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Best of 2010: "Epic" Pelosi, "Super" Kagan, and the Thrill that Never Goes Away

By Rich Noyes | January 01, 2011 | 12:11

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As scornful as the media were of conservatives last year, they were just as adoring of top liberals, as documented by the MRC's Best Notable Quotables of 2010. Topping the MRC's annual "Media Hero Award," ABC's World News anchor Diane Sawyer fawned over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the passage of ObamaCare in March:

“All agree she gets credit for locking up this vote, one of the biggest since Medicare in the 1960s. And she’s said to have done it with an epic blend of persuasion, muscle and will, even when half the town said it couldn’t be done....Their indefatigable, unwavering almost 70-year-old Speaker, mother of five, grandmother of seven....[to Pelosi] What do you think your dad and your mom would have said about this moment?”

The newest addition to Sawyer's ABC family, longtime CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour, likewise gushed to Pelosi on her debut edition of This Week back on August 1: “You, by all accounts, are one of the most, if not the most, powerful and successful Speakers in the history of the United States. You’ve passed so much legislation....And yet, now, people are talking about you might lose your majority in the House. The gap seems to be growing wider between what’s achieved and what’s making an impact with the people. How did this happen?”

Winning the "Supremely Slanted Award for Elevating Elena Kagan," NPR's Justice correspondent Nina Totenberg cast the just-nominated Kagan as a super-hero for her supposedly incredible exploits running Harvard's law school. With the theme music of the old 1950s Superman TV series running the background, Totenberg enthused: "Kagan, who can raise money by the millions! Kagan, who can end the faculty wars over hiring! Kagan, who won the hearts of students!" (Audio here.)

SuperKagan.jpgNearly as gooey, ABC Supreme Court correspondent (and Nightline co-anchor) Terry Moran was giddy about Kagan's first day on the bench: "She was confident and well prepared and fluent and probing. At one point she asked a question of one of the lawyers that frankly seemed to stump them a little bit. A quiet kind of came over the courtroom as he gathered his thoughts. And you could almost sense or imagine some of the other justices and veteran court watchers kind of looking down the bench at Justice Kagan like a major league scout might say, 'You know, that kid's got some real pop on her fastball.'"

But the most fawned-over liberal in 2010 remained Barack Obama. Runner-up in the MRC's "Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery," Time editor Rick Stengel went out of his way to include flattery of Obama in his new book about Nelson Mandela: "The parallels are many....And while it took 27 years in prison to mold the Nelson Mandela we know, the 48-year-old American President seems to have achieved a Mandela-like temperament without the long years of sacrifice....Whatever Mandela may or may not think of the new American President, Obama is in many ways his true successor on the world stage.”

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The Washington Post's Michael Leahy and Juliet Eilperin detoured from an otherwise critical story about Obama's policy on offshore drilling to bow before the Dear Leader's intellect: "The moment was vintage Obama — emphasizing his zest for inquiry, his personal involvement, his willingness to make the tough call, his search for middle ground. If an Obama brand exists, it is his image as a probing, cerebral President conducting an exhaustive analysis of the issues so that the best ideas can emerge, and triumph.”

But winning this category, and the dubious honor of MRC's Quote of the Year, was MSNBC's Chris Matthews reprising a quote that made him a butt of jokes two years ago. Listening to a clip of Obama makign a speech, Matthews again blurted: “I get the same thrill up my leg, all over me, every time I hear those words. I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that’s me. He’s talking about my country and nobody does it better."

For the full "Best Notable Quotables of 2010: The 23rd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting," visit www.MRC.org or click here to download the full-color, nicely-formatted 23-page PDF.

 

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2009-2010 simply mindboggling and stunning!

Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:51pm.

Our "media" is simply unbelievable, as we finish a two year stretch with--
10% unemployment
3.4 trillion in new federal debt
fighting a conventional land war in the "graveyard of empires" at huge cost and casualties
the massive unfunded mandate that is Obamacare

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what else needs to be said?????  A real media would be edgy and snarky with
THE party in clearcut power, but obviously we long ago lost any pretense of objective media.
Our country will default, it is only a matter of when.......
 

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Uh hoh my god....

Submitted by NeoKong on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:56pm.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.  Who the hell are they speaking to....?    Does anyone believe the crap they spew ?   I'm a conservative guy I guess and naturally I admire and support all of our big players on the right.  However I could never watch someone get all gushy over a conservative as if they were some sort of demi-god who blesses our lives with their very presence because that would be creepy.   That's the word I think that best describes that sort of unqualified praise.    Creepy.   It sort of make me feel the same way I did when school teachers were leading children in songs about Barack Obama during the campaign or when there were people pledging themselves to him like it was Jonestown.

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Obama's quote, that Matthews

Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 2:32pm.

Obama's quote, that Matthews was gushing over was pure B as in B, S as in S.

And most of all, they gave me hope. Hope, hope that in America, no dream is beyond our grasp if we reach for it, and fight for it, and work for it.”

I don't think Obama believes a word of that.  He believes that no one should have more than anyone else, no matter how hard they work for it.  Because working hard for it and fighting for it means they pushed others out of the way.

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Loaded Question

Submitted by IrateNate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 3:45pm.

....[to Pelosi] What do you think your dad and your mom would have said about this moment?”

The obvious answer?  next time, use two condoms...

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ASTOUNDING!

Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 7:06pm.

I can not in my wildest dreams begin to answer the question "What are these people thinking?"

You can lead a liberal to logic but you can't make them think.
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Big assumption on your part, Cy...

Submitted by Clutch1956 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 7:31pm.

I would never assume to think that these people are 'thinking', they are overcome with their precious FEELINGS and IDOL WORSHIP to engage their gray matter.

(One of the greatest life lessons ever given to me was by an old manager of mine that told me he didn't get a rat's @ss about what I FELT on the subject but what I THOUGHT about it; I was taken aback at first and a touch hurt ("how dare he not care about how I feel?!?") but then the intellectual part of my brain engaged itself and I have never since then put my feeling first when thought is what matters. Wait, i think I just identified the problem with liberals, they have no intellectual part of their brains, just a mushy mass o' FEELINGS.)

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Brand Obama?

Submitted by Clutch1956 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 7:22pm.

If there is an automotive equivalent of the Obama brand, it would have to be the 1980's Yugo brand. Or the East German Trabant. (Kinda interesting that both of those are from behind the old Iron Curtain, eh wot?)

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Clutch1956, How about the, "2012 Pelosi GTxi

Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 8:41pm.

SS/RT Sport Edition"

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