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The Twenty-Third Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting



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  • Best of NQ 2010 Home
  • The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble
  • Rodney Dangerfield Award for Demanding Respect for Obama's "Achievements"
  • Damn Those Conservatives Award
  • The Shovel Ready Media Award for Claiming Success for Obama's "Stimulus"
  • They Don't Miss Him Yet Award for Still Bashing Bush
  • No Wonder It Sold For $1 Award for Newsweek's Priceless Bias
  • Media Hero Award
  • Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery
  • Dumb and Dumber Award for Matthews and Olbermann's Leftist Blatherings
  • The Ground Zeroes Award for Impugning Americans as Islamophobic
  • Hazing Arizona Award for Denigrating Immigration Enforcement
  • The Supremely Slanted Award for Elevating Elena Kagan
  • The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
  • Obama's Orderlies Award for Prepping America for ObamaCare
  • The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh
  • The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year
  • The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
  • Quote of the Year
  • 2010 NQ Judges


Media Coverage

In addition to discussions on numerous talk radio shows where hosts cited quotes or interviewed MRC representatives, the Best of NQ Awards issue has been highlighted by these outlets:

Television:

  • FNC's Fox & Friends, December 20: MRC President Brent Bozell unveiled the worst media quotes of 2010. Watch video on our NewsBusters blog.

Print/Online:

  • Washington Times, “Inside the Beltway” by Jennifer Harper, December 21: “Tingle Bells.”
  • Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen, December 23: “Liberal media wisdom, 2010.”
  • Investor’s Business Daily, Creators syndicate column by Brent Bozell, December 23: “2010: The Year for Terrorists on the Right?”
  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 26: “Year of right-wing terrorists.”
  • American Thinker, blog post by Rick Moran, December 27: “MRC's Best Notable Quotables for 2010.”
  • Waterbury [CT] Republican-American, January 1, 2011: “Chronicles of Bias XXIII.”
  • World magazine, by Marvin Olasky, January 15, 2011 edition: “How low can they go? Call the chiropractors: It's journalistic limbo time again.”

Quote of the Year

Chris Matthews

Clip of Barack Obama from 2008: “My family gave me love. They gave me an education. And most of all, they gave me hope. Hope, hope that in America, no dream is beyond our grasp if we reach for it, and fight for it, and work for it.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “I get the same thrill up my leg, all over me, every time I hear those words. I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that’s me. He’s talking about my country and nobody does it better. Can President Obama stir us again and help his party keep power this November?”
— Setting up a segment on MSNBC’s Hardball, September 7. [MP3 Audio]





Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2010 (December 2009 through November 2010).

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 46 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to eight quotes in each category [List of Judges]. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed alongside each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a “Quote of the Year” denoting the most outrageous quote of 2010.

The MRC’s Michelle Humphrey and Melissa Lopez distributed and counted the ballots. Alex Fitzsimmons helped produce the numerous audio and video clips included in the Web-posted version. Rich Noyes and Brent Baker assembled this issue and Brad Ash posted the entire package on the MRC’s Web site.

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Featured Award Categories

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The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble
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Rodney Dangerfield Award for Demanding Respect for Obama's "Achievements"
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Damn Those Conservatives Award
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The Shovel Ready Media Award for Claiming Success for Obama's "Stimulus"
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They Don't Miss Him Yet Award for Still Bashing Bush
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No Wonder It Sold For $1 Award for Newsweek's Priceless Bias
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Media Hero Award
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Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery
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Dumb and Dumber Award for Matthews and Olbermann's Leftist Blatherings
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The Ground Zeroes Award for Impugning Americans as Islamophobic
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Hazing Arizona Award for Denigrating Immigration Enforcement
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The Supremely Slanted Award for Elevating Elena Kagan
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The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
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Obama's Orderlies Award for Prepping America for ObamaCare
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The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh
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The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year
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The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity



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Online Picks for Worst Media Bias of 2010

Watch and read even more liberal bias in the MRC's "public ballot." Results were announced on December 17.


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