Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
“Her [Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson] credentials frankly sounded as if Mount Olympus decided to choose and give her each of the credentials and gave this great — almost a legal deity of sorts.”— CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates on CNN Newsroom, February 25, 2022.
Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
Montage for the Damn Those Conservatives Award 2022
Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
“It’s always said, this was the most important election in our history. Well, it’s pretty close to it. And I would say to our friends, who are watching us today: vote as if your life depends on it. Because it might.”— MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschlsoss on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, August 14, 2022. 
Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
“For history, I think it’s a pretty big deal. You know, if you add up those seven pieces of legislation, it’s a $3.5 trillion agenda that Biden and the Democrats have passed since early last year. There’s really nothing like that in terms of that scale. You have to go back to – depending on how you define these things – to LBJ. So, I think for history, Biden – I don’t think there’s much debate…
Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
“Justice Samuel Alito notes that some amicus briefs have argued that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the African-American population….Right. So, the man who helped gut voting rights, and uphold the jurisprudence of white racial innocence is now suddenly moved to protect black life. And of course he offers no context here, because while brevity may be the…
Geoffrey | December 25, 2022
“There was a time when people had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish and right-wingers were saying ‘get in the oven’ any time you made any benign comment on Twitter. They attacked women. You know, the misogyny was crazy on Twitter for a while. Elon Musk, I guess he — you know — misses the old South Africa in the ’80s. He wants that back.”— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The…
Geoffrey | December 15, 2022
“[Republicans] are only interested in power….and they will do anything to get the power. And they are willing to kill, literally kill, to get the power….this might be the last election we have…. in a democracy.” — Filmmaker Rob Reiner on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, November 4, 2022.
Geoffrey | December 15, 2022
Montage video for the winner and runner-ups of The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year.        
Geoffrey | December 14, 2022
  Host Stephen Colbert: “The word on the street is you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore? Is that the case?” CNN host Don Lemon: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.” Colbert: “What?” Lemon: “Yes, I don’t think we ever were liberal.” — CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, November 29, 2022.
Geoffrey | December 13, 2022
“CNN is one of the stations….of all the television broadcast networks and cable channels it pushed harder from 2016 to 2020 against Trump and it was part of the firewall that I think has saved democracy this far, under Jeff Zucker.”— Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik on CNN’s Reliable Sources, February 6, 2022.