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The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year
News Busters ^ | December 15th, 2022 9:45 AM | Geoffrey Dickens

Posted on 12/15/2022 9:39:24 AM PST by Red Badger

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 2022 and declared a winner.

This year the winner is Don Lemon!

The CNN host won for his laugh-out-loud response to CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s silly inquiry that “you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore” under new CNN CEO Chris Licht’s leadership. To which Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”

MRC President L.Brent Bozell announced: “The notion that CNN was never ‘liberal’ was so ridiculous on its face that it even caught lefty late-night host Stephen Colbert by surprise. It’s even more absurd coming from the man who has spent his CNN career attacking conservatives and advancing the left’s agenda.”

This is the second year in a row Lemon has won the Worst Quote of the Year award. Last year he took home the award for asserting: “If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. That’s the crowd that you are in.”

Lemon has also compared the Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests to the Boston Tea Party and once declared “the biggest terror threat in America is white men.” Lemon was demoted to the mornings this year after leading CNN’s ratings slide into the toilet. Which is fitting when you remember he made up 33 of their 195 s***hole mentions back in 2018.

Without further ado, here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):

WINNER: VIDEO AT LINK............

Host Stephen Colbert: “The word on the street is you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore? Is that the case?” CNN host Don Lemon: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.” Colbert: “What?” Lemon: “Yes, I don’t think we ever were liberal.” — CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, November 28.

The following is a montage of the runners-up and winner:

VIDEO AT LINK...................

RUNNERS-UP

“We could be six days away from losing our rule of law….A historian will say what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.”

— MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, November 2.

“[Supreme Court Justice Samuel] Alito’s fundamental legal reasoning is that abortion is not a fundamental right….and he’s right about that. The Founding Fathers didn’t recognize abortion as a fundamental right because the Founding Fathers were racist misogynist jerk faces who didn’t believe that women had any rights at all!”

— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, May 3.

“CNN is one of the stations….of all the television broadcast networks and cable channels it pushed harder from 2016 to 2020 against Trump and it was part of the firewall that I think has saved democracy this far, under Jeff Zucker.”

— Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik on CNN’s Reliable Sources, February 6.

VIDEO AT LINK...................


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Government; History
KEYWORDS: brianstelter; clintonnonnews; cnn; hunterbiden

1 posted on 12/15/2022 9:39:24 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

some good news

cable cutters are cutting into LEFTIST media profits

and streaming is not making up the shortfall


2 posted on 12/15/2022 10:41:14 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Red Badger

‘Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”’

Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think

Enough said


3 posted on 12/15/2022 10:41:30 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: joshua c

Streaming is a passing fad...................


4 posted on 12/15/2022 10:42:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
the Founding Fathers were racist misogynist jerk faces who didn't believe that women had any rights at all!”

Funny but.... the Bill of Rights applied to all free adults male and female.

You would think Elie Mystal, being such a scholar would know that. As would any third grader.

5 posted on 12/15/2022 10:43:01 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Red Badger

Technically he is correct. CNN was way beyond classical liberalism to Socialist leftism.


6 posted on 12/16/2022 8:31:02 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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