The Worst 'Notable Quotables' of 2007

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Before we ring in 2008, it's worth taking a look back at some of the liberal media's goofiest or most outrageous moments, courtesy of the Media Research Center's Best Notable Quotables of 2007: The Twentieth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. The awards were determined by a panel of 53 distinguished media observers, including radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, editorial writers and informed media observers.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews was a big "winner" this year, taking the top slot in three categories -- the "Blue State Brigade Award for Campaign Reporting," the “Channeling the Nut Roots Award,” and the "Dynamic Duo Award for Idolizing Bill and Hillary," for (in order) gushing over Barack Obama, suggesting Bush and Cheney be tried for Nuremberg-style war crimes, and equating Bill Clinton with Jesus Christ. Oh, what a busy year he had.

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With such a record, it may seem odd that Matthews was not even a runner-up for the “Tin Foil Hat Award for Crazy Conspiracy Theories” which was instead snatched by ABC daytime host Joy Behar for wondering on-air if the stroke that sickened Democratic Senator Tim Johnson was a Republican dirty trick: “I know what this party is capable of,” Behar informed her colleagues on The View. Behar edged out her former colleague, Rosie O’Donnell, who revealed the news that Rudy Giuliani had shipped “all of the steel” from the fallen World Trade Center twin towers to China “so there was no, like, metal to test.”

Barbara Walters -- she really knows how to hire them, doesn’t she?

Speaking of Walters, she won top honors in our “Media Hero Award” for a puffball interview she conducted with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez back in March. Walters made sure to inform the American public that Chavez “was warm, friendly…He talked about how hard his life was, how he wished he could be in love but you can’t be when you are heading a country.”

William Arkin, military columnist for the WashingtonPost.com, won the “America Makes Us Sick Award” for his January 30 screed against U.S. soldiers in Iraq wishing for more public support for their mission. “Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform,” Arkin railed. “[It] is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary -- oops sorry, volunteer -- force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.” Arkin later apologized, but just for using the word “mercenary.”

Perhaps trying to compete with Arkin’s idiocy, an ex-Washington Post writer won the “Madness of King George Award” for Bush bashing. Peter Mehlman, in a June 20 posting to the HuffingtonPost, explained how Bush was worse than “even the world’s worst fascist dictators, [who] at least meant well. They honestly thought they were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc….Bush set a new precedent. He came into office with the attitude of ‘I’m so tired of the public good. What about my good? What about my friends’ good?”

CBS’s Harry Smith won the “O Great Goracle Award” for slobbering at the toes of Al Gore. In a May 30 Early Show interview, a smitten Smith tried to stick a “Gore 2008” button on the great crusader against global warming. “Here, let’s see what it looks like,” Smith beamed. Runner-up Margaret Carlson fawningly raised Gore to Biblical heights: “He rose above a great injustice….[and] became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.”

On the issue of global warming, NBC’s Meredith Vieira won our “Good Morning Morons Award” for her panicky response to a warm day in January: “So I’m running in a park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? I can’t figure this out?”

There are many more such quotes, most posted with Flash video as well as downloadable audio and video clips, at our awards section at www.MRC.org. Be sure to check them out before next year’s foolishness makes 2007 seem a distant memory.

—Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center.


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CHRIS MATTHEWS

CHRIS MATTHEWS IS A BIASED LUNATIC. HE IS SECOND TO KEITH OLBERMAN WHO IS INFATUATED WITH BILL O'REILLY. SOMETIMES I THINK I AM WATCHING "COUNTDOWN" WITH BILL O'REILLY. IT IS A SHAME THAT A GROWN MAN, I THINK, LIKE OLBERMAN IS SO INSECURE IN HIS JOB THAT HE HAS TO MOCK OTHERS. HE IS TRUELY A PINHEAD.

Mike

I HONESTLY believe that Olbermann is queer for O'Reilly. I'll bet that if O'Reilly walked up and spoke to him that Olbermann would stand there shivering and pee his pants.

So dumb. So biased. So many.

So dumb. So biased. So many. You guys must have been like kids in a candy store - in a twisted kind of way...

Right Chris...so many

Right Chris...so many idiots; so little time....

Runner Up?

I don't know....this one for me kind of takes the cake:

Runner-up Margaret Carlson fawningly raised Gore to Biblical heights: “He rose above a great injustice….[and] became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.”  

All those heart-tugging words:  injustice; prophet; critically important; world.   And the kicker...about Al Gore!  Sheesh.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Hi Blonde. It reads like a

Hi Blonde. It reads like a parody, huh?

It certainly does, Chris

I've decided that instead of letting the inane stuff liberals blather upset me, I'm just going to enjoy the stupidity of it all. 

Kinda like Mika & Morning Joe.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

These shows really should

These shows really should come with a laugh track.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who's the dumbest viewer of all?

Anyone who watches ABC, CBS, or NBC. And you can't trust your local news media anymore either. It's not about delivering the news; it's about manipulating the news to promote their socialist agenda.

Remember, it was the Main Stream Media who coined and promoted the whole Red State/Blue State issue so that they could create non-existant stories and call it news. 

The only thing I trust is Doppler Radar.

Who needs...

....the comedy writers that are on strike when you have such people (Keith, Katie, Chris et.al.) making complete and utter fools of themselves. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

Dont' know if anyones seen

Dont' know if anyones seen this, or posted on it. I saw it over at Michelle Malkins site. Not well known but this guy takes the cake. He cant' wait for the biblical deluge and destruction of the Red States.

He's supposed to be an award winning journalist and Fullbright scholar and writes commentary for numerous publication's

Here's a small nugget:

 "There is a poetic justice to this of course. It is conservatives who are giving us the candidates who steadfastly refuse to have the nation take steps that could slow the pace of climate change, so it is appropriate that they should bear the brunt of its impact.

The important thing is that we, on the higher ground both actually and figuratively, need to remember that, when they begin their historic migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the city. They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of need, but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems, making sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes.

There will be much work to be done to help the earth and its residents—human and non-human—survive this man-made catastrophe, and we can’t have these future refugee troglodytes, should their personal disasters still fail to make them recognize reality, mucking things up again."

 http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/87

 

It's so deliciously ridiculous that one almost believes when reading it, that it's satire. Sadly it's not, and it's offer's proof to the reality of the liberal mindset, albeit far-far-left.

Be sure to check out the comment's section, and see how he get's ripped to pieces. That's where the real comedy is.

Now let's change redstate to New Orlean's and conservative trogdolytes to Katrina victim's and what if a conservative said it. Oh that's right Jerry Falwell did say it and was lambasted for it

His site and commentary are rife with the usual suspect's of derangement syndrome and moonbattery. 

  

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

How can you only pick one or

How can you only pick one or two stupid things from these selections? In the galaxy of idiots that is the MSM, it is not easy to find the brightest star. Since liberals want everyone to win a la youth sports (everyone gets a trophy!), can't we just say they're all jabbering morons and give them prizes?

Peter Mehlman, in a June 20

Peter Mehlman, in a June 20 posting to the HuffingtonPost, explained
how Bush was worse than “even the world’s worst fascist dictators,
[who] at least meant well. They honestly thought they were doing good
things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating
Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing
off rivals/invading neighbors, etc

Didn't Will Smith just have to prostrate himself in public apology after saying something similar?

I don't recall any brouhaha when Mehlman said that.

Oh, wait! After he said it, he added that Bush was worse than Hitler because He came into office with the attitude of ‘I’m so tired of the public good. What about my good? What about my friends’ good?”

That explains it. Smith should have just made it plain that he was comparing Hitler favorably to President Bush. Then no one would have questioned him at all; he would have been a left-wing hero!

mb,It must pain the Left

mb,

It must pain the Left that they can think of no one worse than Hitler to compare favorably to Bush. They've beaten the Hitler reference into the ground and run out of evil comparisons. They can't use Stalin, because he was a communist and they've ignored his crimes against humanity for years. They can't use Satan, because that's too "Christian Right"-sounding. It must be terribly frustrating being a deranged leftist writer today, huh?

Babs - 430 civilians killed each and every day - by us?

One of my favorite idiotic quotes from the annual awards:   

Barbra Streisand - on ABC’s The View,

“I just want to say something: 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?...If you were in Iraq, and the other country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?” 

 That was in May 2007 ( I imagine the number was from Lancet, earlier on), which was 4 years and 2 months into the Iraq war. That would be approximately 1,525 days --- Which makes for an average of 430 Iraqi civilians dying each and every single day of the conflict. And, of course, according to Babs, killed by US troops.

 

Seems to me that the bad days in Iraq are bad enough. They read like, 20 killed in explosions; 20 found bound tortured and killed; 35 killed in two separate bombings, etc. Then there were a few absolutely horrific events, where 200-300 were killed in massive explosions, etc.  It sure would be helpful here, if Babs would pull out the 1525 daily stories which document this insane conspiracy theory.

 

Now, Babs. I do remember that back in the 1990's, your dawling Clinton administration admitted that some 500,000 children in Iraq had died as a result of the sanctions (as a result of Saddam) and that the Clinton administration - a staunch supporter of the sanctions, felt that that cost was well worth it. 

I guarantee you Babs, that since George Bush has been president, 500,000 children have not died in Iraq. Also during the 90's, 800,000 civilians died in Rwanda in a genocide; 60,000 died in Sierra Leone; some several million died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and a few more million died in Africa from HIV/Aids, while Bill Clinton did nothing then, to help. Bush came into office and set the standard for action to save lives - not to sit on his idle hands, and let them just keep dying.

Please Gary

Let's not bring facts to the table, it might be too upsetting to the left and the MSM...you know they think Clinton meant well and THAT is what counts. :)

Illegitimi Non Carborundum...Vinegar Joe Stillwell and Barry Goldwater