MRC Gala/DisHonors Awards
Talk about goofy morning show hype. On the February 8, 2008 Good Morning America, ABC’s Sam Champion teased an upcoming segment: “Now to our series…
MSNBC co-anchor Chris Matthews won the MRC’s “Media Messiah Award” for declaring during coverage of the February 12, 2008 Democratic primaries that…
DisHonors Awards of 2009: 'Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis' Nominee Justin Webb
In an April 30, 2008 report for BBC World, correspondent Justin Webb ridiculously hyped the size of American cars. Standing next to an 18-wheel big…
Following Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gushed: “Not a sour note and spellbinding throughout.” His co-anchor…
DisHonors Awards of 2009: 'Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis' Nominee Chris Cuomo
In a December 20, 2007 interview with Barack Obama, ABC’s Chris Cuomo asked Obama this loaded question: “What do you think the bigger obstacle is for…
CNN founder Ted Turner won the MRC’s award for “Stupidest Analysis” for ludicrously declaring on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 1, 2008, that not fighting…
To CNN’s David Gergen, Obama’s August 28, 2008 speech to the Democratic convention was “less a speech than a symphony....a masterpiece.”
A nominee…
On CNN’s Larry King Live back on September 9, 2008, ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar attacked Palin as ‘very mean to animals....Why does she have it…
ABC’s Bill Weir won the MRC’s “Obamagasm Award” for his over-the-top fawning on World News on Inauguration Day. “Can national pride make a freezing…
HBO’s Bill Maher won MRC’s “Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin” for pushing a crazy conspiracy on his Sept. 5, 2008 Real Time. “I’m not that…
After Palin joined the Republican ticket, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman scoffed that she took the experience issue off the table for the GOP. “Sarah…
ABC’s David Wright rolled two Democratic mythologies into one story, declaring on the January 28, 2008 World News that the Kennedys’ endorsement of…