MRC DisHonors Awards and Gala

Literary agent and blog site (Lucianne.com) proprietor Lucianne Goldberg, who was a friend to the Media Research Center, passed away Wednesday (Oct. 26) at age 87. She took the stage at our DisHonors Awards in 2002, accepting an award, in jest, on behalf of Helen Thomas. For many years, she generously served as a judge for the MRC’s annual “Best of Notable Quotables: Awards for the Year’s…

Wednesday night during the Media Research Center’s 35th anniversary gala, we were honored to present our friend, legendary conservative columnist, TV commentator, and longtime MRC Gala attendee Cal Thomas with the first annual Bulldog Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Author and leading neoconservative intellectual Midge Decter passed away on Monday, May 9, at age 94. At the Media Research Center’s “2005 DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2004,” Decter accepted in jest, on behalf of Janeane Garofalo, the “I’m Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award.”

Wednesday brought the sad news that conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh has passed away after a battle with stage four cancer. We at the Media Research Center were fortunate enough to have him attend three of our galas, including the MRC’s 30th anniversary in 2017. Introducing him, founder and President Brent Bozell praised, “Rush has been at our side from the very start, giving oxygen to…

Sad news came Thursday morning of the passing of Herman Cain. In 2007, Cain presented “funny clips” at the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2006.”