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…
Lesley Stahl!
The longtime 60 Minutes correspondent won with a decisive 76 percent of the vote! Comedian Amber Ruffin came in second with 16 percent. Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward came in last place with 10 percent of the vote.
Stahl won for suggesting Hamas wasn’t intentionally starving captured Israelis. She actually asked former hostage Keith Siegel: “Do you think they starved you or they just didn’t have food?”
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (76 percent of the vote)
Stahl to Hostage: Are You Sure Terrorists Were Starving You, Maybe Hamas Just Ran Out of Food?
Former hostage Keith Siegel: “The terrorists became very mean and very cruel and violent.”
Correspondent Lesley Stahl: “More so?”
Siegel: “Much more so. They were beating me and starving me.”
Stahl: “Do you think they starved you or they just didn’t have food?”
Siegel: “No I think they starved me and they, they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.”
— CBS’s 60 Minutes, March 30.
SECOND PLACE (16 percent of the vote)
Comedian Amber Ruffin: Trumpers Aren’t “Human Beings”
“You’re [Trump administration] kind of a bunch of murderers….They [the White House Correspondents Association] were like: ‘You need to be, you know, equal, and make sure that the, that you give it to both sides, and blah blah blah.’ I was like, ‘there’s no way I’m gonna be freaking doing that, dude.’...They want that false equivalency that the media does. They want that. It feels great. It makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way ‘cause they’re not.”
— Comedian Amber Ruffin before she was disinvited from performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as aired on The Daily Beast podcast, March 27.
THIRD PLACE (10 percent of the vote)
Woodward: “One of the Most Dangerous Times” Ever, Trump Wants to “Destroy the Economy”
“He [Donald Trump] and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, his sidekick are cutting the government….I think it’s one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced….His end goal – it looks like – he wants to destroy the economy and that is a very dangerous undertaking.”
— Associate Editor Bob Woodward on the Washington Post podcast, March 28.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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