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 Carrying Kamala’s Water Award for Helping Harris.
Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):
WINNER
“We spent three weeks sitting outside the ICU with a death watch for democracy watching what would happen after that debate if Donald Trump were able to get back in the White House and it was terrifying….Then suddenly a crack open of hope. One little heartbeat of hope. Kamala Harris raising her hand and saying ‘I’ll take care of this,’ and you saw an explosion of support and energy.”
— Contributor Van Jones on CNN Newsroom, July 23.
RUNNERS-UP
“Let’s not forget that, you know, the idea of women, now we have a woman at the top of the ticket, and women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice. The binary choice is democracy or Trump, and for women, it’s our lives or Trump. And Kamala Harris embodies the future of this country, embodies freedom in this country now, and Donald Trump and MAGA embody regression and trying to turn things back.”
— Former CNN commentator/ABC News contributor Tara Setmayer on MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports, August 2.
“It was a speech of progressive politics and unifying rhetoric. A speech with many, many shots across the bow of Donald Trump, her opponent. And a speech in which she sought to portray herself as a credible commander-in-chief, patriotic, firm, confident, and credible….It was a remarkable address, one that I’ve never seen her give quite like this before. A very, very powerful speech. You gotta go back, I think, to Barack Obama in 2008 for a Democratic speech like this, perhaps even a speech like this at all.”
— Host Jake Tapper on CNN’s live coverage of night four of the Democratic National Convention, August 22.
“I’m Hallie Jackson, live at the home of the Chicago Bulls! And if Vice President Harris hopes to be the new political Michael Jordan for Democrats, tonight we’re gonna hear from the guy you could call her Scottie Pippen.”
— Correspondent Hallie Jackson on NBC News Now’s live coverage of the night three of the Democratic National Convention, August 21.
Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl: “If you take out the section on abortion rights, much of this speech could have been delivered at a Republican convention, a Republican convention before Trump. This is a Kamala Harris that sounded a little bit more like Maggie Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, especially on national security, than like Bernie Sanders.”...
Co-host George Stephanopoulos: “There was more talk about Ronald Reagan at the Democratic convention than Republican convention.”
— ABC’s Good Morning America, August 23.
