WORST OF 2021: The GOP Wants to Bring Back Jim Crow Award

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 on December 15 announced The Chris Cuomo Memorial Award in Quote of Year.  

Each year, there are too many biases for one category. Baker was accompanied by NewsBusters’ editors in breaking down the Worst of Twenty-One into seven categories. 

We present today the WORST OF 2021: Jim Crow Award Wanted by The GOP 

The winner is announced (followed closely by the top runners up)  

WINNER

There’s a “Through-Line of Hate” From Tulsa Massacre to GOP Killers “Today”

“Here we are on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the deadliest attack on black Americans on U.S. soil….And at the same time that we condemn this as obscene, as a reminder of what is wrong, we see in real time today one of the greatest assaults on democracy under way once again targeting minorities. Trump’s party is intensifying efforts to deny people of color their right to vote. It was the boldest effort since Jim Crow. President Biden drew a through line in Tulsa today….A through-line of hate. A through line means just because there’s not another Tulsa massacre doesn’t mean the efforts are not equally unholy and un-American?”
— Host Chris Cuomo on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, June 1.

Here is the montage below of runners-ups and winners:

RUNNERS-UP

Jim Crow’s “Comeback” 

“Jim Crow is making a comeback, the fictional black-faced character from minstrel shows who came to symbolize second class citizenship for millions of Americans. Jim Crow also refers to the unequal racial separation rules that barred black people from staying at white-owned establishments, eating in white-owned bars, or participating fully in the election process. Now, as hundreds of new proposals to scale back voter participation in elections make their way through state legislatures, the parallels with the past are inescapable.”
— Reporter Joe Johns on CNN TonightMarch 31, 2001

Racist Republicans “Do Not Believe That Everyone Is Created Equal”

“Not everyone is created equal is the first commandment of white supremacy. Republicans believe not everyone is created equal. That is why Republican legislators believe they can restrict black Americans’ right to vote. Republicans believe that not all voters have the same rights. Republicans believe that Republican voters are better people than Democratic voters.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, June 1.

“Conservative” Justices “Working” Against “Democracy”

“All six conservative Republican-appointed justices uniting to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona that would disproportionately affect voters of color. And that’s because making it harder for people to vote, particularly people of color and young people, is the thing that the conservative movement is animated right now. It’s what they are radicalizing on….It’s because they and all other parts of the right are working in tandem against America’s multiracial democracy.”
— Host Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All InJuly 1,