Media Research Center -- DisHonors Awards 2006 -- Media Research Center

Quote of the Year

Selected by audience participation

Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. I mean, you know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That happens all the, all the time." Wolf Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong-Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn’t that a fair assessment?" Turner: "Well, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look — in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people I’ve met." Blitzer: "But, look at the way, look at the way he’s, look at the way he’s treating his own people." Turner: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but–" Blitzer: "A lot of those people are starving." Turner: "I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality...." *— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, September 19.*		\|\|

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Brent Bozell, joined on stage by Cal Thomas, Tony Blankley, Mark Levin and Larry Kudlow, judge the audience's preference for the Quote of the Year

Funny Clips

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Mark Levin presented a series of unintentionally humorous clips from network newscasts, including a "Never Used!" post-it on a CBS News Standards guidebook.

Closing Remarks from MRC's Bozell

2006 DisHonors Awards Judges

Tony Blankley, Editorial Editor of the Washington Times and McLaughlin Group panelist
Neal Boortz, Atlanta-based nationally syndicated radio talk show host
L. Brent Bozell III, President of the Media Research Center
William F. Buckley, Jr., Editor-at-Large of National Review
Steve Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes Inc.
John Fund, columnist for OpinionJournal.com
Sean Hannity, co-host of FNC’s Hannity & Colmes and an ABC Radio talk show host
Laura Ingraham, analyst and nationally syndicated radio talk show host
Mark Levin, nationally syndicated ABC Radio talk show host
Rush Limbaugh, host of The Rush Limbaugh Show
Mary Matalin, Editor-in-Chief, Threshold Editions
Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist and commentator for the Fox News Channel
Kate O’Beirne, Washington Editor of National Review
William Rusher, Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute
Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated columnist and a panelist on FNC's Fox Newswatch
Walter E. Williams, columnist and professor of economics at George Mason University
Thomas S. Winter, Editor-in-Chief of Human Events