WORST OF 2021: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe 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 to Quote of the Year.  

Each year, there are too many biases for one category. Baker led a group of NewsBusters editors who broke down the Worst of 20201 into seven other categories: The Damn Those Conservatives Award, The GOP Wants to Bring Back Jim Crow Award; The Joy of Hate Award For Joy Reid Rants; The Media Heroes Award; The Media Heroes Award; The Craziest Analy Award and The Celebrity Freak-Outs Award. 

Today, we are presenting the WORST OF 2020: The Praising Old Joe Award. 

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

WINNER

Biden’s “Beautiful” Moment, Maybe the Dead “Can Rest Now” 

“Just listening to the words and the song and seeing the lights, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Harris pulled the grief and regret out of the privacy of our hearts, if just for a moment, so that we all could share it….What a first step. What a beautiful step….I’m reminded of the Psalmist, you know? ‘He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.’ Maybe the dead will speak to us now. Maybe they can rest now.”
— MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude during live coverage, January 19.

Below is a list of winners and runners up:

RUNNERS-UP

Hailing “Brave” Biden’s “Extremely Good” Effort in Afghanistan “Unbelievable Yeoman’s Work”

“I actually have lauded the President from the very beginning about Afghanistan. It was a terrible situation that he had to deal with. And as of today, he’s done an extremely good job in the situation….What he’s done over the course of the last week, should be congratulated on the way this was done….I think the President has done unbelievable yeoman’s work.”
— Former ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFrontAugust 24, 2003

Hyping Biden’s Lame Legacy

“Bill Clinton used to say that a President’s lucky to get a sentence. Lincoln saved the Union. FDR won the Depression, and Lincoln was able to save the Union. Biden’s well on the way to writing his sentence here. This [infrastructure funding bill]This is a major investment in our country. It will rank, I think, with what President Eisenhower was doing in the 1950s.” 
— Presidential historian and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham on MSNBC’s The BeatNovember 15.

How Do You “Resolve” Being Such a “Moral, Decent Man?” 

“You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country, right now. This isn’t the time to come. This message is not being accepted. Instead the perception of you — that got you elected — as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors. How do you resolve that tension?”
— PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor to Joe Biden at press conference, March 25.

Most “Impactful First Year” Since “Reagan”

Host Erica Hill: “We can’t ignore the historical significance here. This is a huge accomplishment! [Senate passage of massive infrastructure spending bill] for President Biden at this point in his first year?” 
Correspondent John Avlon: “Huge, and I think that’s the way to think about this. What are the historical comps if any to this?…I don’t think any Democratic president has had a more impactful first year legislatively since LBJ. In terms of any president, I think you’ve got to go back to Reagan’s first year where he was able to pass with bipartisan margins, a budget plan that changed the trajectory of American politics in fundamental ways. This is a huge win.”
— CNN NewsroomAugust 11,

Best “Diplomatic Trip” of the “Century,” Biden Assembled the “Avengers”

Joe Scarborough is the host: “I’ve been going back through my mind….maybe you can come up with a better week in American diplomacy overseas, over the past 20 years of the 21st century? I’ve been trying to figure it out, over the past 12 hours. I can’t think of a more successful diplomatic trip in the 21st century than this one….It ain’t nothing to get the United States of America and the EU on the same page….When we’re getting that team together….that’s calling the Avengers together. It’s pretty damn good.”…  
BBC World News America Katty Kay is Washington’s anchor “Biden rallied his posse.” 
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, June 17.