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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 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.
Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2024 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; Carrying Kamala’s Water Award for Helping Harris; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).
Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Damn Those Conservatives Award.
Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):
WINNER
“The thing that unites them [Donald Trump supporters] as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way — because Christian nationalists is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans as all human beings don’t come from any earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, they don’t come from the Supreme Court, they come from God.”
— Politico’s democracy investigator Heidi Przybyla on MSNBC’s All In, February 22.
RUNNERS-UP
“I saw the people up in New Hampshire, the poorest white people in the world. I mean the rags on their books. They look like East Germans coming out of East Berlin back in the eighties. They were waiting for Trump for two hours and they believe everything he says. And they had this notion that the family, the flag, the country, this really primitive notion of what they care about. Religion. Everything. He’s tying into that. He’s saying ‘I’m your savior.’”
— Former MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 28.
“By the way out there, that hat that you keep wearing — that red hat that says Make America Great Again, that tells people that you go along with this so might as well put a swastika on the hat.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, May 21.
“He’s [Donald Trump] an instinctive, impulsive, intuitive nationalist. J.D. Vance is an ideological nationalist. That’s a much more dangerous virus because he can….polish this stuff and make it seem palatable to people. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley. He can sell this stuff to other places….It locks the Republican Party on a pathway that I think is dangerous for the world….This pick is a horror on the world stage.”
— Contributor Van Jones on night one of the CNN’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention, July 15.
“I was mystified by what was going on. And now I can’t help but think that if this election seems to be — if it proves out that the millions of people who are watching Fox News, if that ends up being the case, then I can’t help but wonder if the American people have given up on democracy.”
— Washington Post Associate Editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS’s live election coverage, November 6.