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Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories
Blue State Brigade Award for Campaign Reporting
Madness of King George Award for Bush Bashing
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
Slam Uncle Sam Award
Damn Those Conservatives Award
Terrorists Have Rights Too Award for Condemning “Domestic Spying”
Drowning Polar Bear Award for Promoting Gore’s Inconvenient “Truth”
Pain at the Pump Award for Bashing “Big Oil”
Media Hero Award
Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis
Good Morning Morons Award
Cranky Dinosaur Award for Trashing the New Media
State of Denial Award for Refusing to Acknowledge Liberal Bias
Recognizing the Obvious Award for Admitting There’s Liberal Media Bias
Quote of the Year
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Quote of the Year

New York Times Publisher
Arthur Sulzberger

Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories   Madness of King George Award for Bush Bashing   Damn Those Conservatives Award   Terrorists Have Rights Too Award for Condemning "Domestic Spying"

CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric
 
CNN’s The Situation Room Wolf Blitzer & Jack Cafferty
 
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann
 
ABC’s Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer
Drowning Polar Bear Award for Promoting Gore’s Inconvenient "Truth"   Pain at the Pump Award for Bashing "Big Oil"   Media Hero Award   Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

NBC’s Today Katie Couric & Al Gore
 
CBS Evening News, Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi
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ABC’s Nightline, Terry Moran
 
FNC’s Hannity & Colmes, Harry Belafonte & Hugo Chavez
Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis   Good Morning Morons Award   Cranky Dinosaur Award for Trashing the New Media   State of Denial Award for Refusing to Acknowledge Liberal Bias

HBO’s Real Sports, Bryant Gumbel
 
NBC’s Today, Katie Couric
 
MSNBC’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann
 
CNN’s Larry King Live, Dan Rather
 
Introduction
Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2006 (December 2005 through November 2006). To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 58 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and 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. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed in the brackets at the end of the attribution for each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a "Quote of the Year" denoting the most outrageous quote of 2006.

A list of the judges, who were generous with their time, appears on the back page. The MRC’s Michelle Humphrey, Karen Hanna and Kristine Looney distributed and counted the ballots, then produced the numerous audio and video clips that accompany the Web-posted version. Brent Baker and Rich Noyes assembled this issue and Michael Gibbons posted the entire package on the MRC’s Web site: www.mrc.org.

And please save this date: Thursday, March 29, 2007. At the Media Research Center’s 20th Anniversary Gala celebration that night in Washington, DC, the MRC will announce the winners of the DisHonors Awards of 2007: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters. Check www.mrc.org in early 2007 for additional information.

 
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2006
Award Winners
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Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories
Blue State Brigade Award for Campaign Reporting
Madness of King George Award for Bush Bashing
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
Slam Uncle Sam Award
Damn Those Conservatives Award
Terrorists Have Rights Too Award for Condemning “Domestic Spying”
Drowning Polar Bear Award for Promoting Gore’s Inconvenient “Truth”
Pain at the Pump Award for Bashing “Big Oil”
Media Hero Award
Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis
Good Morning Morons Award
Cranky Dinosaur Award for Trashing the New Media
State of Denial Award for Refusing to Acknowledge Liberal Bias
Recognizing the Obvious Award for Admitting There’s Liberal Media Bias
Quote of the Year