We’ve got a new, fun interactive series 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…

Joy Reid!

Burnett won crushed the competition with 76 percent of the vote! The former MSNBC host took first place for accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of rounding up “brown people” to put in his “concentration camp.” The Nation’s Elie Mystal finished in second place with 16 percent of the vote. ABC’s The View’s Sunny Hostin finished in third place with 8 percent. 

The following is a montage of all the nominees: 

WINNER (76 percent of the vote)

Joy Reid: Ron DeSantis Is Rounding Up “Brown People” To Put In His “Concentration Camp”

“We tried to forget about him, but Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida. He took the Comfy Couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he’s building in Florida in order to round up people, brown people, and throw them in a camp because he doesn’t want them in Florida.”
— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on The Joy Reid Show podcast, June 28. 

SECOND PLACE (16 percent of the vote)

Elie Mystal: America Needs to Be Sanctioned, “We Are the Bad Guys” 

“Our country needs to be sanctioned, we are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere….We have to be stopped through the same kind of means that we have that our country and others have used to rebuke a North Korea or a China or name a rogue state. We are the rogue state.”
— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on The Joy Reid Show podcast, July 2.

THIRD PLACE (8 percent of the vote)

Sunny Hostin: “Like Many Dictators” Trump Wants “State-Sponsored Television”

“I think he [Donald Trump] is much more comfortable — like many dictators and many authoritarians — with state-sponsored television….I’ve actually been to Russia, you watch television, you watch television in mainland China, you can’t trust what you’re hearing. And I think he is much more comfortable in that kind of space.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 26.

Thanks again to all who participated! 

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