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April 23, 2005
Media Research Center's Dishonor Awards
The Media Research Center's Dishonor Awards were held last Thursday in DC, in honor of the "most outrageously biased liberal reporters of 2004." Awards were based on selected quotes or pieces of dialog, which included some real gems:
"I have a feeling that it [bin Laden's new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."
— Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite on CNN's Larry King Live, October 29.
It looks like The Most Trusted Man in America has been wearing his tinfoil hat a little too tight!
Bill Moyers: "There have been 37,000 civilians killed in Iraq, or as many perhaps as 100,000. Why is abortion a higher moral issue with many American Christians than the invasion of Iraq and the loss of life there?"
Sister Joan Chittister: "Could I ask you that question? Because that is the moral question that brings me closest to tears. I do not understand that, Bill. You see, I'm absolutely certain that some of the people that we're killing over there are pregnant women. Now what do you do? Now what do you do? That's military abortion."
Moyers: "Somebody said to me — that's what?"
Chittister: "That's military abortion. Why is that morally acceptable?"
Moyers: "Somebody said to me the other day that Americans don't behead, but we do drop smart bombs that do it for us."
— November 12 exchange on PBS's Now.
Apparently anything is possible under the right set of circumstances — even liberals claiming to feel pity for aborted babies. It's certainly interesting to learn that in the grotesque alternate reality inhabited by Bill Moyers et al., dropping smart bombs on Uday's rape rooms and torture chambers is the moral equivalent of cutting children's heads off because their parents are Shia instead of Sunni.
"Veterans haven't been a big force in past campaigns... but the Vietnam vets may feel bound together more strongly....It may be too early to know how influential they'll be in Kerry's campaign, but they have already done one thing: If the Republicans had any hope of casting Kerry as some Michael Dukakis-style effete Eastern liberal, that's over. The band of brothers stands in its way."
— CNN's Bruce Morton on Inside Politics, January 30.
Tell it to the Swift Vets, Bruce!
Joe Scarborough: "Since George Bush got into public life, he's been underestimated by his opponents....Is that a part of an act that this guy does to lull Democrats into underestimating him, or do Democrats just put up really, really bad candidates against this guy every four years?"
Comic/liberal radio host Janeane Garofalo: "Well, I don't recognize that as a valid question. First of all, George W. Bush is a bad candidate. George W. Bush is unelectable, in my opinion. And secondly-"
Scarborough: "Well, why does he keep winning?"
Garofalo: "I don't know, voter fraud? A failed mainstream media that fails to inform the electorate about what their government is doing? Ignorance? Apathy? I don't know."
— MSNBC's Scarborough Country, January 20, 2005, the night of Bush's second inauguration.
I've got to agree with Janeane on one thing: ignorance does explain why the "unelectable" W keeps getting elected — her own ignorance.
And now for the biggest laugher in the lot:
"It was four years ago during the Democratic convention, not far from where we stand tonight, that John Kerry stood near his father on his deathbed. Earlier, as the family was preparing to leave John Kerry's home in Boston, I'm told he whispered to his sister, 'Remember the words of our mother on her deathbed when she said, 'John,' knowing he would run for President some day, 'remember, John, integrity, that's what matters.' Tonight, John Kerry tried to show that integrity."
— CBS's Byron Pitts during live coverage of John Kerry's speech to the Democratic convention, July 29.
These were just the winners; you could bust a gut on some of the runners-up too. Head over to Media Research Center to see the whole collection.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 23, 2005 12:25 PM