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The Best Notable Quotables of 1997:
The Tenth Annual Awards for the
Year’s Worst Reporting
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"The mood of the Republican congressional leadership is so ideologically obtuse as to
doom even this modest first step down the path of responsibility. They would rather kill people
than raise taxes."
-- Former Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Scheer in an April 22 column on
the Kennedy-Hatch health for children bill. [111 points] |
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"Newt Gingrich's problem, I've always thought, he's like Lenin. They both made a
revolution by shooting people -- Newt shot Democrats, Lenin shot everybody -- and then they didn't
have enough sense to stop shooting once they won. So, I mean, once you win, you say, 'Okay,
now I've shot all your relatives, but you're a good guy, let's work together.' Instead, Newt shut
down the government and kept on trying to shoot Democrats."
-- ABC's Sam Donaldson on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 8. [96]
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"Earlier tonight, we reported the President's apology for medical experiments that
allowed black Americans to die of syphilis. The President noted how badly this hurt public trust
in government, especially among minorities. The same criticism is being made today on
another score. As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, it's the fallout from
California's voter-approved ban on state affirmative action programs."
-- Dan Rather introducing May 16 CBS Evening News story on drop in minority admissions. [66]
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"The problem [of pedophiles] has been made only worse by the passage of Proposition 187.
It specifically says that no public funds can be used to provide social services to anyone who's
in this country illegally. That means that even if social workers for the city or the state wanted
to help the boys of Balboa Park they couldn't. It would be against the law. Proposition 187 is
now being challenged in court, but its message is clear."
-- John Quinones in March 19 Prime Time Live story on pedophiles preying on Mexican boys in a San Diego park. [50]
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1997 Award Judges:
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Brent Baker, Editor of MediaWatch and
Notable Quotables
Mark Belling, talk show host, WISN in Milwaukee
Neal Boortz, talk show host, WSB in Atlanta
L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman, the Media Research Center
George Brown, talk show host, WTAG in Worcester, Mass.
David Brudnoy, talk host, WBZ; Boston U. communications prof.
Priscilla Buckley, Senior Editor of National Review
Tucker Carlson, staff writer, The Weekly Standard
Don Cook, Program Director, WCHS in Charleston, WVa.
Mark Davis, talk host, WBAP; columnist, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
Midge Decter, author, New York City
Jim Eason, talk show host, KSFO in San Francisco
Barry Farber, nationally syndicated talk show host
Don Feder, Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist
John Fund, editorial board member, The Wall Street Journal
Tim Graham, Director, media analysis, Media Research Center
David Gold, talk show host, KWRD in Dallas and Salem Radio
Kirk Healy, Executive Producer, Cox Radio, Orlando
Arianna Huffington, nationally syndicated columnist
Marie Kaigler, talk radio host and broadcaster, Detroit
Cliff Kincaid, co-host, Media Monitor
Paul Koloski, Editorial Editor, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Tim Lamer, Director, Free Market Project; Editor, MediaNomics
Mark Larson, talk host and general manager, KPRZ in San Diego
Richard Lessner, Editorial Page Director, Union Leader (N.H.)
Jason Lewis, talk show host, KSTP in Minneapolis/St. Paul
G. Gordon Liddy, national talk show host, CBS/Westwood One
Rich Lowry, national political reporter for National Review
Ross Mackenzie, Editor, editorial pg, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Tony Macrini, broadcaster, WNIS in Norfolk
Marlin Maddoux, host, Point of View radio talk show
Don Markwell, radio talk show host, WACV in Montgomery
Mary Matalin, national talk show host, CBS/Westwood Radio
Patrick McGuigan, Editor, editorial page, The Oklahoman
Jan Mickelson, talk show host, WHO in Des Moines
Wes Minter, talk show host, KCMO in Kansas City M.
Jane Norris, WAVE-TV host, WHAS talk radio host, Louisville
Robert D. Novak, syndicated columnist; CNN commentator
Kate O'Beirne, Washington Editor for National Review
Marvin Olasky, professor of journalism, U. of Texas at Austin
Janet Parshall, nationally syndicated radio talk show host
Henry Payne, editorial cartoonist & columnist, Scripps
Howard Dan Pierce, talk show host, WGIR in Manchester, NH
Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, Executive Editor, American Spectator
Michael Reagan, nationally syndicated radio talk show host
Mike Rosen, talk show host, KOA; columnist, Denver Post
William Rusher, Distinguished Fellow, Claremont Institute
Melanie Scarborough, ed. writer, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Ron Smith, talk show host, WBAL in Baltimore
Ted J. Smith III, journalism professor, Virginia Commonwealth U.
Philip Terzian, syndicated columnist
Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated columnist
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator
Armstrong Williams, nationally syndicated columnist
Dick Williams, columnist; host of Atlanta's The Georgia Gang
Walter Williams, Professor of economics, George Mason U.
Thomas Winter, Editor-in-Chief of Human Events
Barry Young, President of WestStar TalkRadio Network, Phoenix |
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