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Year-End Awards: The Most Outrageous Media Quote of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 31, 2015, 9:05 AM EST

Wrapping up the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” it’s time to present the “ Quote of the Year ” for 2015, and the top runner-up, as selected by our panel of 39 expert judges, who were extremely generous with their time as they re ...

Year-End Awards: The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:45 PM EST

Today’s installment of the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” as selected by our 39 expert judges, the “ The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.” Winning this award, former Star Trek actor George Takei, who ...

Year-End Awards: The Ku Klux Con Job Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:31 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ku Klux Con Job Award,” for smearing conser ...

Year-End Awards: The Dopiest News Media Quotes of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 11:22 PM EST

Starting last week, NewsBusters has been revealing the winners and top runners-up for each category in the MRC’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Audacity of Dopes ” award, for the wackiest ...

MRC’s Year-End Awards: The Hopeless Haters Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 12:57 AM EST

Since last week, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Hopeless Haters Award,” for the worst quotes denigrating the ...

Year End Awards: The Ruining the Revolution Award

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 9:34 AM EST

Since Monday, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Ruining the Revolution Award,” for journalists wailing about ho ...

Year-End Awards: The ‘Harsh to the Huddled Masses’ Award

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:47 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “Harsh to the Huddled Masses” award, for attacks on the GOP candidates for their supposed hos ...

Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary’s Scandals

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:34 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ What Difference Does It Make? ” Award for denying Hillary’s scandals. (Thanks to our 39 jud ...

Year-End Awards: The Pantsuit Patrol Award for Boosting Hillary Clinton

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:29 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Pantsuit Patrol Award,” for boosting Hillary Clinton. (As always, thanks to our 39 judges w ...

Year-End Awards: The Damn Those Conservatives Award

By Rich Noyes | December 28, 2015, 12:57 AM EST

We began detailing the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015 ” yesterday with the awards for the gooiest Obamagasms of the year. Today, we have the perennial “ Damn Those Conservatives Award,” our annual look at the nasty rhetoric that ...

Year-End Awards: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 28, 2015, 1:11 AM EST

Last week, the Media Research Center announced our “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” with MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry “winning” Quote of the Year for objecting to the phrase “hard worker,” as somehow a violation of the rules of political corr ...

Study: Late Night TV Targets Trump and GOP Twice as Much as Hillary and the Democrats

By Rich Noyes | December 21, 2015, 3:25 AM EST

A new report from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University finds that it’s not just the news media that’s obsessed with Donald Trump. A study of jokes told by late night comedians finds that GOP frontrunner was the target of more ...

Crunching the Numbers: What to Watch For at the Next GOP Debate

By Rich Noyes | December 14, 2015, 8:15 AM EST

After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers should expect: 1) the questio ...

Notable Quotables: Prayer = 'Meaningless Platitudes' from 'Cowards'

By Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock | December 7, 2015, 9:05 AM EST

Now online: the December 7 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, the media double down on Obama's anti-gun agenda and mock those who offer prayers as "cowards&q ...

Notable Quotables: Blasting 'Ugly' 'Fear Talk' on Syria

By Scott Whitlock and Rich Noyes | November 23, 2015, 9:00 AM EST

Now online: the November 23 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, journalists echo the Obama line on Syrian refugees, blasting Republicans for their "ugly" &quo ...