The Elite Media/Celebrity View From Inside the Liberal Bubble
From a Media Research Center article, Best Notable Quotables of 2005:
Introduction [/] Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2005 (December 2004 through November 2005). To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category.
[…] Quote of the Year [/] Reporter Brian Ross: "Mary Mapes was the woman behind the scenes, the producer who researched, wrote and put together Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes report on President Bush’s National Guard service, a report which Rather and CBS would later apologize for airing...."
Ross to Mapes: "Do you still think that story was true?"
Ex-CBS producer Mary Mapes: "The story? Absolutely."[…] Runner-up: [/] Ted Turner: "I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There’s really no reason for them to cheat [on nukes]....I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. You know, just because somebody’s done something wrong in the past doesn’t mean they can’t do right in the future or the present. That happens all the, all the time."
[…] Slam Uncle Sam Award [/] Andrea Mitchell: "It is an iconic picture: American hostages, hands bound and blindfolded, being paraded outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran by their captors. But has one of those student radicals now become Iran’s newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?...Tonight, U.S. intelligence officials say that they will continue to study this, but may never have definitive proof of what the role was of Iran’s new president, Brian."
Brian Williams: "Andrea, what would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called terrorists at the time by the British Crown, after all." [/] Mitchell: "Indeed, Brian."[…] Madness of King George Award for Bush Bashing [/] "It’s like he [President Bush] stuck a broomstick in his [FDR’s] wheelchair wheels." [/] — Newsweek’s Jon Meacham on MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning May 9, discussing Bush’s criticism of Roosevelt’s Yalta deal with Stalin on post-war Europe.
[…] The Kanye West "George Bush Doesn’t Care About Wet People" Award "The dilatory performance of George Bush during the past week has been outrageous. Almost as unbelievable as Katrina itself is the fact that the leader of the free world has been outshone by the elected leaders of a region renowned for governmental ineptitude....The populism of Huey Long was financially corrupt, but when it came to the welfare of people, it was caring. The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts." [/] — Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, September 1.
[…] "God Save This Court from Extremists" Award [/] "An Advocate for the Right." [/] — Headline over a New York Times "news analysis" of Judge John Roberts’ judicial philosophy, July 28. [/] vs. [/] "Balanced Jurist at Home in the Middle." [/] — Headline over a June 27, 1993 New York Times story on Supreme Court nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[…] #### Those Conservatives Award [/] "The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for President, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar." [/] — Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas, as quoted in the "Under the Dome" column by Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour in The Hill newspaper, July 28.
[…] Captain Dan the Forgery Man Award [/] Dan Rather: "My principal problem was that I stuck by the [Memogate] story, I stuck by our people for too long. I’m guilty of that. I believed in the story, and the facts of the story were correct. One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To this day no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not....You know, I didn’t give up on my people, our people. I didn’t and I won’t." [Applause]
Marvin Kalb: "Dan, thank you. You said, I believe you just said, that you think the story is accurate." [/] Rather: "The story is accurate."[…] What Liberal Media? Award [/] "I’m going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that’s interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that’s interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don’t have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." [/] — Bill Moyers, who retired in December 2004 from the PBS show Now, as quoted by AP television writer Frazier Moore in a December 10, 2004 dispatch.
[…] "Baghdad Bob" Was Correct Award [/] Co-host Mike Jerrick: "What do you think’s going to happen Sunday?"
FNC reporter Steve Harrigan, just back from Iraq: "I think there’s going to be a bloodbath on Sunday....All over the place, especially in Baghdad and a few other cities." [/] — FNC’s Fox & Friends, January 28, two days before Iraq’s largely peaceful elections.Runners-up: [/] "I’m Bob Schieffer. It just keeps getting worse in Iraq. The death toll is rising. Tension is growing between Shiites and Sunnis. Is the country sliding toward civil war?" [/] — Schieffer beginning the May 19 CBS Evening News. […] [My ellipses and emphasis]
Check all the top quotes out.
Do not miss: Crazy Chris Award for Chris Matthews’ Left-Wing Lunacy; Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity; Media Millionaires for Smaller Paychecks Award; Good Morning Morons Award; Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis; Oh, That Liberal Media Award; and the Media Hero Award.
