At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for the “Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award.”
“The Center of [sic] Budget and Policy Priorities says, you’re smiling because you know about this, says 62 percent of the savings in your budget would come from cutting programs for the poor, that between eight and ten million people would be kicked off of food stamps, that you would cut Medicare by $200 billion, Medicaid and other health programs by something like $770 billion. Where is the empathy in this budget?... Do you acknowledge that poor people will suffer under this budget, that you have shown a lack of empathy to poor people in this budget?”
— Co-host Ann Curry to U.S. Representative Paul Ryan on NBC’s Today, April 10, 2012.