POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!

Geoffrey Dickens
February 17th, 2026 4:02 PM

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It’s time to find out who had the Worst Media Quote of the Week. This interactive series is where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media quote 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 Quote of the Week are in and the winner is…

Jimmy Kimmel!

The ABC late-night talk show host with 66 percent of the vote. Kimmel took first place for claiming that Republicans are protecting “pedophiles” and “rapists,” while attacking illegals who are “raising your children.” Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker came in second place with 20 percent. Finishing last was former CNN anchor Don Lemon at 14 percent. 

Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:  

 

 

WINNER (66 percent of the vote)

 

Jimmy Kimmel: Republicans Are Protecting “Pedophiles” and “Rapists,” While Attacking Illegals Who Are “Raising Your Children”

Rep. Lisa McClain: “And you know what the Democrats want to do? Let’s release them into your communities. And let’s celebrate the criminals. Let’s villainize the ICE agents and celebrate the people who are raping your children.”
Host Jimmy Kimmel: “I think she meant to say raising your children? I mean, listen, could you imagine how ignorant these people are screaming about pedophiles and rapists while members of their own party seem to be doing everything they can to protect the pedophiles and the rapists in the Epstein files.”
— ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, February 10.

 

SECOND PLACE (20 percent of the vote)

 

Kathleen Parker: Trump Has “Taken a Page” from Hitler’s Mein Kampf

“He’s [Donald Trump] still clinging again to the 2020 — we know it was a fully regular election he lost. And he can’t let it go because I think he’s taken a page from Mein Kampf, frankly, you know, the saying that if you say — tell a big lie often enough and repeat it, then people will believe it.”
— Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker on PBS’s News Hour, February 6.

 

THIRD PLACE (14 percent of the vote)

 

Don Lemon: “Our Democracy Can Be Gone In a Second” Under Trump 

“We are watching an administration right now that treats the Constitution not as a covenant but as an inconvenience. That they don’t have to abide by. ‘This is inconvenient and this is getting in our way.’ It’s authoritarianism and we need to be careful because the very little that’s left in our democracy can be gone in a second – if it’s not too late already.”
— Former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s speech at the Human Rights Campaign dinner, February 7.

 

Thanks again to all who participated! 

 

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