It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.
Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2024 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; Carrying Kamala’s Water Award for Helping Harris; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).
Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Trashing Trump Award.
Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):
WINNER
“Americans have to make a choice. We have to, essentially, choose between freedom and democracy, or worldwide slavery and dictatorship. Any other year, that would be an overstatement.”
— MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss on MSNBC’s The Weekend, March 3.
RUNNERS-UP
“We are naive to think he is tricking people into picking him and then surprise he’s gonna act like a dictator. What he is offering is strongman leadership, the end of politics, the end of elections.”
— MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Inside with Jen Psaki, January 22.
“[Donald Trump] has the worst character of any man who has held the office of the presidency, full stop. Nobody else is even close. Richard Nixon isn’t even close….He’s just a despicable, cruel, lying person….I’m having my own American reckoning in trying to come to terms with how this country, which was founded on the idea of not just freedom and democracy, but basic decency — how we could be in this place where we have this man who lacks all of the most elemental qualities of character that the founders knew were important if we were going to have a successful republic….You can’t not do something to keep this man from coming back to office. He’s that evil, and I use that word very intentionally….This guy is a sick F.”
— MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter on MSNBC Reports, October 25.
“Depending what happens in November — seven months from right now — this time next year, I might not be sitting here. There might not be a White House Correspondents Dinner or a free press. While our democracy won’t exactly fall apart immediately without it, the real threat looms larger. A candidate with outward disdain not just for a free press but for all of our freedoms and the rule of law itself.”
— Host Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, April 29.
