Best Notable Quotables: Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting
Each year, the Media Research Center compiles the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from the preceding year, as determined by a panel of leading media observers (radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, and editorial writers). The year-end edition features video and text for the winners and top runners-up in a variety of categories, such as the “Damn Those Conservatives Award,” “The Tea Party Terrorists Award,” “The Obamagasm Award,” “The Audacity of Dopes Award for the Wackiest Analysis of the Year,” along with the “Quote of the Year.”
Quote of the Year for 2015: Melissa Harris-Perry
Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles: “If there’s somebody who is a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan....”
Host Melissa Harris-Perry: “I want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker,’ because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like. So, I feel you that he’s a hard worker, I do, but in the context of relative privilege.”
—Exchange on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, October 24