The Chris Cuomo Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2021 and declared a winner(s.)

We had a tie this year. Two quotes illustrate the stark double standard in Trump and President Joe Biden’s coverage. The following three months were his most productive. broadcast evening newscastsJoe Biden was flooded with 59% of positive press. These same programs targeted Trump four years back with 89% of negative press. 

The bias was so strong at CNN they produced not one but two contenders who earned the dubious honor of worst quote of the year, which we’re calling The Chris Cuomo Memorial Prize for Worst Quotes of The Year

MRC President L.Brent Bozell announced: “This explains why CNN is now unwelcome even in airports. CNN is to news what Cuomo was to integrity.”

Here are the winners, followed by the top runners up:   

WINNERS

 

 

“If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted in support of Nazis. You voted in the name of the alt-right advocate. That’s the crowd that you are in.”
— Host Don Lemon on CNN Tonight with Don LemonJanuary 14 

 

 

“Those lights that are, that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool….It’s like almost extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America. It was a moment where the new President came to town and sort of convened the country in this moment of remembrance, outstretching his arms.”
— CNN Political Director David Chalian during CNN’s Inauguration coverage, January 19.

 

Here is a list of winners and runners up:

 

 

RUNNERS-UP

“January 6th was worse than 9/11.”
— Former ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd on MSNBC’s ReidOutJuly 6,

“Why would you [Republicans]Bring back some of the worst laws that have suppressed the black vote since Jim Crow. What do you need to enjoy a pleasant activity? Google ‘Jim Crow Laws’ in states where they existed and compare them to the language, phraseology, and the intention of what’s sold in over 40 states right now, some 250 plus bills. Take a look and be shocked at the similarity….This is becoming some kind of perverse holy war for you guys.”
— Host Chris Cuomo on CNN’s Cuomo Prime TimeFebruary 15.

“Limbaugh reached millions of listeners via his golden microphone….hardening rural white listeners and weaponizing white male grievance….A guy who took white Americans out there in the hinterlands and fed them a narrative of….‘You’re the victim. The black people, the brown people, the women, the feminazis, they’re taking it from you. They’re taking things from you.’… He called President Obama, ‘Barack the Magic Negro,’ and used his black sidekick as a cover to be able to do that outright racist stuff.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s ReidOutFebruary 17 Rush Limbaugh’s song parody mocked liberal Los Angeles Times columnist David Ehrenstein’s March 19, 2007 column “Obama the ‘Magic Negro.’”

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