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Roasting the Most
Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2002
Thursday, March 27, 2003
The Omni Shoreham Hotel
First Award
Ozzy Osbourne Award
(for the Wackiest Comment of the Year)
Runners-up:
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Ari
Fleischer: “Helen?”
Helen Thomas: “Does the President consider this [election outcome] a mandate to fulfill his agenda? Going to war with Iraq, privatizing Social Security, weakening the Civil Service Commission and so forth?”
Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: “Helen, you sound like a commercial that didn’t work.”
— Exchange at White House press briefing, Nov. 6.
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“If I were biased, I don’t believe I would have gotten the job.”
— George Stephanopoulos after he was named host of ABC’s This
Week, as quoted in a June 19 Newsday story.
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And
the winner is:
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“Seven years ago, when the last referendum took place, Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that’s a true measure of the Iraqi people’s feelings.”
— ABC’s David Wright, in Baghdad, on World News Tonight, October 15. |
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Sean
Hannity presents the Ozzy Osbourne Award
(for the Wackiest Comment of the Year) |
  
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