[LANGUAGE WARNING] 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 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2024 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; Carrying Kamala’s Water Award for Helping Harris; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).  Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Celebrity Freak-Out Award. Without further ado here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):   WINNER “If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”— Oprah Winfrey at Kamala Harris rally, November 4.   RUNNERS-UP “Done. I’m done. I’m fucking seriously done. The Supreme Court has pissed me off so much right now. Like so much. Joe, you’re a reasonable man. You don’t want to do this. But here’s the reality: This is a fucking war. This is a war now, and we are fighting for our fucking country. And these assholes are gonna take it away. They’re gonna take it away. Fuck you Clarence ‘Uncle’ Thomas! Fuck you! Joe, you now have the right to take that bitch Trump out. Take him out, Joe. If he was Hitler, and this was 1940, you’d take him out. Well, he is Hitler. And this is 1940. Take him the fuck out! Blow him up, or they’ll blow us up. Facts.”— Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black actress Lea DeLaria in July 1 Instagram post.   Actor/musician Jack Black: “Make a wish!”...Actor/musician Kyle Gass, before blowing out birthday cake candles: “Don’t miss Trump, next time.”— On stage exchange between Jack Black and Kyle Gass at their band Tenacious D’s July 14 performance in Sydney, Australia. Black apologized and canceled the tour. Gass initially apologized then deleted it.   “Do you see yourself and would you ever consider being the conduit to that third party? Because I don’t know if the Republican Party as we knew it will survive this because if he [Donald Trump] ever gets in again we’ll never have any more elections. There will be no more. He will stop it and he’s very clear about that. He wants to be dictator for life!” — Co-host Whoopi Goldberg to Liz Cheney on ABC’s The View, January 10.   “I always keep saying, democracy is great, of course, but democracy people take for granted.….The guy’s a monster….It’s almost like he wants to do the most horrible things that he can think of in order to get a rise out of us….It’s [bleep] scary. Excuse my French…. As a kid, I said ‘Hitler, it’s a nightmare. That never would happen.’ But now I see that it is possible.”— Actor Robert De Niro on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, May 2.   “Well, [bleep]. It happened….Today, I wore my ‘I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity’ sticker....the majority has spoken, and they said that they don’t care that much about democracy.”— Host Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Show, November 6.   “We had the choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal to be president of the United States. More than half of this country voted for the criminal who is planning to pardon himself for his crimes….It was a terrible night last night. It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go, for healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech. It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth and democracy and decency and it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too. You just don’t realize it yet.”— Host Jimmy Kimmel on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, November 6.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a man plowed a pickup truck into a large crowd of partygoers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, causing terror and sending at least 30 others to the hospital with serious injuries. The attacker then reportedly exited the vehicle and began firing a weapon. New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell declared the incident a "terrorist attack" in a Wednesday morning briefing; however, the FBI disputed that characterization, saying that their agency has not yet confirmed this. The attack reportedly occurred around 3:15 am local time at the intersection of Bourbon Street and Iberville.In a Wednesday morning update to the media, New Orleans police superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said, "It did involve a man driving a pickup truck down Bourbon Street at a very fast pace, and it was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could... It was not a DUI situation. This was more complex and more serious based on the information we have right now."Kirkpatrick also indicated that the FBI has taken over the investigation into this incident.Police have not yet released any information regarding the attacker, including whether he is in custody, deceased, or still at large. Witnesses at the scene did tell local television station WWL-TV that they witnessed officers returning fire after the suspect exited the vehicle and began firing into the crowd. New Orleans police did confirm that two officers were injured in the attack, but it was not immediately clear if they were injured by the truck, gunfire, or both. The extent and seriousness of their injuries were also not clear. This is a developing story and will be updated as events warrant.

FBI, Mayor of New Orleans Give Conflicting Takes on If Attack was a 'Terrorist Event'

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