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…
Don Lemon!
The former CNN anchor won with 55 percent of the vote. Coming in second with 29 percent of the vote was ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin. MSNBC’s Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace finished in a distant third place with 16 percent.
Lemon (a back-to-back winner of our annual Worst Quote of the Year award) took first place with his insult of black supporters of President Donald Trump, as he charged: “I don’t think that you can be….black and be a rational MAGA person.”
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (55 percent of the vote)
Don Lemon: You Cannot “Be Black” and Be “MAGA”
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon: “I see a black MAGA person who is carrying Donald Trump’s water and they know that he’s lying, it is the shortest line to the front….If you become a black MAGA person, it’s like, ‘Whoa, let’s book this person. Let’s put him on television. Let’s promote!’”
Host Bill Maher: “So you don’t think you can be a sincere black MAGA person?”...
Lemon: “I don’t think that you can be a rational MAGA — be black and be a rational MAGA person. I think you can be black and be a Republican.”
Maher: “I think they would find that very insulting.”
Lemon: “Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting.”
— Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, March 16.
SECOND PLACE (29 percent of the vote)
Sunny Shames Schumer From the Left
“It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you’re playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away….In supporting that GOP partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin to Sen. Chuck Schumer on ABC’s The View, March 18.
THIRD PLACE (16 percent of the vote)
Nicolle Wallace: “Is a Constitutional Crisis Now Officially Upon Us?”
“The question of the hour: Is a Constitutional crisis now officially upon us? From the invocation of an 18th century law that was the basis for some of the darkest chapters in America’s history — things like the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II now being used to deport hundreds of people, to the sudden removal of an immigrant doctor here legally….A series of developments over the last 48 hours point to a Trump administration acting as though it is now unencumbered by the law.”
— Host Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, March 17.
Thanks again to all who participated!
Support provided by James P. Jimirro
