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Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:07:49 PM
Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a
compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes
from 2009 (December 2008 through November 2009).
To determine this year’s winners, a panel
of 48 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial
writers, and media observers each selected their choices for the first,
second and third best quote from a slate of five to eight quotes in
each category. First place selections were awarded three points, second
place choices two points, with one point for the third place
selections. Point totals are listed in the brackets at the end of the
attribution for each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a “Quote of the Year” denoting the most outrageous quote of 2009.
Quote of the Year
Melissa Lafsky
“Mary
Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign
slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or
what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most
successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo
Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have
thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.
Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
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Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky, who formerly worked on the
New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, writing at the Huffington Post, August 27.
There's more crazy and disturbing quotes:
http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2009/