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 Cursing the Conservative Court Award.
Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):
WINNER
“The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.”
— March 4 X.com post by former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
RUNNERS-UP
Host Joy Reid: “Expanding the Court is starting to catch on even with people who originally opposed it because these guys [Republicans] have a political agenda….Ending women’s rights to an abortion, ending civil rights, just basically rolling back the entire 20th century Supreme Court jurisprudence. They’re doing it so systematically that they’re not stoppable if you don’t expand the Court.”...
The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal: “They are winning on the vibes and remaking the law back in their image of the 1950s and the 1850s.”
— MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 17.
“What they’re saying to the American people is that if ‘We get….our preferred president back, we’re going to encourage him to break the boundaries of the law….to feel free to even use violence, to use mass incarceration. Go ahead and do those camps.’...This is a clarion call to every American….Do not allow the person back into office who will use this power that he’s been given by this Court, this imperial Court, to implement that agenda….It doesn’t matter if Biden is old….What matters is that the other guy wants to be a king, and this Court has said ‘Yes, you are a king, and we are The King’s Hand. And together the seven of us will rule this country.’”
— MSNBC host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s Trump Immunity Ruling Special, July 1.
“It’s an insult to Motown to call it the Supreme Court….Basically it’s a harem, okay? It’s a harem, it’s Trump’s harem….The Supreme Court passed that ruling, you know, where they said you’re not the president, you’re the king, which is what that ruling is, you can do whatever you want, you can never be held responsible, I thought Joe Biden is still president, no one seems to notice, but Biden should dissolve the Supreme Court.”
— Author Fran Lebowitz on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, September 27.
Co-host Joy Behar: “The Supreme Court at the moment is so biased and so pro-theocracy….Somebody has to expose them because they are running around arrogant and they have the whole GOP on their side….They have no consequences whatsoever….They’re there for the rest of their lives.”
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “Why can’t we sue them in a class action suit?”
Behar: “I’m not sure you can do that. They’re the highest court.”
Goldberg: “Yeah but I don’t know why? Listen, I don’t know why you can’t pull a class action suit that says, ‘Listen, you are no longer doing the job you’re supposed to be doing.’ I don’t understand.”
— ABC’s The View, June 11.
