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!
ABC’s late-night talk show host ran away from the pack with 76 percent of the vote. Kimmel won for this sick joke: “Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Former MSNBC host Joy Reid came in second place with 20 percent. Finishing last was former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd at 4 percent.
Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:
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WINNER (76 percent of the vote)
Jimmy Kimmel: First Lady Has a “Glow Like an Expectant Widow”
“Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
— Host Jimmy Kimmel during a mock version of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, April 23.
SECOND PLACE (20 percent of the vote)
Joy Reid Suggests Assassination Attempt Was Staged
“Donald Trump is allegedly shot in the ear [in Butler, Pennsylvania], although no one’s ever shown us any medical records….There’s just odd things that keep happening around Trump. And we know that Viktor Orbán allegedly, allegedly, according to Washington Post’s reporting, there was a plot by the Russians to stage an assassination, fake assassination for Orbán….When something seems too perfect, people, they don’t – they don’t believe in it. And Donald Trump now again gets victimized by an alleged would-be assassin in front of the perfect witnesses – the press.”
— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on her podcast The Joy Reid Show, April 27.
THIRD PLACE (4 percent of the vote)
Chuck Todd Whines: I’m Not Going to Any More Trump Events, Chaos Follows Him
“I’m not going to any more events where Trump is at them. I don’t feel safe….Chaos follows him and you are less safe, right? If you decide to go into his orbit, you have become less safe.…He’s more likely to have you be the target of Iranian assassins….The guy doesn’t care when people commit violence in his name, he only cares when the violence is committed against him, and he does not see that he is a contributor to the atmospherics of the world we’re living in.”
— Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on the So What with Chris Cillizza? podcast, April 27.
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