C-SPAN Aired MRC's 'DisHonors Awards' Saturday Night; Video Now Online
On Saturday night (May 28) C-SPAN twice ran the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards,” and presentation of the “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence,” which took place May 7 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
Before each airing, C-SPAN’s announcer warned: “This event contains language and comments that some viewers may find offensive.” I’d call that a good reason to watch.
C-SPAN’s “DisHonors Awards Ceremony” page now has video you can watch which matches what the network carried. It lasts one hour and forty minutes.
Or, you can watch our own video clips of the event on our DisHonors page. Full event in a single video.
What you’ll be able to see via C-SPAN.org or on the MRC's page:
Neal Boortz, Ann Coulter, Andrew Klavan, Erick Erickson, Congressman Steve King and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli highlighted the MRC's “2011 Gala featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporting” presented on Saturday night, May 7, before an audience of more than 800 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Following the presentation of the DisHonors Awards videos in five categories and a look at some “funny clips” from the news, the audience picked an anti-conservative outburst from MSNBC’s Ed Schultz as the “Quote of the Year.” Schultz screamed: “The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They’d rather make money off your dead corpse!” Link below.
MRC President Brent Bozell also honored leading conservative commentator and columnist Cal Thomas with the MRC’s fifth annual “William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.” Thomas paid tribute to Buckley for inspiring his quest to become a columnist, thanked Los Angeles Times publisher Tom Johnson for giving him the chance and credited God with providing him “the gift of writing.”
> Video of Brent Bozell presenting and Cal Thomas accepting the William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence.
DisHonors Awards winners were selected by a distinguished panel of 14 leading media observers: Tony Blankley, Neal Boortz, Monica Crowley, Erick Erickson, Sean Hannity, Larry Kudlow, Mark Levin, David Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Al Regnery, Cal Thomas, Walter E. Williams and Thomas S. Winter. Judge page with pictures and links.
Bozell served as Master of Ceremonies. Neal Boortz, a nationally-syndicated talk radio host, presented the first two awards; followed by novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan who set up the “funny clips” and announced the third DisHonors awards, before best-selling author and columnist Ann Coulter handled the fourth and fifth award categories.
> Video of Andrew Klavan presenting Brent Baker’s funny video clips, scroll down this page.
Video links below for all five awards.
In place of the journalist who won each award, a conservative accepted it in jest. Those standing in for the winners: Erick Erickson of Editor RedState.com, Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler, founders of the Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, Congressman Steve King, Republican of Iowa, and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli – who earned a standing ovation for his successful legal effort to block implementation of ObamaCare.
As noted above, Ed Schultz earned the “Quote of the Year” distinction as voted by the audience.
To make the decision, MRC President Brent Bozell asked the presenters and acceptors back on stage (Neal Boortz, Andrew Klavan, Ann Coulter, Erick Erickson, Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler, Tim Phillips, Congressman Steve King and Ken Cuccinelli.)
Then the attendees saw all the winning videos again in four categories – “The Obamagasm Award” (Evan Thomas), “Damn the Tea Party to Hell Award” (Tavis Smiley), “Ode to Olbermann Award” (Keith Olbermann) and “Damn Those Conservatives Award” (Ed Schultz).
As a picture of each nominee was displayed, audience members were asked to hoot, cheer, applaud and use noisemakers to express their opinion on which quote deserved the Quote of the Year designation as the worst bias since the MRC’s last DisHonors Awards in early 2009.
Those on stage huddled and Mark Meckler announced they decided Ed Schultz generated the most-venomous reaction from the audience for this outburst on The Ed Show of September 23, 2009: “The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They’d rather make money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don’t have anything for her.”
> Video from the event of the audience seeing the options and making their Quote of the Year choice known.
> Video of Neal Boortz presenting The Obamagasm Award, won by Evan Thomas, and accepted in jest by Erick Erickson.
> Video of Neal Boortz presenting The Tea Party from Hell Award, won by Tavis Smiley, and accepted in jest by Jenny Beth Martin with Mark Meckler.
> Video of Andrew Klavan presenting The I'm Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award, won by Rob Reiner, aka “Meathead,” and accepted in jest by Tim Phillips.
> Video of Ann Coulter presenting the Ode to Olbermann Award, won, no surprise, by Keith Olbermann, and accepted in jest by Congressman Steve King.
> Video of Ann Coulter presenting the Damn Those Conservatives Award, won by Ed Schultz, and accepted in jest by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
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Comments
Will this be broadcast in HD?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 3:17pm.
It better be, cause if not, it aint worth it! In this day and age it should be a must! Will this be aired uncensored? Or is it just the libs who cuss and have nip slips?
No censoring necessary NJR.
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 3:22pm.
No censoring necessary NJR. I was there with a fellow NB'r and not a single cuss word was uttered from any of the speakers at the Gala. It appears to be only the libturds who consistently descend into the gutter.
Oh, darn, lol
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 4:11pm.
Ok, I'll be watching!
Excellent
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:19pm.
That show was a riot and THANK YOU for the chance to watch it on the Internet. Lots of hard work obviously put into it, and very much appreciated. Everyone did a fantastic job. At the rate that arrogant/ignorant Schultz is doing these days, he will probably win next year also. Thanks again!!!!
WTH?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 1:02am.
For some reason, this post caused Firefox to crash twice on my computer.
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Loved it!
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 4:41am.
You must certainly have enough material to do a show once a month. I know that I'd be tuning in. The jabs from all the speakers were great. Klavan is always good.
The only hitch was the sound man. Most DJ's can que music and take ques from the speakers better than that. I could use the gig next time around. -bidn-
I watched a little bit of
Submitted by Icarus on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 10:09am.
I watched a little bit of that. Neal Boortz implied he wanted Keith Olbermann to die. It's kind of crazy to be dishonoring controversial comments while making controversial comments oneself, isn't it?
And Ann Coulter is allowed to come to the "dishonoring controversial comments" awards? The person who dropped the F-bomb at CPAC a few years ago?
I saw parts, too
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 1:14pm.
Bozell stumbled and was bloviating his share in the parts I saw. Oh, well... I guess we can come down to their level...but why.
I have zero respect for Boortz
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 1:17pm.
He would never know this, but one of his glib Darwin Waiting Room cracks crushed our family--the fam member, a teen, was dead and he implied it was because she had to be taken off the evolutionary board for being stupid. I bet he never thinks of the effects of what he says.
Icarus lies again.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 2:45pm.
But wait, your diapers are full because I said you lied every time you come here. And yep, what do we find.
Icarus LIE: Neal Boortz implied he wanted Keith Olbermann to die... --- Boorz said too bad he is not lobster food. NOT an implication. YOU LIE.
Icarus LIE: Ann Coulter... ...dropped the F-bomb at CPAC. --- faggot is not the F-Bomb. Idiot. YOU LIE.
Hey, whiny sissy baby. This site is about LIBERAL BIAS. You want conservative bias, go to the site about conservative bias -- www.whinysissybabies.org
Thanks!
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 8:55pm.
Proof that the Left can dish it out, but can't take it.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
There were no F-Bombs!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 6:33pm.
Nor was there any cussing! I was screaming from home, but everyone presented themselves with class and aplomb! But the big question is,,who was that FOX presenting the awards trophies? I think he said her name was Brianna(sp)? ok, Brianna what? And where can we see her again?THATS what we want to know!
Here's a list of people I'd
Submitted by talkradio55 on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 4:48pm.
Here's a list of people I'd like to see next year, some of the young blood:
S.E. Cupp
Andrea Tantaros
Mary Katharine Ham
Guy Benson
Amanda Carpenter
Andrew Breitbart
James O'Keefe
Hannah Giles