We’ve got a brand new, fun interactive series for the new year called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.
Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).
The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is…
Elie Mystal!
The Nation’s justice correspondent ran away from the competition with 63.5 percent of the vote. MSNBC host Katie Phang came in second place with 19.7 percent of the vote. Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell finished last with 16.8 percent. Mystal crushed the competition with the following attack on President Donald Trump and all the “white folks” who voted for him:
WINNER (63.5 percent of the vote)
You Voted for Trump and Eggs Are Still Expensive, “Great Job White Folks!”
“I wrote specifically about this issue — what he [Donald Trump] was going to do to the Department of Justice.…A majority of white people voted for this. This is the disgusting version of America that people want, and, oh, by the way, eggs are still more expensive. So you didn’t even get that. Great job, white folks.”
—The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on MSNBC’s Velshi, January 25.
SECOND PLACE (19.7 percent of the vote)
MSNBC’s Measuring Scale for Trump
“On a fascism scale of one to ten with ten being peak fascism, how would you rate Trump’s first week?”
— Substitute host Katie Phang to Democratic strategist James Carville on MSNBC’s The Beat, January 24.
THIRD PLACE (16.8 percent of the vote)
I’m Not Saying Elon Is a Nazi But…
“The first time that Elon Musk decides to declare that globalist Jews are responsible for the Great Replacement of brown people into the United States, maybe it was a misunderstanding. You know? The second time he said that ‘Jews are pushing hatred against white people,’ that’s a quote, you know, that was a little iffy. By the second Sieg Heil, I think he kind of loses the benefit of the doubt to be not accused of playing footsie with these Nazis. I’m not saying he’s a Nazi, I’m saying the Nazis think he’s a Nazi.”
— Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell on CNN Newsnight with Abby Phillip, January 27.
The following is a montage of last week’s nominees:
Thanks again to all who participated!
