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…
Joy Behar!
The ABC’s The View co-host won with a whopping 69 percent of the vote! Behar took first place for asserting that once President Donald Trump puts his name on prescription drugs, “we’re all going to die!” MS NOW host Katy Tur came in second place with 25 percent. Finishing last was Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host Jon Stewart with 6 percent.
Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:
Watch the Worst Quotes from @KatyTurNBC, @JoyVBehar and @jonstewart pic.twitter.com/gZyt5rRi21
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 21, 2026
WINNER (69 percent of the vote)
Joy Behar: Once Trump Puts His Name on Prescription Drugs, “We’re All Going to Die!”
“Once Trump puts his name on prescriptions, we’re all gonna die! Okay? He put his name on the Trump shuttle, the Trump vodka, the Trump University, the Trump hotel and my favorite, the casinos that all went bankrupt.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, May 19.
SECOND PLACE (25 percent of the vote)
Clueless Katy Tur: Is Mike Johnson “Putting God Over the Declaration of Independence?”
“What about this passage from [Speaker of the House] Mike Johnson declaring that ‘our rights do not derive from government, they come from you, our creator and heavenly father?’ Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?”
— Host Katy Tur to The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins on MS NOW’s Katy Tur Reports, May 18.
THIRD PLACE (6 percent of the vote)
Jon Stewart Hoping for the “Electorate” to Repudiate “Putrid” Trump Administration
“Oh, people, close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration – the day that that happens. My brother, my brother, there will be – and I mean this. The day that that happens, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of [Viktor] Orban look like an Amish Sabbath.”
— Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, May 19.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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