Best of NQ 2011

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


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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:

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  • FNC's Hannity. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the award-winning quotes with guest host Mark Steyn on the Fox News Channel on Thursday, December 22. Video
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Category 12 of 17

MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award



Winner

Chris Matthews (66 points)

Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page: “Well this is Newt’s time to run....He has a good shot at winning the nomination. Winning the general is a whole different matter. But this-”

Host Chris Matthews, interrupting: “But he looks like a car bomber. He looks like a car bomber, Clarence. He looks like a car bomber. He’s got that crazy Mephistophelian grin of his. He looks like he loves torturing. Look at the guy! I mean this, this is not the face of a President.”

— MSNBC’s Hardball, March 2. [MP3 Audio]


Runners-up

Chris Matthews (62 points)

Host Chris Matthews: “One thing I notice about black people at different conventions. You go to a Democratic convention with Donna [Edwards] and black folk are hanging together and having a good time. They’re smiling, they’re enjoying themselves. They feel very much at home. You go to a Republican event, you get a feeling that you are all told, ‘Individually now, don’t bunch up. Don’t, don’t, don’t get together. Don’t get together, don’t crowd, you’ll scare these people.’ Is that true in the Republican Party? Is that still true in your party? Did you fear that if you got together with some other African-Americans, these white guys might get scared of you?”

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele: “No! What are you talking about?!”

— MSNBC’s Hardball, January 17. [MP3 Audio]


Chris Matthews (29 points)

“The utter confusion in the Republican presidential nominating process results from two discernible facts. One: they hate. That’s the simplest explanation of the disastrous course of this selection process. They hate so much they are not in the mood to fall in love with a candidate or even fall in behind someone. Their brains, racked as they are by hatred, they lack the ‘like’ mode. They are in no mood looking around for a politician they like. The hating is so much more satisfying.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, November 15. [MP3 Audio]


Chris Matthews (29 points)

“Is the Republican Party willing to risk economic Armageddon in the name of religion, that is the religion of no taxes? Well, the GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology....The Party’s being driven by fanatics and they’re determined to bounce America’s savings bonds and have the United States begin to become like Greece.”
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 5. [MP3 Audio]