forget
where they were September 27.”
– Wall Street Journal Executive
Washington Editor Al Hunt on CNN’s Capital Gang, Oct. 1
“This is a
rotten time to be black. Blacks are just going to take it in the
chops....Their programs are going to get eviscerated and affirmative
action is going to go right down the tubes...Politics have moved right
because a lot of middle-class people thought they were taking my money
and giving it to poor black people, and they didn’t like it and they
want their money back.”
– Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas
on Inside Washington, November 12.
“The Republicans have resorted
to demagoguery and transparent bribes (like lower taxes). The
legislature they promise seems a blustery, selfish, self-righteous
desert.”
– Newsweek Senior Editor Joe Klein, October 31 news story.
Honey, I Shrunk the Democratic Party Award (for Hillary Rodham Worshipping)
“Hillary
Clinton, like Eleanor Roosevelt, had already done a great service.
Unlike Barbara Bush, she got involved. She has taken stands. She has
been a leader. It’s too bad, of course, that there is not health care
legislation this year, but that is Congress’ failure, not Hillary
Clinton’s. Her role has been a success. She awakened the nation. She
educated the nation. She enlightened the nation....For when a nation
gets two leaders for the price of one – a Franklin and Eleanor, a Bill
and Hillary – it can tackle twice as many problems, find twice as many
solutions, make twice as much progress.”
– Former NBC News President
Michael Gartner in his USA Today column, September 27.
Runners-up:
“Bill
Clinton evoked sympathy and understanding by acknowledging marital
problems on the famous 60 Minutes interview. His wife is too dignified
for confessionals, but she could benefit from admitting that she, too,
has occasionally yielded to temptation and made the wrong choices. The
public might even be tickled to discover that the prim and preachy First
Lady has a gambler’s streak. Hillary’s brief fling in commodities was
possibly reckless, but it shows a glimmering of a more credible, if more
flawed, human being.”
– Eleanor Clift and Mark Miller, April 11
Newsweek story.
“There is a lot of gleeful sexist reaction to her
difficulties, a lot of piling on, a lot of men who never stood up for a
woman’s right to do anything who would be completely content to have
her whispering sweet nothings to him in bed and manipulating him that
way, and are simply terrorized by the thought that she may have real,
formal, out-front power.”
– NPR’s Nina Totenberg on Inside Washington,
March 12.
“As much as we try to think otherwise, when you’re
covering someone like yourself, and your position in life is insecure,
she’s your mascot. Something in you roots for her. You're rooting for
your team. I try to get that bias out, but for many of us it’s there.”
–
Time’s Margaret Carlson quoted in March 7 Washington Post.
Oliver Stone Award (for Liberal Conspiracy Mongering)
“The
American Spectator broke the story, as Gwen mentioned, because they’re a
very right-wing ideological publication....What really happened was
there was a conspiracy, in my opinion, by right-wingers, including some
right-wing journalists, to press this newspaper [the Los Angeles Times]
into running this story before it was ready to, trying to get it out,
and so they spread the rumor all around town that I had threatened to
resign if it did run...I know one of the guys who was spreading it: Brit
Hume of ABC, who covers the White House, who writes for The American
Spectator. I know there's another conservative journalist who covers the
White House, Fred Barnes, who’s on the editorial board of The American
Spectator...So they were all promoting this story.”
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson on PBS’ Washington Week in Review, December 24, 1993.
Runners-up:
“She [Hillary] is really
convinced that the right wing is incredibly well-organized, and there is
kind of a hate campaign going on in this country that is, is deeply and
well-organized, and it poses a real threat to government and the
Clintons personally. And I mean, she may be right.”
– Newsweek
Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas on Inside Washington, August 13.
“Some
of us were called in by Caspar Weinberger, when he was the Secretary of
Defense. This was after Grenada, after the Grenada invasion, which
again was not covered. We don’t know the full story today. No reporters
got in for three days. I don’t know whether we really found a warehouse
full of AK-47s there or not. Maybe we planted them there. I’m not saying
we did, but we had three days to do it if we wanted to because we had
no reporters get there at the beginning.”
– Walter Cronkite on CNBC’s
Dick Cavett, March 4.
“Questions abound about how and why
Republican Kenneth Starr suddenly came to be the new Independent Counsel
in the Whitewater case replacing Republican Robert Fiske. New
disclosures are fueling questions about whether or not Starr is an
ambitious Republican partisan backed by ideologically-motivated,
anti-Clinton activists and judges from the Reagan, Bush, and Nixon
years. Correspondent Eric Engberg has tonight’s CBS Evening News reality
check.”
– Dan Rather, August 12 CBS Evening News.
I Still Hate Ronald Reagan Award
“Then
one day in the summer of 1981 I found myself at the L.L. Bean store in
Freeport, Maine. I was a correspondent in the White House in those days,
and my work -- which consisted of reporting on President Reagan’s
success in making life harder for citizens who were not born rich,
white, and healthy – saddened me....My parents raised me to admire
generosity and to feel pity. I had arrived in our nation’s capital [in
1981] during a historic ascendancy of greed and
hard-heartedness....Reagan couldn’t tie his shoes if his life depended
on it.”
– New York Times editorial page editor (and former Washington Bureau Chief) Howell Raines in his book Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.
Runners-up:
“America is cheering [for Forrest Gump].
Much as it cheered Ronald Reagan, who more than Schweik or Candide, is
the real proto-Gump. Reagan too was relentlessly upbeat. Reagan too was
extraordinarily lucky. And his luck, like Gump’s, was often built on the
backs of people who suffered off-screen. Forrest had bankrupt
shrimpers, martyred Vietnam buddies, and his wife, whose death was
remarkably demure, considering her ailment. Reagan scored points off
America’s poor; somehow managed to cloak himself in heroism while
apologizing for a needless screw-up that killed 241 servicemen in
Beirut; and avoided tarnishing his reputation for optimism by spending
too much time on AIDS.”
– Essay by Time Associate Editor David Van
Biema, August 29 issue.
“Both Greedy and The Ref find comic pay
dirt in the spectacle of blood relations uncorking their revulsions and
resentments in open insult. You could read them as belated tantrums
against the patriarchal, money-obsessed Reagan ‘80s.”
– Newsweek movie
critic David Ansen, March 14 issue.
Nobody Here But Us Apolitical Observers Award
“A
liberal bias? I don’t know what a liberal bias is. Do you mean we care
about the poor, the sick, and the maimed? Do we care whether people are
being shot every day on the streets of America? If that’s liberal, so be
it. I think it’s everything that’s good in life – that we do care. And
also for the solutions — we seek solutions and we do think that we are
all responsible for what happens in this country.”
– UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas on C-SPAN’s Journalists Roundtable, December 31, 1993.
Runner-up:
“I won’t make any pretense that the
American Agenda is totally neutral. We do take a position. And I think
the public wants us now to take a position. If you give both sides and
`Well, on the one hand this and on the other that’ – I think people kind
of really want you to help direct their thinking on some issues.”
– ABC
News reporter Carole Simpson on CNBC’s Equal Time, August 9.
Media Hero Award
“It’s
a big loss for the President. It’s a big loss for the Congress, and I
think it’s a big loss for the country.”
– NBC reporter Lisa Myers on indictment of Dan Rostenkowski, May 25 Today.
Runners-up:
“To
his family, to his friends, he is not Rodney. They call him by his
middle name, Glenn. He hurts inside. He’s changed outside. Slimmed down,
his 210 pounds resembling those of a pro football wide receiver. He
leads his family with serious focus.”
– Bernard Shaw anchoring a CNN
special on Rodney King, Feb. 23.
“In an essay on turning 60,
Steinem writes: ‘I’m looking forward to trading moderation for excess’ –
which is good news. And there’s a precedent. In 1895 [Elizabeth Cady]
Stanton finally published a book she had been planning for many years: a
roaring attack on the Bible for its misogyny. The book was a best
seller, the horrified suffrage association voted to censure her and to
Stanton’s pleasure, ‘the clergy jumped around...like parched peas on a
hot shovel.’ She was 80. Now that’s a feminist.”
– Newsweek General
Editor Laura Shapiro reviewing Gloria Steinem’s Moving Beyond Words,
June 20.
Flatliner Award (for Brain-Dead Health Reporting)
“Everyone
is applauding, I think, in the health care community, the emphasis on
universal access, because they know that unless they’re going to let
some people just die in the streets, it makes sense to get medical care
early, when it’s going to be more effective and less costly....the
insurance companies are the focal point for the dynamics of denial that
are part of our present for-profit system.”
– ABC medical editor Dr. Tim Johnson, January 26 World News Tonight.
Runners-up:
“Bryant, a
Democrat can get insurance reform. It will take a Republican President
to get universal coverage to prove that it’s not a Neanderthal party ten
years from now.”
– NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert on
Today, September 7.
“The Clinton plan proposes totally free
coverage, no co-payment for preventive measures....The single-payer
plan, and the House Education and Labor Committee would add free
family-planning services and contraceptives for poor women.”
– ABC
reporter Ann Compton, May 26 Good Morning America.
“Most of the
riders saw themselves as missionaries spreading the word about how the
current health care system had failed them. Some were Republican, others
Democrat; some were against abortion, others supported abortion rights.
Most said they were not political. Their main focus was on assuring
that every American be covered by health insurance. In their view, the
Health Security Express was a nonpartisan effort to persuade Congress to
pass legislation that provides universal coverage.”
– Washington Post
Health section Editor Abigail Trafford on the Health Care Express,
August 9.
Reporter Tom Pettit: “Of all of the states, Hawaii has
the most coverage, the closest thing to universal coverage, which the
President has made the centerpiece of his health plan. Since 1974,
twenty years ago, Hawaii has required employers to insure their workers
and the state to cover the unemployed.”
Governor John Waihee III: “We cover actually about 97, 98 percent of our population.”
Pettit: “That is why Hawaii is a paradise, I guess.”
– NBC Nightly News story, January 29.
Rodney Dangerfield Award (for Demanding Bill Clinton Get Respect)
“Well,
it may seem the sheerest act of heresy to say so, but far from being
pathologically dishonest, Bill Clinton has been more faithful to his
word than any other chief executive in recent memory. He may have
skirted the truth about the draft, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and so
on. But Clinton has kept his contract with voters. On policy issues, he
has done almost exactly what he said he was going to do, despite
setbacks and enormous obstacles. And by so doing, he has made himself an
excellent President.”
– Former Newsweek reporter Jacob Weisberg in New York magazine, September 5 issue.
Runners-up:
“In less than
two years, Bill Clinton had already achieved more domestically than John
F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush combined.
Although Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan often had their way with
Congress, Congressional Quarterly says it’s Clinton who has had the most
legislative success of any President since Lyndon Johnson. Inhale that
one....The standard for measuring results domestically should not be the
coherence of the process but how actual lives are touched and changed.
By that standard, he’s doing well.”
– Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan
Alter, October 3 magazine story.
Host Tina Gulland: “Are we
agreed generally that it was a plus week for Clinton in the sense that
he was viewed as presidential and in charge of foreign policy?”
ABC
and National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg: “He was there in the
middle of the desert. I mean, it was biblical!”
– Exchange on Inside
Washington about Clinton’s Middle East trip, October 29.
“Around
the country, President Clinton is routinely trashed by conservative
talk-show hosts and Republican candidates for being the most liberal
President in modern times...But based on the measures that Mr. Clinton
succeeded in getting through Congress in his first two years, he looks
like Mainstream Bill....The Clinton record is surprisingly pro-business
and centrist.”
– Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Birnbaum, October 7.
Politics of Meaninglessness Award (for the Silliest Analysis)
“The
first time I shot somebody, it felt, God, it felt great. I mean, years
later, I read this like, magazine, and it likened the feeling to
ejaculation, or orgasm, and I thought about it, and it really
was....When John Wayne shoots somebody, he rides off into the sunset.
Why can’t I, you know? Young people don’t make the logical connections
that adults assume they make about those kinds of things. That’s why
you’ve got to get rid of the guns.”
–Criminal-turned- Washington Post reporter Nathan McCall in profile on ABC’s 20/20, February 18.
Runners-up:
“One
standard conservative argument against antipoverty policies is their
cost: taxes burden the affluent and thus, by lowering work incentive,
reduce economic output. But if one goal of the policy is to bolster
monogamy, then making the affluent less so would help. Monogamy is
threatened not just by poverty in an absolute sense but also by the
relative wealth of the rich. This is what lures a young woman to a
wealthy married or formerly married man. It is also what makes the man
who attracts her feel too good for just one wife. As for the economic
consequences, the costs of soaking the rich might well be outweighed by
the benefits, financial and otherwise, of more stable marriages, fewer
divorces, fewer abused children and less loneliness and depression.”
–
From August 15 Time cover story on infidelity, by New Republic Senior
Editor Robert Wright.
“Programs designed to aid inner city
youths...are not pork....’Pork!’ scream the demagogues. ‘Give us the
death penalty!’ The next time you or a loved one find yourself trapped
in the nightmare of a violent crime, ask yourself if it wouldn’t have
been better for the ‘perp’ to have been off playing basketball
somewhere. You may find yourself suddenly in favor of even an imperfect
attempt at prevention.”
– New York Times columnist and former NBC News
reporter Bob Herbert, August 17 column.
Clinton Enemies List Award (for Those Who Dare Stray from the Media Pack)
“To
his fans, David Brock, the writer who ruined the Clintons’ Christmas,
is a hard-hitting investigative reporter. To everyone else, he is a
smear artist with a right-wing agenda. But a reading of Mr. Brock’s
oeuvre in the conservative journal The American Spectator suggests that
his motives are at least as twisted as his facts. It’s women, not
liberals, who really get him going. The slightest sighting of female
sexuality whips him into a frenzy of misogynist zeal. All women are the
same to Mr. Brock: terrifying, gutter-tongued sexual omnivores.”
– New York Times columnist (and former theater critic) Frank Rich, January 6.
Runners-up:
“There
is very little in the press accounts to suggest that he is, above all, a
sophisticated propagandist, an avatar of the politics of meanness and
envy....Limbaugh is defending the successful against the impudent
demands of the poor; by making all that funny, he gives the comfortable a
way to think that greed and a cold-hearted wit comprise a cohesive
ideology.... his style is pure demagoguery. Just as Reagan talked of
welfare queens in Cadillacs, Limbaugh seizes on the absurd detail, gives
it an absurdist twist of his own, and sends it out into the world under
the guise of analysis and principle...."
“It is not enough for him to
oppose liberalism. He must, like all demagogues, scare his listeners,
get them to believe in conspiracy, rumor....Like Reagan, Limbaugh is
neither curious nor brave; he would rather tell his audiences fairy
tales than have them face the world; he would rather sneer at the weak
than trouble the strong.”
– Former Washington Post reporter David
Remnick in the Post’s Outlook section, February 20.
“Why does
anyone take Rush Limbaugh seriously?....He’s entertaining. But, come on,
he is to truthfulness as President Clinton is to faithfulness – he has
but a passing acquaintance with it. He’s toying with you, folks, getting
you all riled up with a stew of half-truths and non-truths. He’s making
fools of you, feeding you swill – and you’re taking it in....So keep
listening if you want. But just remember that he’s a charlatan.”
–
Former NBC News President Michael Gartner in a USA Today column, July
12.
“One of my losers of the year is David Brock, who wrote that
slimy magazine article that revived all those charges about Bill
Clinton’s personal behavior, and I regarded that as journalism which is
truly out of bounds.”
– PBS Washington Week in Review moderator Paul
Duke, December 31, 1993.
You’re No Anita Hill Award (for Hypocrisy in Sexual Harassment Reporting)
“Yes,
the case is being fomented by right-wing nuts, and yes, she is not a
very credible witness, and it’s really not a law case at all...some
sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks...I think
she’s a dubious witness, I really do.”
– Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Evan Thomas, May 7 Inside Washington.
Runners-up:
“We’ve
got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual
harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it’s a
little tough to figure out who’s really being harassed.”
– Today co-host
Bryant Gumbel, May 10.
“But [attorney Bob] Bennett says he has
‘people coming out of the woodwork’ to discredit Jones and her story. He
need look no further than Jones’ brother-in-law, Mark Brown...’She went
with one man and when she got there, she spotted another one. She goes
right up to him, puts her leg between the legs of the other man and rubs
herself up and down on him...Promiscuity? Good gosh. Her mother is
fixing to get the shock of her life when Paula’s life comes out...She
went out and had herself a good time. I’ve seen her at the Red Lobster
pinch men on the ass.’”
– Newsweek Washington reporter Mark Hosenball,
May 16 story.
No Money Down Award (for Excusing the Clintons’ Financial Scandals)
“What
happened was a riveting hour and 12 minutes in which the First Lady
appeared to be open, candid, but above all unflappable. While she
provided little new information on the tangled Arkansas land deal or her
controversial commodity trades, the real message was her attitude and
her poise.”
– Time reporter Michael Duffy, May 2 news story on Hillary Clinton’s press conference on her commodities dealings.
Runners-up:
“She’s
been re-zoned back into the stratosphere. And when you watch that
[commodities press conference], you just wonder why they waited so long.
She’s at least as good a communicator as her husband, and people have
said about Clinton, ‘If you’ve got Elvis let him sing.’ Well, I don’t
know what the analogy is, this was Streisand...For anybody except the
Whitewater fanatics, this was an A-double-plus in both categories [style
and substance].”
– Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group,
April 23.
“But Whitewater so far is a parody of a political
scandal, full of sound and fury, signifying next to nothing. If it walks
like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a...turkey.”
– Newsweek
Senior Editor Jonathan Alter, August 8 issue.
“The beauty of the
special counsel is that he or she has to prove criminal wrongdoing, and
not only criminal wrongdoing, but criminal intent, and I think, you
know, everyone is certain that doesn’t exist with the Clintons.”
–
Newsweek reporter Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, January 15.
Good Morning Morons Award
“You’re
aligned to a party which owes many of its victories to the so-called
religious right and other conservative extremists who are historically
insensitive to minority concerns. That doesn’t bother you?”
– Today co-host Bryant Gumbel to black Republican U. S. Rep.-elect J.C. Watts, November 9.
Runners-up:
“In the wake of the somewhat new
hostilities bred in the Reagan ‘80s, how do you assess the state of race
relations in this country today?”
– Gumbel to National Urban League
President Hugh Price, July 28.
“Let’s not debate his presidency,
but his passing. As opposed to a man like Reagan, Nixon is, was highly
regarded as a genuine statesman with a first-class mind.”
– Today
co-host Bryant Gumbel, April 26.
“What is it, do you think,
government can do about this? If we declare that obesity is a disease,
would that make any difference at all?”
– CBS This Morning co-host Paula
Zahn on a study marking one-third of Americans as obese, July 18.
Damn Those Conservatives Award
“I
hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like
many black men do, of heart disease....He is an absolutely reprehensible
person.”
– USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4 PBS To the Contrary.
Runners-up:
“I think there’s a big difference when
people told Father Aristide to sort of moderate his views, they were
concerned about people being dragged through the streets, killed and
necklaced. I don’t think that is what Newt Gingrich has in mind. I think
he’s looking at a more scientific, a more civil way of lynching
people.”
– National Public Radio reporter Sunni Khalid on C-SPAN’s
Journalists Roundtable, October 14.
“Gays and lesbians are beaten
to death in the streets with increasing frequency – in part due to
irrational fear of AIDS but also because hatemongers, from comedians to
the worst of the Christian right, send the message that homosexuals have
no value in our society. Sometimes that message has a major-party
affiliation and a request for a campaign contribution. In the post-cold
war era, gays have been drafted to replace communists as the new menace
to the American Way: We’re told gays corrupt youth and commandeer art
and entertainment to win converts.”
– Dan Rather in The Nation, April 11
edition.
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
“Back then
[when it received Soviet subsidies], the island may have been a thorn
in Washington’s side but it was a beacon of success for much of Latin
America and the Third World. For decades, Cuba’s health care and
education systems were touted as great achievements of the
revolution....Some say the trade ban has never given Cuba a chance to
see whether or not Castro’s socialism might work.”
– CBS reporter Giselle Fernandez, September 4 Evening News.
Runners-up:
“Life
has become so much worse for so many Russians under democratic pseudo
capitalism... the first market reforms and the erosion of state
authority have fostered a brutal cowboy capitalism. It is manifest in
the emergence of a lavish lifestyle among a flamboyant and vulgar new
class of businessmen, made up mostly of speculators, traders and
outright criminals, all of whom are stealing the country blind...No
freedom from fear and no freedom from want: Small wonder many Russians
feel nostalgic for the days when there was bread and law and order.”
–
U.S. News Editor-in-Chief Mortimer Zuckerman, March 7.
“For more
than 70 years, Russia dreamed the Soviet dream: the dream of a classless
society, the dream of a workers’ paradise. The classless state is now a
state with a growing population of haves and an exploding population of
have-nots. For many, the workers’ paradise has become a homeless hell.”
– ABC’s Morton Dean, January 14 Good Morning America.
Which Way Is It?
Iran-Contra Report Castigates Reagan
Impeachment ‘Should Have Been Condiered,’ Prosecutor Says
– Washington Post, January 19
Iran-Contra inquiry clears Reagan, Bush
Walsh alleges cover-up by top aides
– Boston Globe, same day
Runner-up:
“Stocks
had their best performance in months this week, on news of sustained
growth with negligible inflation, and the job picture is good as well.
But does the President get credit? No.”
– ABC reporter Jack Smith, August 28 This Week with David Brinkley.
vs.
“The recovery of the 1990s does not seem to be translating into better living standards. Wages are generally flat, job creation last month slowed, and the new jobs are often low-pay, dead-end service jobs, roughly one-fifth of them with temporary agencies.”
– Jack Smith, same show, one week later.
Dumbest Quote of the Year
“Around
the global village, women cheered and grown men wept. At his press
conference, [Gold medal-winning speed skater Dan] Jansen paused to take a
call from the President, the man who’s made America safe again for
tears.”
– Newsweek Senior Writer David A. Kaplan, February 28 news story.
Runners-up:
“To watch this President connect with
people emotionally is an awesome thing. It’s a raw, needy, palpable,
electrifying thing that happens. There was no smile. It’s as if he’s
soaking up the people like he’s soaking up the sun, with the warmth
pouring deep and direct into his political soul and recharging him,
refilling him somehow once again with his own humanity and some sense of
his role in the destiny of his country. Then, the hunger slaked, the
great beast of Need fed once again, it seemed you could almost see the
gratitude pouring off his brow like sweat as he made his way.”
–
Washington Post reporter Phil McCombs, March 30 Style section story on
Clinton vacationing in California.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton is as
pious as she is political. Methodism, for her, is not just a church but
an extended family of faith that defines her horizons....If the Kennedy
era was Camelot and the Reagan White House a ranchero on the Potomac,
the Clinton presidency – in the figure of its formidable First Lady – is
Washington’s Methodist Moment.”
– Newsweek reporter Kenneth L.
Woodward, October 31 story.
“I think liberalism lives – the
notion that we don’t have to stay where we are as a society, we have
promises to keep, and it is liberalism, whether people like it or not,
which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did
conservatism ever accomplish for our country? It was people who wanted
to change things for the better.”
– Charles Kuralt talking with Morley
Safer on the CBS special, One for the Road with Charles Kuralt, May 4.
“I
suspect that as long as the peccadilloes remain within reason, the
American people will have great tolerance for a President who has not
only seen the sunshine of Oxford, but also the dusky Dunkin’ Donuts of
the soul.”
– Newsweek Senior Writer Joe Klein, January 3 issue.
– Andrew Gabron, Mark Honig, Steve Kaminski, Gesele Rey, Clay Waters; Media Analysts
1994 Award Judges
Ray Archer, Arizona Republic editorial writer
Brent Baker, Editor of MediaWatch & Notable Quotables
Mark Belling, talk show host, WISN, Milwaukee
Neal Boortz, talk show host, WSB in Atlanta
L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman, the Media Research Center
David Brudnoy, WBZ Radio and TV commentator, Boston
Priscilla Buckley, Senior Editor of National Review
Don Cook, Program Director, WCHS in Charleston, West Virginia
John Corry, American Spectator "Presswatch" columnist
Sandy Crawford, Editor of TV, etc.
Mark Davis, talk show host, WBAP, Dallas/Ft. Worth
Midge Decter, author
Jim Eason, talk show host, KGO in San Francisco
Mark Gilman, talk show host, WAVA, Washington, D.C.
Tim Graham, Co-Editor of Notable Quotables
Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator of B.C. and The Wizard of Id
Kirk Healy, talk show host, WDBO in Orlando
Pat Hurley, anchor, WYHS-TV, Miami; talk show host, WFTL
Les Jameson, talk show host, WLAC in Nashville
Marie Kaigler, radio talk show host, Detroit
Cliff Kincaid, writer and broadcaster
Paul Koloski, Editorial Editor, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
John Leonard, talk show host, N. Ft. Myers
Jason Lewis, talk show host, KSTP, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Tony Macrini, talk show host, WNIS in Norfolk
Patrick McGuigan, Chief editorial writer, Daily Oklahoman
Jan Mickelson, talk show host, WHO in Des Moines
Wes Minter, talk show host, WCCO in Minneapolis
Robert Novak, syndicated columnist; television commentator
Kate O'Beirne, Vice President of the Heritage Foundation; panelist, PBS To the Contrary
Dr. Marvin Olasky, Professor of Journalism, U. of Texas at Austin
Star Parker, President of Coalition on Urban Affairs; talk show
host, KGER in Los Angeles
Mike Pintek, talk show host, KDKA in Pittsburgh
Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, Managing Editor, American Spectator
Michael Reagan, syndicated radio talk show host
Mike Rosen, talk show host, KOA; columnist, Denver Post
William Rusher, Distinguished Fellow, Claremont Institute
Marc Ryan, editorial writer, Waterbury Republican-American
Melanie Scarborough, ed. writer, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Ted J. Smith III, journalism professor, Virginia Commonwealth U.
Philip Terzian, syndicated and Providence Journal columnist
Peter Wilkinson Thiele, talk show host, KSTP, Minneapolis/St.Paul
Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist; TV and radio talk show host
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator
Carl Wiglesworth, talk show host, WOAI, San Antonio
Armstrong Williams, syndicated radio talk show host
Dick Williams, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist
Walter Williams, economics professor, George Mason U. and syndicated columnist
Thomas Winter, Editor of Human Events
Barry Young, talk show host, KFYI in Phoenix