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…
Gayle King!
The CBS Mornings co-host won with 54 percent of the vote! King won for her stunned reaction when told the lone Lindsay Clancy trial holdout juror was a black man. King responded: “A black man is the holdout juror?...Whoa! I have to sit with that, for just a second.” MS NOW’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough came in second place with 40 percent. MS NOW contributor Eddie Glaude finished in third place with 6 percent.
Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:
Watch the takes from Eddie Glaude, @ScarboroughNow, and @GayleKing below:
Video by @Schineman pic.twitter.com/efhoxKgXrb— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 17, 2026
WINNER (54 percent of the vote)
Gayle King When Told Lindsay Clancy Trial Holdout Juror is Black: “I Have to Sit With That, For a Second”
Co-host Gayle King: “One person of color [on the jury]? Was the person of color a woman or a man?”
Lindsay Clancy trial juror Paula Devlin: “A man.”
King: “A man? Is the holdout juror a person - a black man?”
Devlin: “Yes.”
King: “A black man is the holdout juror?”
Devlin: “Yes.”
King: “Whoa! I have to sit with that, for just a second.”
— CBS Mornings, September 11.
SECOND PLACE (40 percent of the vote)
Joe Scarborough: “Our Grandchildren” Will Look Back at ICE Agents the Same Way We Looked at “Internment Camps in WWII”
“They [ICE agents] will pay for the laws they’ve broken….I think historians will look back, and our grandchildren, children and grandchildren will read this the same way we read about the internment camps during World War II.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, September 15.
THIRD PLACE (6 percent of the vote)
Eddie Glaude: JD Vance Might Be Tired of Being Called a Racist, But He’s Not Tired of Being a Racist
Host Antonia Hylton, after playing a clip: “So that is the Vice President of the United States saying, ‘We were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.’”
Contributor Eddie Glaude: “He’s tired of being called a racist – he’s not necessarily tired of being racist.”
— MS NOW’s The Assignment, September 12.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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