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Roasting the Most
Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2004
Thursday, April
21, 2005
The JW Marriott Hotel
First Award
REALLY Time to Retire Award
Runners-up:
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CBS’s Morley Safer: “You talk about a vision, and it’s some kind of abstract, vague idea. Did his
[Ronald Reagan’s] vision include extraordinary deficits? Did his vision include cutting of the budgets for
education and a back of the hand in terms of public education?”
King: “History will not be kind to him?”
Safer: “No, I don’t think history particularly will be kind.”
King: “You don’t?”
Safer: “They’ll talk about all that superficial stuff that all of you have been talking about. But
when it gets down to the real substance, I don’t think history has any reason to be kind to him.”
— CNN’s Larry King Live, June 14 discussion about Ronald Reagan’s legacy.
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“Today, on the Internet and elsewhere, some people, including many who are partisan political operatives,
concentrated not on the key questions of the overall story, but on the documents that were part of the
support of the story. They allege that the documents are fake....
“The 60 Minutes report was based not solely on the recovered documents, but on a preponderance of the
evidence, including documents that were provided by what we consider to be solid sources and interviews
with former officials of the Texas National Guard. If any definitive evidence to the contrary of our story
is found, we will report it. So far, there is none.”
— Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, September 10. |
And
the winner is:
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“I have a feeling that it [bin Laden’s new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little
inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that
he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.”
— Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite on CNN’s
Larry King Live, October 29. |
Sean Hannity presenting award |
Colin McNickle accepts award |
  
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