THE BRIAN STELTER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR WORST QUOTE OF THE YEAR:

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and declared a winner.

This year the winner is Don Lemon!

The CNN host won for his laugh-out-loud response to CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s silly inquiry that “you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore” under new CNN CEO Chris Licht’s leadership. To which Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”  

And for once, he’s right! Certainly by the traditional, laissez-faire definition of liberal before the term was stolen by “Progressives” in the 1920s. But if pressed, how would LeMon define CNN’s ideology? Socialist? Statist? Corporatist?  The network has a penchant for doxxing its viewers, and has run odes to North Korea, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Hezbollah, so totalitarian is also an option.