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 justice correspondent and MSNBC regular won with 67 percent of the vote. He took home the award for calling the U.S. Constitution a “piece of crap.”
This is the third time Mystal earned the Worst Media Take of the Week. He previously won for demanding an end to “all voter registration laws,” and mocking Donald Trump voters: “Eggs are still more expensive. So you didn’t even get that. Great job, white folks.”
MSNBC contributor/Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude came in second with 17 percent of the vote, just edging out ABC’s The View co-host Ana Navarro (16 percent).
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (67 percent of the vote)
Elie Mystal: U.S. Constitution Is a “Piece of Crap”
“When South Africa got over apartheid, did they just go back to their Afrikaner racist constitution…No! They threw the whole thing out and started again….and they came up with a new constitution. It’s one of the reasons why the South African constitution is generally thought of as one of the best constitutions in the world and ours continues to be a piece of crap.”
— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on the syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, April 3.
SECOND PLACE (17 percent of the vote)
Trump Voters Threw the “Republic Into the Trash”
“The choice that they’ve [Trump voters] made — we have to just be honest — is to literally throw the republic into the trash bin….We chose a felon who is more interested in loyalty, who’s more interested in retribution, who’s more interested in grift than in democracy. And we chose a felon because we didn’t want to elect a black woman….We would rather destroy the republic than for that to have happened.”
— MSNBC contributor/Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, April 7.
THIRD PLACE (16 percent of the vote)
Ana Navarro: Comatose Joe Biden Better Than Donald Trump
“I always said I would prefer - you know - Joe Biden in a coma, over Trump, and I maintain that.”
— Co-host Ana Navarro on ABC’s The View, April 4.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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