Winning Quotes in MRC's Annual Awards for the Worst Reporting (Must Read! HILARIOUS!!!)

Media Research Center ^ | December 29, 2003

[freekitty]

Love the lettuce roll.

[steve8714]

She has lived through all of Mesopotamian history.

[Petronski]

I thought Cronkite was dead. Oh well, I'll guess I'll have to switch back my plans from pissing on his grave to spitting in his face.

[Petronski]

Preschoolers come here [to the food bank] with their parents and play in boxes as empty as the day’s want ads.

Wholly crap! Did Scott Pelley of CBS really say that?

[exile]

"This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.”
-- Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas at a Society for Professional Journalism banquet, as quoted by the Torrance, California Daily Breeze’s John Bogert in a January 19 story. [80 points]"

That mad old cow would know. She's been around for most of them.

[exile]

"“We are about to show you bread lines in America that you may find hard to believe. With the recession there has been a sudden leap in the number of people on emergency food assistance. The lines we found looked like they’d been taken from the pages of the Great Depression. It’s not just the unemployed. We found plenty of people working full-time, but still not able to earn enough to keep hunger out of the house. If you think you have a good idea of who’s hungry in America today, come join the line. You’d never guess who you’d meet there....Almost half the people fed by these lines are kids. The Agriculture Department figures one out of six children in America faces hunger; that’s more than 12 million kids. Nationwide, children have the highest poverty rate. Preschoolers come here with their parents and play in boxes as empty as the day’s want ads.”
-- CBS’s Scott Pelley’s report from a food line in Marietta, Ohio, on the January 8 60 Minutes II. [74 points] "

Then why are poor people in this country so damn fat?

[Oatka]

Then why are poor people in this country so damn fat?

I think it was during the Nixon-Kennedy campaign that Kennedy came up with, "In America tonight, thousands of people will go to bed hungry."

Nixon replied, "Yeah, because they're on diets". The resulting laughter killed Kennedy's one-liner COLD.

[Ophiucus]

This is the part that killed me:

Nationwide, children have the highest poverty rate

How many freaking children does he expect earn $100,000 a year commuting to the office and back? How many kids pull $20-25 grand with paper routes and lemonade stands?

They're children for crying out loud!!!! Freaking children!!! Of course they are poor - they don't have full time jobs because they are children!!!!

/rant

[Political Junkie Too]

Jennings: ...and some of the most creative people in the Arab world have always been Iraqis.

Yeah, creative in the ways of torturing and murdering people.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

“This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.”
-- Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas

I love comments like this. This ranks with Robert Redford saying of Bush's energy bill: "This is the worst energy bill I have ever seen in my entire life."

And the Left calls people EXTREMISTS? Can you get more extreme than calling someone the worst president ever, the worst bill ever? And then they go and trash Bush's nominees, who go to Congress and give reasonable, moderate responses to the Senate committees.

So, who's being extreme here?

-PJ

[hershey]

On Meet the Press yesterday, Laura Bush and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg were co-guests. In the segment I saw, Laura was asked most of the questions, and she responded in a ladylike, adult, poised manner, but didn't look at Caroline once. When the camera drew back, Caroline's face came on camera several times while Laura was speaking. Caroline looked at her with no expression. No smile. Then she'd realize she was on camera and quickly would paste an insincere smile on her face. The one comment she made was to blather on (in response to a softball question by Russert linking Jackie's comment about the importance of raising children), that yes, raising her three kids and taking care of her husband so they'd have a happy family was the most important thing in her world. No mention of the scores of nannies and servants who help out. And while we're on the subject of Caroline -- she's needed braces for years. Doesn't she ever look in the mirror? She has an overbite a beaver would envy, and her upper front teeth are hideously crooked. When she smiles, her upper lip sticks to the bottom of her slightly hooked nose, showing a good two, three inches of gumline. It's very unfortunate. End of rant. I feel better now.

[Becki]

She has lived through all of Mesopotamian history.

Snort!!

Becki