MRC Awards for idiots in the media

So the media Research Center has come out with their awards for ridiculous quotes for 2009. There are 16 separate categories.

1. The Messiah Coronation Award for Fawning Inaugural Coverage
2. Master of His Domain Award for Obama Puffery
3. The Crush Rush Award for Loathing Limbaugh
4. Damn Those Conservatives Award
5. The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble
6. Spread the Wealth Award for Socialist Sermonizing
7. Long Live Camelot Award for Lionizing Ted Kennedy
8. The Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
9. The Un-Fairness Doctrine Award for Slamming Media Conservatives
10. Let Us Fluff Your Pillow Award for Obsequious Obama Interviews
11. Big Brain Award for Journalists Bedazzled by Obama’s Brilliance
12. The Audacity of Dopes Award for Wackiest Analysis of the Year
13. The Obamagasm Award for Seeing Coolness In Everything Obama
14. Michelle, the Media Belle Award
15. Media Hero Award
16. The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity

The overall winner was a jourrrrnalist who suggested the Mary-Jo Kopechne would think it was worth losing her life so that Ted Kennedy could "help" us all. Ha ha, yeah.

“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.”

— 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.

Here's one in the category for vapid celebrity stupidity ... and it didn't even win the category.

Ahhh, Lily, if only it were true ... but never mind the actual truth, right Lily?

You can click the link at the top for the rest of them.  Of course you probably already know about the pack of braying jackasses who call themselves "objective jourrrrnalists" but it's fun nevertheless.

Ah, screw it, here's one more for your entertainment ... under the category "Media Heros." It didn't win either. I left the winners out for the suspense and anticipation factor.

Yes, the "Godfather of Green ... the King of Conservation ... the Luberupper of Labia.'" Can't you just feel her little clit a-tinglin'?