CNN founder Ted Turner won the MRC’s award for “Stupidest Analysis” for ludicrously declaring on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 1, 2008, that not fighting global warming “will be catastrophic....Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”
MRC Gala and DisHonors Awards
March 17, 2009 | 10:06 AM EDT
March 17, 2009 | 10:01 AM EDT
On CNN’s Larry King Live back on September 9, 2008, ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar attacked Palin as ‘very mean to animals....Why does she have it in for these poor polar bears and the caribou, and she aerial kills wolves? That’s a very mean thing to do.”
March 17, 2009 | 9:55 AM EDT
HBO’s Bill Maher won MRC’s “Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin” for pushing a crazy conspiracy on his Sept. 5, 2008 Real Time. “I’m not that convinced that’s her baby,” Maher declared of Palin’s son, Trig. “It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else.”
March 17, 2009 | 9:55 AM EDT
ABC’s Bill Weir won the MRC’s “Obamagasm Award” for his over-the-top fawning on World News on Inauguration Day. “Can national pride make a freezing day fell warmer?” Weir gushed. “From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.”
March 17, 2009 | 9:30 AM EDT
After Palin joined the Republican ticket, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman scoffed that she took the experience issue off the table for the GOP. “Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams. I mean, it’s just no contest,” he declared on MSNBC’s Countdown, August 29, 2008.
March 17, 2009 | 9:19 AM EDT
ABC’s David Wright rolled two Democratic mythologies into one story, declaring on the January 28, 2008 World News that the Kennedys’ endorsement of Obama means “today, the audacity of hope had its rendezvous with destiny....Obama is now an adopted son of Camelot.”
A nominee for the "Obamagasm Award" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
March 17, 2009 | 9:13 AM EDT
On the October 14, 2008 Hardball, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews derided the idea that Sarah Palin is a powerful female politician in the mode of Hillary Clinton: “The comparison between her and Hillary Clinton is the difference between an igloo and the Empire State Building.”
March 17, 2009 | 9:10 AM EDT
Barack Obama’s election on November 4, 2008, brought out this fawning from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann: “You’ve seen those videotapes of Walter Cronkite the night that man landed on the moon for the first time....Politically, that’s what this is. This is man on the moon.”
March 29, 2007 | 2:48 PM EDT
