It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors, led by MRC President David 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 2025 and on December 17 announced The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year.
Of course, every year, there is way too much bias for just one category. So we broke down the Worst of 2025 into five additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The ICE Breakers Award for Hating Trump’s Deportation Policy; and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).
Today, we present the WORST OF 2025: The ICE Breakers Award for Bashing Deportations.
WINNER
“We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We are normalizing, we’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign….Everybody who says, ‘Oh this is not the America I know,’ I can guarantee you it is the America I know.”
— Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross on CNN’s NewsNight, July 8.
RUNNERS-UP
“If they [Trump administration] could snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us. To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color and vulnerable communities that are next in line.”
— Host Symone Sanders on MSNBC’s The Weekend, April 19.
“I posted about the fact that there are little Anne Franks, right? Anne Frank in Chicago – her name is Anita Franco, and she is terrified.”
— NPR’s Latino USA anchor Maria Hinojosa on MSNBC’s The Weekend, September 20.
“On the issue of immigration, there are a lot of people who are appalled by what the administration is doing. And there will be times for civil disobedience….Let’s say she [Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan] did escort this guy out the door. If federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that is two things. One, it strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic.”
— New York Times columnist/PBS contributor David Brooks on PBS’s News Hour, April 29.
