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…
Don Lemon!
The former CNN anchor won with 49 percent of the vote. He nabbed first place with his attack on President Donald Trump’s supporters as he declared that “hatred and bigotry” is what makes the “MAGA wheel spin.”
This is the second time Lemon earned Worst Media Take of the Week. Back in March, Lemon spewed that you can’t “be black” and be “MAGA.”
Former Washington Post columnist/New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz came in a close second with 48 percent of the vote. Boston Globe opinion editor Kimberly Atkins Stohr finished dead last at 3 percent.
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (49 percent of the vote)
Don Lemon: “Hatred and Bigotry” Is What Makes the “MAGA Wheel Spin”
“There’s a reason that there’s so much hate going around. There’s a reason that there’s so much anti-Semitism and so much racism going around….You can place it at the feet of one person [Donald Trump] who didn’t start this but certainly exacerbates it and foments hate and bigotry…. The racism. The bigotry. The anti-Semitism. The transphobia. The homophobia. It certainly does happen on one side more than the other….That’s the thing that makes the MAGA wheel spin. That’s the motor. That’s the axle. Is hatred and bigotry.”
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon discussing arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion as aired on his podcast The Don Lemon Show, April 14.
SECOND PLACE (48 percent of the vote)
Women Love CEO Killer Because a “Morally Good Man” is “Hard to Find”
“So you’re going to see women, especially that feel like, ‘Oh, my god, right. Like, here’s this man [CEO killer Luigi Menagione] who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person that seems this like this morally good man,’ which is hard to find.”
— Former Washington Post columnist/New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz to correspondent Donie O’Sullivan on CNN’s Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, April 13.
THIRD PLACE (3 percent of the vote)
Democrats Should be “Shouting from the Mountain Tops” About Trump “Autocracy”
“I know Democrats get a lot of heat from Republicans about being too alarmist and talk about democracy being in peril too much. If we are in the position like we were in the 1930s, do you think talking about that too much is a problem? A collapsed economy is an open door to autocracy and that is what Democrats should be shouting from the mountain tops.”
— Boston Globe opinion editor Kimberly Atkins Stohr on NBC’s Meet the Press, April 13.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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