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 you in becoming president, the Clinton campaign machine, or America’s inherent racism?”
A nominee for the "Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
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 global warming “will be catastrophic....Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”
A nominee for the "Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
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 in for these poor polar bears and the caribou, and she aerial kills wolves? That’s a very mean thing to do.”
A nominee for the "Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
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 convinced that’s her baby,” Maher declared of Palin’s son, Trig. “It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else.”
A nominee for the "Obamagasm Award" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
After Palin joined the Republican ticket, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman scoffed that she took the experience issue off the table for the GOP. “Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams. I mean, it’s just no contest,” he declared on MSNBC’s Countdown, August 29, 2008.
A nominee for the "Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
On the October 14, 2008 Hardball, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews derided the idea that Sarah Palin is a powerful female politician in the mode of Hillary Clinton: “The comparison between her and Hillary Clinton is the difference between an igloo and the Empire State Building.”
A nominee for the "Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin" at the MRC's 2009 DisHonors Awards and gala.
CNN'a John Roberts, Joe the Plumber and Media Bias
