The full program for the Media Research Center’s 2009 Gala Featuring the DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters, held on Thursday, March 19, 2009 in the Independence Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C.
Video includes Brit Hume's acceptance of the "William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence."
Alexandra Pelosi's HBO documentary, Right America: Feeling Wronged -- Some Voices from the Campaign Trail, certainly caricatured McCain-Palin voters as a bunch of redneck racists, but it also showed how conservatives see the media as the enemy, and featured a short clip of a fun Hank Williams Jr. song take-off against the “left wing liberal media.”
David Letterman asked guest Katie Couric about “this bonehead Rush Limbaugh.” He asserted Limbaugh's attire on Saturday at CPAC made him look “like an Eastern European gangster.”
Today (2/27/09) the 5,000 edition of Wheel of Fortune will air around the nation – which reminded me (always looking for a hook to plug our upcoming “DisHonors Awards”) -- that just under two years ago Wheel host Pat Sajak took part in our 2007 event where he accepted, on behalf of Rosie O'Donnell, the “I’m Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award.”
Diane Sawyer effused 2/16/09 World News: “I want to show everybody at home, because there is the President, it's Super Bowl night, and he's serving cookies to congressional leadership.” The narration switched to an awed George Stephanopoulos: “These are just remarkable, Diane. We've never really seen anything like this before in real time.”
At our March 18, 2004 gala http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/04/welcome.asp , as MRC President L. Brent Bozell III made closing remarks he was interrupted by Donaldson, who bound on stage in mock anger, railing at Bozell and the MRC for attacking on the news media. Donaldson pledged, “During this campaign we will treat both sides equally: the compassionate, intelligent…
Katie Couric giggled along with Nancy Pelosi while asking if she was “surprised how intimately involved” President Obama “is in the whole process?” And: "Can you tell us anything he said to you, like 'get cracking'?”
In Terry Moran's interview with President Barack Obama, ABC's Moran lamented Obama “got no honeymoon” and bemoaned the new President had been “too nice” to Republicans.
The L word on Showtime featured the “Unauthorized Abortion of W,” a sculpture of a woman's body with an exposed womb displaying George W. Bush's adult face with each of his hands holding onto a rocket labeled “U.S. Air Force.”
Brian Williams expressed his pleasure at seeing so many people “that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years, generations.”
