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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Grand Hyatt Washington
 

Cal Thomas, Neal Boortz, Herman Cain, Mary Matalin, Michael Steele, G. Gordon Liddy, Pat Sajak, Ward Connerly and "Osama bin Laden" highlighted the presentations and acceptances of the MRC’s "2007 DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2006" -- the showcase of the MRC's 20th Anniversary Gala -- presented on Thursday night, March 29, before an audience of more than 1,000 packed into the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C.

Following the presentation of the DisHonors Awards videos in five categories (see links to videos below), a look at some "funny clips" from 2006, a highlight reel of past galas and the audience picking the "Quote of the Year," the evening was topped off with Rush Limbaugh accepting the MRC's first annual "William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence."

DisHonors Awards winners were selected by a distinguished panel of 13 leading media observers, including Limbaugh, Tony Blankley, Ann Coulter, Steve Forbes, Mark Levin, Robert Novak, Walter E. Williams and Thomas S. Winter, who served as judges.

Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist and panelist on FNC's Fox News Watch, served as Master of Ceremonies and explained how illness prevented scheduled presenters Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter from attending. Syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz presented the first two awards, followed by business leader Herman Cain who set up the funny clips and presented the third award. Mary Matalin, a former adviser to President Bush and Vice President Cheney, handled the fourth and fifth awards.

In place of the journalist who won each award, a conservative accepted it in jest. Those standing in for the winners: Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy, game show host Pat Sajak and Ward Connerly, President of the American Civil Rights Institute. Plus, "Osama bin Laden" accepted an award via video from a cave in Pakistan.

The evening began with welcoming remarks from Cal Thomas, an invocation by Father John Hopkins and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Rear Admiral James J. Carey (Retired). Between the fifth award and the "Quote of the Year" competition, Cain and Dick Eckburg, the Chairman of the MRC Board Trustees, honored MRC President L. Brent Bozell with a Steven Penley painting of Bozell and conservative opinion leaders integral in the MRC's 20-year history.


    
 
   
   

Rush Limbaugh accepts the MRC's "William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media
Excellence."
Transcripts and Limbaugh's radio re-cap



   

  
  

Brent Bozell is joined on stage by G. Gordon Liddy, Ward Connerly, Hermain Cain, Neal Boortz, Mary Matalin, Pat Sajak, and Cal Thomas for the selection of the “Quote of the Year” by audience participation.
 



Videos of Award Nominees and Winners:
 

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  God, I Hate America Award
See nominees and winner | Accepted by Michael Steele
  Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis
See nominees and winner | Accepted by G. Gordon Liddy
  The I’m Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award
See nominees and winner | Accepted by
Pat Sajak
  Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories
See nominees and winner | Accepted by "Osama bin Ladin"
  Puppy Love Award
See nominees and winner | Accepted by Ward Connerly

 

 


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