It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, which included NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoffrey Dickens and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner.
This year the winner is Joe Scarborough!
The MSNBC host won for his truly laugh-out-loud March 6 take that the 2024 “version” of President Joe Biden was “intellectually, analytically” the “best Biden ever.”
MRC President L.Brent Bozell announced: “Back in March when it was apparent to everybody that Joe Biden was losing it, here comes Joe Scarborough to not only reject those claims but boldly boast that Biden was quote ‘intellectually’ and ‘analytically’ the sharpest he’s ever been. Four months later his own party dumped him. In a media landscape full of Biden excuse-makers, Scarborough’s sycophancy stood out.”
This makes the Morning Joe co-host a back-to-back winner of Worst Quote of the Year! In 2023 he won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump won re-election he would “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents.
Without further ado, here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):
WINNER
“Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 6 rejecting claims Biden was slipping mentally.
FIRST RUNNER-UP
“He [Joe Biden] will be remembered as a great President. He will be mentioned in the same sentence as George Washington.”
— Long-time Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter on NBC’s Morning News NOW, July 22.
SECOND RUNNER-UP
“It [bloodbath comment] scared me, honestly, you know? I didn’t think ever in my lifetime I would see that….He [Donald Trump] is using that kind of World War II rhetoric that led to the deaths of six — the murders of 6 million people.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 18.
THIRD RUNNER-UP
“There is an entire right wing media ecosystem that doesn’t exist on the left and it does not exist in the center or mainstream.”
— PBS News Hour White House correspondent/CNN analyst Laura Barron-Lopez on CNN’s Inside Politics, November 7.
