Notable Quotables

Obama Can't Make Nice With Bloodthirsty Republicans

rich.noyes — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:36:45 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 10

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Obama Can’t Make Nice with Bloodthirsty Republicans

First Impulse: Blame the "Right Wing" and Hope the Bomber Is a "White American"

rich.noyes — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:47:37 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 9

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First Impulse: Blame “Right Wing” for Boston Bombings

Thrashing Thatcher, the Brutal "Antithesis of Freedom;" MSNBC: Kids Belong to the Collective

rich.noyes — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:35:19 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 8

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Thrashing Thatcher: The Brutal “Antithesis of Freedom”

“This was the Prime Minister that decimated entire industries in the United Kingdom during her period in power, as she broke the miners’ unions in a push towards privatization to create a more flexible British economy, which it has become. But she decimated communities across the UK, and a lot of people absolutely despise her legacy.”

April Fools Notable Quotables: Special Matthews Mega-Meltdown Edition

rich.noyes — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:51:54 +0000

April Fools Day Edition

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Updated: See Which Quotes Were Real and Which Were Fake

Gushing Over the "Perfect" Barack Obama

Blame "Painful and Stupid" Budget Cuts on Extremists Holding the GOP "Hostage"

rich.noyes — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:43:44 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 6

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Blame Budget Impasse on Extremists Holding GOP “Hostage”

Journalists Adopt Obama's Sequester Hysteria

rich.noyes — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:02:10 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 5

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As Predicted, Journalists Adopt Obama’s Panicky Hype

Host Chris Wallace: “The White House has already put out — there’s going to be kids, thousands of kids thrown out of Head Start; we won’t have food safety inspectors to make sure our food is safe — you know, all kinds of dire things.... They are saying we will make it hurt.”

Taking a Sip of Water = The End of Marco Rubio?

rich.noyes — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:11:52 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 4

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Taking a Sip of Water = the End of Marco Rubio?

Celebrating "the Second Coming" of Barack Obama

rich.noyes — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:11:44 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 3

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Obama’s Best Route to Greatness: “Destroy the GOP”

The Media vs. the "Gun Lobby," Like "Defeating the Nazis" or Fighting Southern Segregationists

rich.noyes — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:14:01 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 2

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Taking on “the Gun Lobby” Like “Defeating the Nazis”

Hey, Tea Party: "It's Not Your Country Anymore;" Blaming Egregiously "Extreme" Conservatives

rich.noyes — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:40:43 +0000

Vol. 26, No. 1

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Hey, Tea Party: “It’s Not Your Country Anymore”

Year End Awards: The Best Notable Quotables of 2012

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The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

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The Obamagasm Award

The "Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste" Award for Exploiting Tragedy to Promote Liberalism

The Sandra Fluke Award for Promoting Obama's Phony “War on Women”

The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges

The Politics of Personal Destruction Award for Ripping Romney

Damn Those Conservatives Award

Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews

The True But False Award for Fatuous Fact Checking

The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award for Burying Obama’s Benghazi Scandal

The Media Hero Award

The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year

MSNBC = Mean-Spirited, Nasty, Belligerent Chris Award

Good Morning Morons Award

The Denying the Obvious Award for Refusing to Acknowledge Liberal Bias

The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

Quote of the Year

2012 NQ Judges

Media Coverage

In addition to discussions on numerous radio talk shows where hosts cited quotes or interviewed MRC representatives, the Best of NQ Awards issue has been highlighted by these outlets:

Television:

FNC's Hannity on December 17 played several clips with MRC President Brent Bozell as a guest to offer comment. Video
FNC's Fox NewsWatch on December 29 highlighted the winners in two categories. Video

Print:

Washington Examiner, "Washington Secrets" by Paul Bedard on December 18: "Mainstream scream of year: MSNBC Harris-Perry host slaps July 4th"
Washington Times, "Inside the Beltway" by Jennifer Harper on December 18: "Eternal Gas Bag"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, column by L. Brent Bozell III on December 23: "Media’s most notorious quotes for 2012"
Denver Post, column by Mike Rosen on December 27: "Another year of liberal media bias"
Waterbury (CT) Republican-American, January 1, 2013 editorial: "Chronicles of Bias XXV"

Online:

World magazine, by Marvin Olasky on November 30: "Silver anniversary of bias watching"
World magazine, by Marvin Olasky on December 1: "Getting it wrong"
The American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer December 4 on Spectator.org: "Poisoned Pens, Poisoned Lenses: The Establishment media’s sickness unto death"
Watchdog.org, by Patrick B. McGuigan on December 17: "Notable Quotables analysis documents legacy media bias"
PowerLine blog, by John Hinderaker on December 17: "Most Outrageous Reporting of 2012"

Quote of the Year

Melissa Harris-Perry

“The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class….This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

— MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry on her eponymous July 1 program, delivering what she called “my footnote for the Fourth of July.”[MP3 Audio]

Quote of the Year runners-up

Welcome to the Media Research Center's annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2012 (December 2011 through November 2012).

To determine this year's winners, a panel of 46 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to seven quotes in each category [List of Judges]. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed alongside each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a "Quote of the Year" denoting the most outrageous quote of 2012.

The MRC's Michelle Humphrey distributed the ballots and tabulated the results. Senior news analyst Scott Whitlock helped produce the numerous audio and video clips included in the Web-posted version. Rich Noyes and Brent Baker assembled this issue and Brad Ash posted the entire package to the MRC's Web site.

Go to first award

Featured Award Categories

Keep us in the Fight!

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Online Picks for Worst Media Bias of 2012

Watch and read even more liberal bias in the MRC's "public ballot." Results were announced on December 14.

Download Results

A printable Adobe Acrobat PDF of the "Best of NQ" awards issue is included here for your convenience.

For the all the text in one document, download the MS Word or WordPerfect versions.

Best of NQ Archive

First Award

Winners of the Best Notable Quotables of 2012 "Public Ballot"

admin — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:34:46 +0000

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

Your Picks for the Worst Quotes Revealed

Every year a panel of leading conservative media observers and experts picks the most-biased media quotes for the Media Research Center's annual awards for the year's "worst reporting." And these judges have done so again this year to decide the 2012 award "winners" with the choices to be announced on Monday, December 17, but…

This year we let our fans and all concerned about liberal media bias also participate via this separately compiled Web ballot. More than 5,000 MRC.org and NewsBusters.org visitors took part.

From December 10 to 13, Web visitors could review quotes in 10 categories to pick one quote – the one they considered most outrageous in the category.

Now you can see which quotes were judged the "worst" of the year in this online ballot.

On the MRC's NewsBusters blog, discuss the quotes — what you think of those that won and whether the correct ones were picked in this online ballot.

See the Winners!

• Fed up with the liberal media? Donate to the MRC and help make possible our work ridiculing left-wing "journalists."

• Check the official results from last year:
The Best Notable Quotables of 2011
The 24th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

• See the winners of the public ballot for 2011.

The Media vs. Anti-Tax Hike Conservatives

rich.noyes — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Vol. 25, No. 25

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“Unelected” Norquist Condemned by Unelected Journalists

Journalists Demand Liberal Action from Obama; Opposing Susan Rice = More Evidence Republicans Are Racist

rich.noyes — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:21:16 +0000

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Republicans Need to "Shed" Conservative "Orthodoxy"

rich.noyes — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:37:00 +0000

Vol. 25, No. 23

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Republicans Need to “Shed” Conservative “Orthodoxy”

“The [Republican] party has got to find a way to reach out to Latinos, the fastest growing voting bloc, to become a more diverse party with the ability to shed some of the orthodoxy around taxes, around spending, over the role of government, and this process is going to begin this morning, the soul-searching and redefinition.”