Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles: “If there’s somebody who is a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan....”
Host Melissa Harris-Perry: “I want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker,’ because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like. So, I feel you that he’s a hard worker, I do, but in the context of relative privilege.”
— Exchange on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, October 24, 2015.
At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 22, 2016 during the MRC’s annual gala, one of three nominees for the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis.” More on NewsBusters about the awards.