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


Third Award

Media Know It All Award

Runners-up:

Lesley Stahl & Colin Powell

Lesley Stahl: “The Powell Doctrine in military terms is that you throw a massive force, if you’re going to go to war, make it huge. There are now criticisms, we’re beginning to hear, that this force isn’t massive enough.”
Colin Powell: “It’s nonsense....The United States armed forces, with our coalition partners -- the British, principally, and the Australians -- have gone 300 miles deep into Iraq in a period of five days. That is a heck of an achievement.”
Stahl: “Yeah, but our, the rear is exposed.”
Powell: “It’s not. Exposed to what? Exposed to small-“
Stahl: “Exposed to Fedayeen, exposed-”
Powell: “Fine. So? We’ll get them in due course...” 
Stahl: “Are you saying you’re not worried or concerned about guerilla warfare?”
Powell: “Of course we are and that, and we’re trained to handle this. But this chatter for the last 24 hours that everything is coming apart because on Sunday we took a few casualties. The casualties for this operation have been low. You don’t want to slow your advance to go into a particular city and spend all your time routing out people that you will get in due course. They are not threatening the advance.”
Stahl: “But you can’t get your supplies, well you can’t-”
Powell: “Who says?”
Stahl: “-can’t get the humanitarian-”
Powell: “Who says?”
Stahl: “-well you can’t get the humanitarian aid in there.”
Powell: “...The situation will change rapidly.”
Stahl: “How did we get to a place where much of the world thinks that George Bush is more evil than Saddam Hussein?”
-- Exchange on CBS’s 48 Hours, March 25, 2003 the 6th day of the war.
ABC's Peter Jennings “The President’s tax cut is beginning to show up. Will three extra dollars stimulate the national economy?”
-- Peter Jennings teasing a July 8, 2003 story on ABC’s World News Tonight about the supposed average size of the tax cut.

 

 

And the winner is:

Howell Raines “Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological, and that strives to be independent of undue commercial or governmental influence....But we don’t wear the political collar of our owners or the government or any political party. It is that legacy we must protect with our diligent stewardship. To do so means we must be aware of the energetic effort that is now underway to convince our readers that we are ideologues. It is an exercise of, in disinformation, of alarming proportions, this attempt to convince the audience of the world’s most ideology-free newspapers that they’re being subjected to agenda-driven news reflecting a liberal bias.”
-- Then-New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accepting the “George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award” at a National Press Foundation dinner shown live on C-SPAN2, February 20, 2003.

 


Michelle Malkin presenting the
Media Know It All Award


Al Regnery accepting the award
for Howell Raines

 

 


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