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…
Rosie O’Donnell!
O’Donnell won with 42 percent of the vote. The comedian and former ABC’s The View co-host took first place for claiming the GOP is a “fascist” party that is supporting President Donald Trump’s “Gestapo.” Washington Post columnist/ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone finished in second place with 36 percent. ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin finished in third place with 22 percent.
The following is a montage of all the nominees:
WINNER (42 percent of the vote)
Rosie O’Donnell: GOP Is a “Fascist” Party That Supports Trump’s “Gestapo”
“I wonder if you are the GOP anymore, you know. You’re something different now. Burgeoning fascist America party. Almost fascist America party. Could be fascist America party. Or just the fascist America party, you know. What’s happening is not American. What’s happening with this Gestapo that he [Donald Trump] gets to go out, his own SS.”
— Comedian/actress Rosie O’Donnell on her TikTok feed, July 11.
SECOND PLACE (36 percent of the vote)
Kevin Blackistone: U.S. Isn’t “Fit to Host” World Cup Because Trump is “Trampling Human Rights”
“I, for one, don’t think that this country, under this administration, is really fit to host the World Cup or fit to host the Olympics coming up….FIFA has an entire section about human rights, and yet Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, had the nerve to embrace President Trump the other day at the championship game of the Club World Cup, someone who does not stand for human rights but instead is trampling human rights.”
— Washington Post columnist, ESPN commentator Kevin Blackistone on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, July 14.
THIRD PLACE (22 percent of the vote)
Sunny Hostin: Trump’s Distractions Are All Part of His Plan For a “Dictatorship”
“These things that seem to be a distraction. That he [Donald Trump] seems to be doing this and he seems to be doing that, he seems to be doing that. This is all part of a plan towards a step towards authoritarianism, towards a dictatorship, towards fascism.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 17.
Thanks again to all who participated!
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