Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Derek Hunter Show last night to break down the media’s most outrageous quotes of the year as part of the MRC’s annual Worst Quote of the Year award, which spotlights the most egregious or biased statements in the media.
For the third runner-up, Bozell discussed Sunny Hostin of The View, who claimed that criticizing Stephen Colbert—one of late night’s highest-paid hosts—was “the dismantling of our democracy” and that attacking comedians meant “our constitution is being dismantled.” Bozell called it a classic example of liberal exaggeration: the country is “going to hell in a handbasket because we dared criticize the comedian for losing $40 million a year and not being funny.”
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The second runner-up came from Elie Mystal of The Nation, who called the U.S. Constitution “a piece of crap” during an appearance on The Breakfast Club podcast. Bozell fired back: “I would respectfully suggest that our friend Elie, if he loves the South African Constitution so much, then go move there and just deprive us of all of your sage wisdom and advice here in America, that’s in his words, ‘a piece of crap.’”
And for the top honor, Bozell highlighted Matthew Dowd, formerly of MSNBC, who, in the immediate aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, speculated that the killing could have been the result of “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration” and drew an apparent link between what he described as “hateful thoughts,” “hateful words,” and subsequent “hateful actions. Bozell: “MSNBC did the right thing, believe it or not, and fired him right there on the spot. So it just goes to show you how egregious that comment really was in the moment.”
Readers can watch all of the clips for themselves in MRC’s full Worst Quote of the Year breakdown here.