It’s time to find out who had the Worst Media Quote of the Week. This interactive series is where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media quote of the week.
Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, X, and Truth Social).
The results of the Worst Media Quote of the Week are in, and the winner is…
Sunny Hostin!
The ABC’s The View co-host won with an overwhelming 84 percent of the vote! Hostin won for bragging about how she was a holdout juror who kept a killer out of prison. MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell came in a distant second place with 13 percent. MS NOW correspondent Laura Barron Lopez finished in third place with 3 percent.
Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:
Watch the quotes from @lbarronlopez, @Lawrence, and Sunny Hostin below.
Video by @Schineman pic.twitter.com/bLLBaA9nJh— MRC Video (@mrcvideo) September 24, 2026
WINNER (84 percent of the vote)
Sunny Hostin Brags She Was Holdout Juror Who Kept Killer Out of Prison
Co-host Sunny Hostin: “The insanity defense has been around in Massachusetts for 182 years, so I think it’s well established. And I thought absolutely that she [Lindsay Clancy] was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. And the reason I felt that – I feel so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in a case, in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don’t know if people remember it, The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park. It was in 199-”
Co-host Joy Behar: “The guy who ate the victims?”
Hostin: “Yes!..He did not mean to kill her, and once he killed her, he panicked. He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts, tried to commit the perfect crime, and then fed – ”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin: “And you got this guy off?!”...
Hostin: “That’s how much I believe in the insanity defense. And he fed her body parts to the unhoused.”
— ABC’s The View, September 22.
SECOND PLACE (13 percent of the vote)
Lawrence O’Donnell: “Deranged” and Depraved Donald Trump Is the “Champion of American Degradation”
“Well, the deranged depravity of Donald Trump has delivered more degradation to this country than any other person in our history has come close to delivering. Donald Trump is the champion of American degradation, and there is no other single individual in our history who we can point to who has visited such overwhelming degradation on this country. Not even close! There isn’t a close second.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, September 16.
THIRD PLACE (3 percent of the vote)
Laura Barron Lopez’s Loaded Questions On Trump’s “Authoritarianism”
“Mayor, to you first, what’s your response to President Trump banning outlets from the White House grounds? Did you challenge him at all about this in your meeting with him? Historians and legal scholars have called it textbook authoritarianism. And Mr. President, are you banning outlets like MS NOW, CNN and Politico in order to distract from the Iran war and high gas prices?”
— MS NOW correspondent Laura Barron Lopez’s questions to President Donald Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani at joint press conference, September 21.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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