The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President David Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2025 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Matthew Dowd! 

Geoffrey Dickens
December 17th, 2025 10:10 AM

Psaki Mourns Trump Seized Biden-Sanctioned Tanker Without Congress

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki must have a short memory because on her Tuesday episode of The Briefing on MS NOW, she attacked President Trump for seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker without Congressional approval despite the tanker being first sanctioned by her former boss, President Biden, slightly after she left the administration in 2022.

Alex Christy
December 17th, 2025 10:09 AM

Column: When Republicans Do Long Interviews with Liberal Journalists

Whenever Republican officials sit for an extensive interview or series of interviews with a liberal media source, their supporters will ask: Why did you have to do that? Why does Donald Trump need to speak to Michael Wolff or Bob Woodward? Now, it’s Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles talking to author Chris Whipple for the lefties of Vanity Fair.

Tim Graham
December 17th, 2025 5:56 AM

Today's Highlights: What MRC's Media Watchdogs are Saying

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media. 

 

Catherine Mortensen
December 17th, 2025 12:01 AM

Senator Fetterman Goes on Cuomo, DESTROYS the Fake War Crimes Hoax

For the past few weeks and as part of the “Don’t Give Up the Ship” operation, we’ve been told that the United States military has been blowing up random drug boats in the southern Caribbean, particularly close to Venezuela. Today, for the first time, we hear a Democrat discuss Operation Southern Spear with a perspective that goes beyond party orthodoxy.

Jorge Bonilla
December 16th, 2025 11:53 PM

CLEAN UP on Aisle ABC: Network Changes Tune on Absurd Sydney Coverage

Hours after the Monday edition of ABC’s Good Morning America refused to ascribe motive to the attack in Sydney, Australia on a Hanukkah celebration or label it either anti-Semitism or radical Islamic terror, the network’s flagship evening newscast World News Tonight and Tuesday’s Good Morning America promptly engaged in a serious clean-up mode.

Curtis Houck
December 16th, 2025 6:07 PM

‘Shocking New Docs’ Show Biden’s DOJ Pressured FBI to Raid Mar-a-Lago

“It's true,” FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Tuesday amid reports that newly-declassified documents show that President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) pressured the FBI to conduct the infamous 2022 raid of then-former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home – even though the FBI repeated warned that such a raid was unwarranted.

Craig Bannister
December 16th, 2025 4:44 PM

7 Outlets Cry Polar Bears ‘Rewriting’ DNA to Fight Climate Change

Apparently, our furry friends in the Arctic are becoming ingenious chemists to fight the climate boogeyman didn’t you know! At least, that’s the kooky notion a number of lefty outlets are pushing in their latest batch of climate change codswallop. 

Joseph Vazquez
December 16th, 2025 3:47 PM

Cuomo Blasts Mediaite, Don Lemon for Abandoning ‘Ethics’ for ‘Profit’

It’s probably safe to say that the work bromance shared between former CNN colleagues Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon was over. During the Monday night edition of Cuomo’s eponymous show, the NewsNation host blasted social media algorithms for feeding people largely hate and animus. He quickly pivoted to calling out Mediaite for feeding into it by running an article about Don Lemon attacking…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 16th, 2025 3:01 PM

Ana Navarro Says Boat Strikes a ‘Distraction’ from Trump’s Takes

As certain as the Sun rising in the East and as inevitable as death and taxes is the likelihood of ABC’s The View commentator Ana Navarro coming on CNN air and endumbening our political discourse with a galaxy-brain take on any of the issues of the day. Last night’s “Thunderdome” appearance was no exception, as Navarro delivered a mind-melting theory on why THREE narcovessels were hit…

Jorge Bonilla
December 16th, 2025 1:28 PM

Employment ‘Little Changed’ in November, Despite 168K Federal Drop

Despite a loss of 168,000 federal government jobs, November’s unemployment situation was “little changed,” the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Tuesday.

Craig Bannister
December 16th, 2025 1:11 PM

SNL's Trump Brags About Being a Pirate, Shooting Santa

James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when he falsely described his seizing of a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker as piracy and bragged about shooting down Santa Claus.

Alex Christy
December 16th, 2025 12:47 PM

Doofus Darcy Cries Foul at NewsNation Hiring Pavlich, Spins Conspiracy

In his Monday night newsletter, former conservative media Benedict Arnold and Status founder Oliver Darcy expressed horror that the great people at NewsNation would hire “MAGA Media type personality” Katie Pavlich away from the Fox News Channel (and Townhall) to host a weekday primetime show and argued it “makes little sense”...unless it was to explicitly curry favor with Federal…

Curtis Houck
December 16th, 2025 12:32 PM

BREAKING: Trump Sues BBC for $10 Billion for Mangled January 6 Edit

Fox News media reporters Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn reported President Donald Trump filed a “monster $10 billion lawsuit” on Monday against the taxpayer-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for its 2024 "Panorama" documentary that blatantly…

Tim Graham
December 16th, 2025 10:57 AM