We’ve got a brand new, fun interactive series for the new year called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.
Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).
The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is…
Joe Scarborough!
The SiriusXM host won in a rout with 60 percent of the vote. ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar came in a distant second with 33 percent of the vote. NPR White House correspondent and ABC News contributor Asma Khalid came in last with 7 percent.
The co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe took first place with his claim that Elon Musk was “literally killing people across the globe.”
WINNER (60 percent of the vote)
Elon Musk “Literally Killing People Across the Globe”
“When are we going to finally see the lawsuits move on USAID and actually an injunction that stops that, all of those actions right now that are literally, unless the reports are exaggerated, literally killing people across the globe right now, this morning, this instant?”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 6.
SECOND PLACE (33 percent of the vote)
Joy Behar Wants to Re-Name America!
“This country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they name the country after an Italian white man, Amerigo Vespucci. That’s what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci. A white European. Why is it named after a white man, when it was settled by indigenous people?”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 13.
THIRD PLACE (25 percent of the vote)
Something “Very Strange” About “Richest Man” Slashing Programs
“This is the case….of the richest man in the world and there’s something very strange about him slashing programs that prevent starvation and hunger and poverty in much of the world.”
— NPR White House correspondent and ABC News contributor Asma Khalid on ABC’s This Week, February 9.
The following is a montage of last week’s nominees:
Thanks again to all who participated!
