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, X, and Truth Social).
The results of the Worst Media Quote of the Week are in, and the winner is…
Stephanie Ruhle!
The MS NOW host won with 42 percent of the vote! Ruhle won for actually blaming the riots in France on President Donald Trump. The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker came in second place with 35 percent. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann finished in third place with 23 percent.
Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:
Watch the quotes from @SRuhle, @AshleyRParker, and @KeithOlbermann
Video by @Schineman pic.twitter.com/nU5j3G4QVL— MRC Video (@mrcvideo) October 22, 2026
WINNER (42 percent of the vote)
Stephanie Ruhle Blames the Riots in France on Trump
“The President is also using fear-mongering around the riots in France to motivate voters. Right? He said in the last 24 hours, without any evidence, that migrants, jihadists, and communists are the ones responsible for these riots. But we have to remember, the riots started, of course, over school conditions, but it’s also over high prices. And you can draw a direct link to the high prices in Europe, to President Trump’s war in Iran.”
— Host Stephanie Ruhle on MS NOW’s Money, Power, Politics, October 20.
SECOND PLACE (35 percent of the vote)
Ashley Parker Speculates ICE Agents Might Shoot At Citizens with “Brown Skin” Trying to Vote
“Talking to Democrats, they’re terrified. ‘Are ICE officials going to show up at the polls?’ You know, we don’t know what's going to happen….Even just the talk of ICE officials showing up at the polls, coupled with the arrests and some of the killings that is happening with ICE officials, can have a chilling effect of a legal citizen who has brown skin saying, ‘You know what, it’s not worth it for me, right? I’m not going to take time off of my job to show up and maybe get hassled by ICE and get shot in a parking lot when I’m a citizen.”
— The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, October 16.
THIRD PLACE (23 percent of the vote)
Keith Olbermann: Trump Is a “Russian-Owned Mass Murderer”
“Trump is owned by Russia….He line-item vetoed virtually all of the provisions of the sanctions on buying Russian oil that happen to apply to Russia. It is abject corruption. It is aiding an enemy at the time of war. It has resulted and will result in the death of Ukrainians, and it increases the chance of a European war in which this country will be involved and in which Americans will die. Maybe thousands of us, maybe more; their deaths will be Donald Trump’s fault. Adding to his resume as a mass murderer, a Russian-owned mass murderer.”
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, October 19.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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