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 Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:53 pm Post subject: Media Research Center Dishonor Awards |
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http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/05/welcome.asp
Visit page to see nominees and winners
| Quote: | Cal Thomas, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Neal Boortz, Zell Miller and T. Boone Pickens highlighted the presentations and acceptances of MRC’s “2005 DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2004,” which were presented on Thursday night, April 21, before an audience of more than 950 -- the MRC’s largest crowd ever -- packed into the Grand Ballroom of the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C.
Following the presentation of the DisHonors Awards videos in five categories, a look at the Best of the Worst of Dan Rather and the audience picking the Quote of the Year, we presented a 12-minute video tribute to the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth. MRC President L. Brent Bozell then honored a founder of the group, John O’Neill, with the MRC’s Conservative of the Year Award.
DisHonors Awards winners were selected by a distinguished panel of 16 leading media observers, including Rush Limbaugh, who served as judges.
Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist and host of FNC's After Hours with Cal Thomas, served as Master of Ceremonies. Sean Hannity, co-host of FNC’s Hannity & Colmes and a national radio talk show host, was the first presenter of nominee videos and announcement of the winner, followed by author Ann Coulter and then Atlanta-based nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz.
In place of the journalist who won each award, a conservative accepted it in jest. Those standing in for the winners: Colin McNickle of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the target of Teresa Heinz Kerry’s “shove it” remark; renowned businessman T. Boone Pickens; national radio talk show host Janet Parshall; Midge Decter, author and conservative intellectual; and former U.S. Senator Zell Miller.
The evening began with welcoming remarks from Cal Thomas, an invocation by Reverend Vincent Rigdon and the Pledge of Allegiance led by MRC Trustee Dick Eckburg.
After the second award category, we paid tribute to Reed Irvine, the founder of Accuracy in Media who passed away last year, and then Ann Coulter narrated a video review of Dan Rather’s worst bias. Later, Cal Thomas urged the audience to put Peter Jennings in their prayers. To introduce acceptor Colin McNickle, attendees watched videos of Teresa Heinz Kerry’s “shove it” attack of him and, leading into Zell Miller, attendees were treated to video of the Miller/Chris Matthews “duel” exchange from MSNBC’s Republican convention coverage. |
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Another bit of coverage from B&C.....
| Quote: | MRC's Dishonorable Discharges
By John Eggerton
4/22/2005
Broadcasting & Cable
Brent Bozell's Conservative Media Research Center gave out its "Dishonor Awards" for liberal bias in the media Thursday night in Washington, D.C., with CBS coming up big.
MRC's mission is to document and advertise the "strident liberal bias" of the mainstream media.
"Quote of the Year" went to CBS anchor Dan Rather for the now-famous National Guard story defense, while Conservative of the Year" went to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth founder John O'Neill.
Other Dishonors went to:
Former CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite--the (rather harsh) "REALLY Time to Retire Award"--for Cronkite's suggestion that Bush strategist Karl Rove "probably set up" Ossama bin Laden to release that threatening videotape to "tilt the election a bit."
Bill Moyers--the (curiously named) "Send Bush to Abu Ghraib Award"--for an exchange with a nun that ended with Moyers' comment: “Somebody said to me the other day that Americans don’t behead, but we do drop smart bombs that do it for us.”
CNN's Bruce Morton--the "Al Franken Award for Stupidest Analysis"--for the comment (made, to be fair and balanced, on Jan. 30 of 2004): “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.”
Activist/comic Janeane Garofolo--the "I’m Not a Political Genius But I Play One on TV Award"--for the comment on Innauguration Night 2005: "George W. Bush is Unelectable."
CBS' Byron Pitts--the "John Kerry Suck-Up Award"--for this comment during Kerry's convention speech: “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.”
Various high-profile conservatives served as stand-ins for the awardees, including former Democrat turned Bush cheerleader Zell Miller, and Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens. Judges included Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Robert Novak and Cal Thomas.
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