MRC 2004 DisHonors Awards -- Media Research Center

MRC's DisHonor Awards
Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2003
Thursday, March 18, 2004
The Omni Shoreham Hotel

First Award

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Baghdad Bob Award for
Parroting Enemy Propaganda

Runners-up:

Peter Arnett
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“Within the United States, there is growing challenge to President Bush about the conduct of the war and also opposition to the war. So our reports about civilian casualties here, about he resistance of the Iraqi forces are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war and it challenges the policy to develop their arguments.
“One other point, I’ve been mainly in Baghdad in the past few weeks, but clearly this is a city that is disciplined, the population is responsive to the government’s requirements of discipline and my Iraqi friends tell me there’s a growing sense of nationalism and resistance to what the United States and Britain is doing....
“Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. And I personally do not understand how that happened, because I’ve been here many times and in my commentaries on television I would tell the Americans about the determination of the Iraqi forces, the determination of the government, and the willingness to fight for their country. But me, and others who felt the same way, were not listened to by the Bush administration.
“That is why now America is re-appraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week, and re-writing the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance; now they’re trying to write another war plan.”
-- Then-NBC/MSNBC/National Geographic Explorer correspondent Peter Arnett’s comments on Iraq’s state-controlled television network, March 30, 2003 shown by C-SPAN.

“There’s not a good deal for Iraqis to be happy about at the moment. Life is still very chaotic, beset by violence in many cases, huge shortages. In some respects, Iraqis keep telling us life is not as stable for them as it was when Saddam Hussein was in power.”
-- ABC’s Peter Jennings during a prime-time special on December 14, 2003 the day Saddam’s capture by American forces was announced.

And the winner is:

ABC's Diane Sawyer
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Diane Sawyer: “I read this morning that he’s [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he’s been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.”
Dan Harris in Baghdad: “He is one to point out quite frequently that he is part of a historical trend in this country of restoring Iraq to its greatness, its historical greatness. He points out frequently that he was elected with a hundred percent margin recently.”
-- ABC’s Good Morning America, March 7, 2003.

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Joe Scarborough presenting the
Baghdad Bob Award for
Parroting Enemy Propaganda

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Jeane Kirkpatrick accepting
the award for Diane Sawyer

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