We’ve got a new, fun interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.
Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).
The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is…
Keith Olbermann!
The former MSNBC’s Countdown host won with 56 percent of the vote! Olbermann took first place for blaming the terrorist attack in Colorado on the President: “The blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.”
PBS host Christiane Amanpour finished in second place with 35 percent of the vote. Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart third with 9 percent.
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (56 percent of the vote)
Keith Olbermann: “The Blood” of Terror Attack Is “On the Hands of Donald Trump”
“You just round up all the people who you think look like threats. That is remigration. That is ethnic cleansing. That is Donald Trump’s presidency. And that, because you no longer bother to look for people who are guilty or who might be planning heinous acts, you just look for their skin tone and their names, that is why the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.”
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, June 3.
SECOND PLACE (35 percent of the vote)
Christiane Amanpour: “I Literally Prepared to Go to America” As If It Was “North Korea”
“When I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago, last week. I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea.”
— PBS host Christiane Amanpour on her podcast Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin, June 3.
THIRD PLACE (9 percent of the vote)
Jonathan Capehart: Shouldn’t We Be Worried About Trump’s “Mental Acuity?”
“If President Trump is mentally anguished over the editing of a television [60 Minutes with Kamala Harris] interview, why shouldn’t I be concerned about his mental acuity in the office right now and all the crazy stuff he’s doing?”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s The Weekend, June 1.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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