POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?

August 6th, 2026 1:53 PM

POLL: What was the worst media quote of the week? (Vote below)

 

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Lawrence O’Donnell: Dr. Anthony Fauci Hearing Was a “Stalinist Tribunal” 

[Clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions. Thank you.”]
Host Lawrence O’Donnell: “And that led Rand Paul to turn his hearing room into the most disgraceful Stalinist tribunal the United States Senate has ever seen.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell after playing a clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci on MS NOW’s The Last Word, July 29.

 

Rosie O’Donnell Sings Anti-Trump Song 

“His approval rate is 30. His diaper’s always dirty, I think the guy’s insane. He ain’t no stable genius. Got a teeny tiny penis and he doesn’t have a brain.”
— Comedian Rosie O’Donnell singing an anti-Trump parody song (to the tune of If I Only Had a Brain) as aired on the On with Kara Swisher podcast, August 3. 

 

DL Hughley: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “Putting Christians to Shame”

“How is this a campaign promise and this is socialism? You can say whatever you want to say but this Muslim [Mayor Zohran Mamdani] is putting Christians to shame. He is. I’m not a religious man. ….There is more to say for a man that lifts the poor, that feeds the hungry, that employs the people who are unemployable, that walks among the people, than powerful white men who consort with a pedophile. Who’s the more Christlike?”
— Comedian DL Hughley on the Uncertain with DL Hughley podcast, August 3. 

 

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