It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, which included NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoffrey Dickens and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Joe Scarborough!  The MSNBC host won for his truly laugh-out-loud March 6 take that the 2024 “version” of President Joe Biden was “intellectually, analytically” the “best Biden ever.”      MRC President L.Brent Bozell announced: “Back in March when it was apparent to everybody that Joe Biden was losing it, here comes Joe Scarborough to not only reject those claims but boldly boast that Biden was quote ‘intellectually’ and ‘analytically’ the sharpest he’s ever been. Four months later his own party dumped him. In a media landscape full of Biden excuse-makers, Scarborough’s sycophancy stood out.” This makes the Morning Joe co-host a back-to-back winner of Worst Quote of the Year! In 2023 he won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump won re-election he would “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents. Without further ado, here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up):   WINNER   “Start your tape right now, because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 6 rejecting claims Biden was slipping mentally.   FIRST RUNNER-UP “He [Joe Biden] will be remembered as a great President. He will be mentioned in the same sentence as George Washington.”— Long-time Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter on NBC’s Morning News NOW, July 22.   SECOND RUNNER-UP  “It [bloodbath comment] scared me, honestly, you know? I didn’t think ever in my lifetime I would see that….He [Donald Trump] is using that kind of World War II rhetoric that led to the deaths of six — the murders of 6 million people.” — Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 18.   THIRD RUNNER-UP “There is an entire right wing media ecosystem that doesn’t exist on the left and it does not exist in the center or mainstream.”— PBS News Hour White House correspondent/CNN analyst Laura Barron-Lopez on CNN’s Inside Politics, November 7.

President-elect Donald Trump has taken a great deal of abuse for proposing the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, potentially as many or even more than Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush deported while in office — 12.29 million and 10.32 million, respectively if counting both formal removals and returns. Leftists and liberal publications, including some that previously tried to blame the Republican for Obama's "cages," have characterized Trump's plan not only as unprecedented but as authoritarian, brutal, costly, fascistic, illegal, racist, and xenophobic. CNN admitted Wednesday that Trump's supposedly unthinkable plan is not only business as usual where immigration enforcement is concerned — discounting the past four years — but reminiscent of the approach taken by an idol of the American left: former President Barack Obama. "While Trump's allies have floated draconian measures to detain and deport people residing in the U.S. illegally, the plans are, in many ways, consistent with the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement has often carried out operations," wrote CNN's White House correspondent Priscilla Alvarez. Not only is there a resemblance in approach, the personnel executing the plan are in some cases carryovers. Trump's border czar nominee Tom Homan was appointed by Obama in 2013 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations. Homan did such a good job kicking criminal noncitizens out of the country that the Democratic administration gave him the Distinguished Rank Award in 2015. 'They're not doing anything new.' "A lot of the same tactics are being dusted off," John Sandweg, who served as an acting ICE director under Obama, told CNN. "What Tom is talking about are Obama-esque things. He's going to have to do more draconian things to do a million deportations in a year." When accounting for both removals and returns, the Migration Policy Institute indicated Obama deported over 5.2 million noncitizens between 2009 and 2016 and sent nearly one million noncitizens (973,937) packing in his first year. If strictly counting deportations through removal orders, then Obama oversaw more than any other American president up until that time — at least 2.9 million noncitizens. While the liberal press remained more or less deferential, the Latino advocacy group National Council of La Raza (now UnidosUS), the ACLU, and other leftist groups dubbed the Democratic president the "deporter in chief." Trump, evidently held to a different standard, has previously alluded to the efficacy of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback," where the U.S. Military helped deport up to 1.3 million illegal aliens within a few months. While CNN noted a similar operation would constitute a dramatic shift in interior enforcement by recent standards, the publication reiterated that the plan so far articulated by Trump aides, again, resembles actions taken during Obama's tenure. For instance, Homan told Center Square last month the "priorities will focus on public safety threats, national security threats and fugitives." CNN noted that "ICE has generally been instructed to follow that protocol, including under President Joe Biden." Although critics have pounced on Homan for telling the Washington Examiner and indicating the same in other interviews that "in sanctuary cities, expect a lot of collateral arrests," that was similarly the case during enforcement operations under previous administrations. The use of military bases to temporarily detain illegal aliens, the return of family detention, and other elements of Trump's quickly solidifying plan were also championed, implemented, and/or expanded by past Democratic administrations. "They're not doing anything new. None of these ideas that are being tossed about are new," Jason House, former ICE chief of staff under the Biden administration, told the liberal publication. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

After many delays and much anticipation, Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the 1,547-page continuing resolution that Congress will need to pass in order to avert a government shutdown just days before Christmas. The CR was originally supposed to be revealed before the weekend of December 14, but due to ongoing negotiations, the funding bill was not actually revealed until Tuesday night. Although the CR had already become the subject of scrutiny due to the timing and the lack of transparency, the funding bill is now expected to have even more defections after the text of the funding bill was actually made public. 'Soon they will have to face the American people and say, "We've tacked on hundreds of billions of dollars onto the debt because it was easier for us."'"I had hoped to see Speaker Johnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man," Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said in a Wednesday post on X. "The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit. A sad day for America.""Conservative Republicans should start an OnlyFans account considering how often we get screwed," Republican Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida said in a Tuesday post on X. "The CR is a bad deal."‘Twas three days before the gov't shutdownAnd I’m at my deskOn page 54 of this 1,547 page mess.The CR is garbageChocked full of carnage.I’ll be a hard noI won’t stoop that low.— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) December 18, 2024 Despite having the December 20 deadline on their calendars for months, leaders left the CR on the back burner. Consequently, lawmakers are frustrated that they are now forced to vote on a funding bill just days before the deadline. "Congress has had months to negotiate a clean government funding bill to get us to Trump's term," Republican Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas said in a Tuesday post on X. "Yet, here they are again at the last second trying to jam a 1,500+ page CR that could be called for a vote before the required 72 hour rule. The DC Apparatus operates not on transparency, but behind closed doors away from the American people." "There is no strategy," Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of Power the Future, told Blaze News. "The goal here is just for them to all go home for Christmas and to promise the American people that next year they will tackle it. That's been the strategy, or the regular operations of Capitol Hill, for the last 20 years." The CR itself contains numerous provisions that are unrelated to the bare-bones approach many fiscal conservatives had hoped for. The funding bill includes the first pay raise for lawmakers since 2009 as well as an opt-out from Obamacare, $100 billion of disaster relief for hurricane victims, $30 billion of aid for farmers, and a crucial provision transferring the Robert F. Kennedy stadium to the District of Columbia. In short, Johnson threw together a Christmas omnibus for lawmakers to deal with in the 11th hour. While it's not unusual for Congress to put out a Christmas omnibus, Johnson notably said he would take it upon himself to break the tradition. US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listen during a Hanukkah reception at the US Capitol Building on December 17, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)"We have broken the Christmas omni," Johnson said during a press conference in September. "And I have no intention of going back to that terrible tradition. So there won’t be a Christmas omnibus. ... We’re not gonna do any buses.”"People call me 'NostraThomas' for accurately predicting Speaker Johnson would use the Christmas recess to force a massive spending bill through Congress," Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said in a Wednesday post on X. "After claiming he would not, Johnson is embracing a D.C. tradition that's nearly as old as decorating Christmas trees."The Christmas omnibus will kick the can down the road until mid-March, roughly 100 days into President-elect Donald Trump's administration. Trump's hands are tied as a result, giving him and his administration no control over the budget for the first 100 days, weakening his ability to implement the MAGA mandate Americans voted for. "It's always next year, and it's very frustrating," Turner told Blaze News. "When you see the American people gave a very decisive mandate on spending, on the cost of food, on the cost of energy, on the cost of goods and services, and still they're tacking on just absurd amounts of spending to make their jobs easier." "Soon they will have to face the American people and say, 'We've tacked on hundreds of billions of dollars onto the debt because it was easier for us,'" Turner continued. "But it's not your job to do it the easy way. It's your job to do it the right way."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Pizzeria owners in Tennessee received a barrage of hateful social media posts after they declined to cater a gay wedding.Rumors apparently began to swirl recently that Justin and Amanda Jo Bennett — who own Pizzeria Cortile in Red Bank, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga — would refuse to cater a same-sex wedding. According to a screenshot of a direct message shared by the Daily Mail, the establishment confirmed those reports: "We do not cater same sex weddings."On Monday, the owners took to social media to clarify their position. "Recently, we made the difficult decision not to cater a wedding due to our personal beliefs," a message posted to the Pizzeria Cortile Facebook account said.The owners then indicated they knew they would soon face backlash for those "personal beliefs." "This belief comes from a place of personal conviction, one we know is not shared by everyone, and it is one we hold without judgment toward others," the message continued.The message also noted that the restaurant has served "people from all walks of life" and has attempted "to create an environment where everyone feels loved and respected." The owners further expressed hope that others would respect their personal beliefs."We hope with time we can find an opportunity to extend grace and listen to one another, and to remember that while we may not always agree, we can still treat each other with dignity and love."'Liberals want to shout love everyone and everyone needs to have their own beliefs, but they mean everyone except Christians.'Since the Bennetts limited replies on that particular Facebook post, users inundated previous posts with thousands of messages, most of which accused the owners of engaging in wanton discrimination and "homophobia.""I prefer my pizza without a side of homophobia," wrote one user."Imagine refusing money because of homophobia ... in this economy is insane to me," added another.Others went further and called the owners "bigots.""There aren’t two reasonable sides here. Nobody asked you to be gay. Or promote any kind of message. They asked for pizza. And bigots refused. That’s the whole story. It isn’t any deeper. It is black-and-white discrimination," said one."You can try to wrap this up in a pretty bow by using words like 'our personal beliefs', but what you are doing is discriminating against others. It is bigotry, plain and simple. Very, very disappointed in y’all," said another comment."I hope your business tanks," said one user, while another added, "Enjoy being broke soon." Both included smiley emojis in their respective posts.Even Hollie Berry, a former mayor of Red Bank, seemed to side with the leftists, taking to social media to post the city's mission statement, which promises to be "welcoming" to "all" and to offer "excellent and efficient services," Local 3 News reported.However, others noted that the pizzeria is a private business and that the owners have the right to their personal views, just as LGBTQ+ activists do."The Supreme Court has ruled on this, and it is in fact not discrimination. You are free to make your own choices but so are they. Who are you to force someone else to share your beliefs but then expect them not to do the same?" one user wrote.Yet another individual who claims to know the Bennetts personally defended the couple, describing them as "such a kind and sweet family" and insisting that those leveling the criticism "don't truly know them." The individual also called out leftists for their "hateful" hypocrisy:"It saddens me that Christians get so attacked. Liberals want to shout love everyone and everyone needs to have their own beliefs, but they mean everyone except Christians.""In case you were unaware, if you own your own business, you have the right to do as you please."Pizzeria Cortile did not respond to the New York Post's request for comment, and Local 3 could not reach the Bennetts for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Federal authorities are weighing the risk that a popular Chinese internet router poses to U.S. national security interests and are considering banning the devices, which have been involved in cyberattacks, according to The Wall Street Journal.