Don't miss your chance to engage in our 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…
Sunny Hostin!
Hostin won with 47 percent of the vote for her bizarre claim on The View that the cancelation of Stephen Colbert's comedy show was somehow a dismantling of democracy and the Constitution. Scottish actor Alan Cumming finished in second place with 31 percent while he filled in for Jimmy Kimmel. CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane finished in third place with 22 percent.
Here again is our montage of the worst takes:
WINNER (47 percent of the vote)
Sunny Hostin: CBS’s Firing of Stephen Colbert Is the “Dismantling of Our Democracy”
“It’s very clear that if it [CBS canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert] is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution….If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 22.
SECOND PLACE (31 percent of the vote)
Alan Cumming: America Under Trump = Concentration Camps and “Crimes Against Humanity on a Daily Basis”
“America, how are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? I mean how, are you doing aside from being a country that has just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Aside from all that, are you okay?”
— Substitute host Alan Cumming on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, July 21.
THIRD PLACE (22 percent of the vote)
Scott MacFarlane: It Wasn’t the Shooting of Trump That Horrified Me, It Was His Supporters
“For those of us there [assasination attempt], it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was — I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could, you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.”
— CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane on The Chuck ToddCast podcast, July 16.
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