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Award Categories

• The Coronation of the Messiah Award for Fawning Inaugural Coverage
• Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery
• The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh
• Damn Those Conservatives Award
• The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble
• Spread the Wealth Award for Socialist Sermonizing
• Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy
• The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
• The Un-Fairness Doctrine Award for Slamming Media Conservatives
• Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews
• Barry’s Big Brain Award for Journalists Bedazzled by Obama’s Brilliance
• The Audacity of Dopes Award for Wackiest Analysis of the Year
• The Obamagasm Award for Seeing Coolness In Everything Obama Does
• Michelle, the Media Belle Award
• Media Hero Award
• The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity
• Quote of the Year
• 2009 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 28: MRC President Brent Bozell discusses worst media quotes of 2009, part 1. Watch video on the NewsBusters blog or via Eyeblast.tv
• FNC's Fox & Friends, December 30: MRC President Brent Bozell discusses worst media quotes of 2009, part 2. Watch video on the NewsBusters blog or via Eyeblast.tv
• Breitbart TV's B-Cast with Scott Baker and Liz Stephans, “Bozell Unveils Worst Media Bias Quotes of 2009,” December 21. Watch video on the NewsBusters blog or via Breitbart TV.
• “Fox Newswatch Highlights Couric & Klein in MRC's Awards for Worst Reporting,” December 26. Watch video on NewsBusters blog or via Eyeblast.tv
• Newsmax.com interview, "Bozell Raps Couric, Others for Worst Reporting," December 31. Watch video or read article.
• Notable Quotables Show, end of year edition featuring the MRC staff ridiculing journalists highlighted in the “Best Notable Quotables of 2009.” Watch video on the NewsBusters blog or via Eyeblast.tv

Print/Online:

• American Spectator's “Streetcar Line” blog by Quin Hillyer, December 11: “Media Belles at the Ball”
• Washington Examiner, “Yeas & Nays” by Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri, December 21: “Poking fun: Media Research Center picks out who loved Obama the most”
  
  
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• U.S. News & World Report, “Washington Whispers” by Paul Bedard, December 21: “Media's Most Outrageous Quotes of 2009”
• Washington Times, “Inside the Beltway” by Jennifer Harper, December 23: “Eye of Beholder”
• Creators syndicate, column by Brent Bozell, December 23: “A Year of Obama Love” (Read on TownHall or The Oklahoman)
• Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen, December 24: “The liberal media awards”
• OneNewsNow.com, December 29 by Pete Chagnon: “And the award for wacky analysis goes to....” Plus, December 22: “Worst reporting of 2009 - who made the cut?”
• Human Events, December 30: “Most Outrageous Media Quotes of 2009”
• Washington Times, "Hot Button" by Amander Carpenter, December 31: "Quote of the Year"