Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Derek Hunter Show Wednesday night to break down the elitist media’s most outrageous quotes of the year as part of the MRC’s annual Worst Quote of the Year award, which spotlights the most egregious or biased statements in the media. For the third runner-up, Bozell discussed Sunny Hostin of The View, who claimed that criticizing Stephen Colbert—one of late night’s highest-paid hosts—was “the dismantling of our democracy” and that attacking comedians meant “our constitution is being dismantled.” Bozell called it a classic example of liberal exaggeration: the country is “going to hell in a handbasket because we dared criticize the comedian for losing $40 million a year and not being funny.” The second runner-up came from Elie Mystal of The Nation, who called the U.S. Constitution “a piece of crap” during an appearance on The Breakfast Club podcast. Bozell fired back: “I would respectfully suggest that our friend Elie, if he loves the South African Constitution so much, then go move there and just deprive us of all of your sage wisdom and advice here in America, that’s in his words, ‘a piece of crap.’” And for the top honor, Bozell highlighted Matthew Dowd, formerly of MSNBC, who, in the immediate aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, speculated that the killing could have been the result of “a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration” and drew an apparent link between what he described as “hateful thoughts,” “hateful words,” and subsequent “hateful actions." Bozell: “MSNBC did the right thing, believe it or not, and fired him right there on the spot. So it just goes to show you how egregious that comment really was in the moment.” Readers can watch all of the clips for themselves in MRC’s full Worst Quote of the Year breakdown here.

Three House Democrats voted Wednesday to protect children from transgender procedures, passing a bill that would otherwise have failed because four Republicans voted against it. The “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” (H.R. 3492) passed 216-to-211. Without the help of the three Democrats, the bill would’ve failed, 214-213.  Two of the three Democrats voting for the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” represent districts in Texas: Reps. Don Davis of North Carolina. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas. Henry Cuellar of Texas. The four Republicans who bucked the rest of their party to oppose the measure protecting minors (under 18 years old) from being subjected to transgender procedures – such as castration, sterilization and genital mutilation – are: Reps. Mike Lawler of New York. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. Mike Kennedy of Utah. Gabe Evans of Colorado. And Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), who ultimately voted for the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, did not allow it to come up for a vote until after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who introduced it, agreed to vote in favor of a rule on a different, defense bill. “Children are not old enough to vote, drive, or get a tattoo and they are certainly not old enough to be chemically castrated or permanently mutilated!!!,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who introduced the bill. In a presentation on the House floor prior to the vote, Rep. Greene displayed images and examples of the harm done to minors by the types of transgender procedures the bill would outlaw. Minors who are not mature enough to vote, buy alcohol or get tattoos aren’t mature enough to receive such severe, life-changing and often irreversible procedures, Rep. Greene said. In a post on her congressional website, Rep. Green explains that the Protect Children’s Innocence Act: Criminalizes any attempt to perform or facilitate genital or bodily mutilation or chemical castration on a minor, with up to 10 years in federal prison and/or a significant fine. Bans all puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone treatments for children. Provides no exemption for mental health disorders as justification for these procedures. Defines “chemical castration” and “genital or bodily mutilation” with detailed legal clarity. Exempts children born with certain rare genetic conditions, or who are experiencing medical emergencies as certified by a physician. The Protect Children’s Innocence Act now faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim 53-47 majority, but would need 60 votes to get past a Democrat filibuster and proceed to a vote to pass the bill. Protecting children is not optional, it’s our duty. Today on the House floor, I spoke for the voiceless: America’s kids. Children are not old enough to vote, drive, or get a tattoo and they are certainly not old enough to be chemically castrated or permanently mutilated!!!… pic.twitter.com/LGR1XE1Usa — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) December 17, 2025

The View’s anti-military bent from most of the year came to ahead on Thursday’s show as ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg asserted, without evidence, that President Trump’s announced “warrior dividends” (a $1,776 pay bonus) where about bribing service members to follow illegal orders. Additionally, co-host Joy Behar was outraged that Trump had the nerve to call President Obama a “divisive” figure. For which, she demanded the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Before Goldberg claimed the checks were a bride to get the military to back him, she first casted doubt on if they would be getting any money at all: ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700. GOLDBERG: Let's see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first. While faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin was scoffing at the notion of the “warrior dividends,” Goldberg pivoted to claiming the checks were a bribe to get service members to back whatever plots and illegal orders he was planning to issue: FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer, smart policies are the answer. GOLDBERG: He’s  - What he’s doing is he's thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me and what I want. See?   Whoopi doubts Trump is going to pay the troops his announced $1,776 bonus, but then claims it's a bribe for them to back his plots: "What he's doing is, he's thinking, 'if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need they'll back me and what I want, see?" pic.twitter.com/DBmKx6IfEN — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025   Goldberg’s comments showed that she looked down on our men and women in uniform if she thought $1,776 was enough to buy off the military to back a coup, shoot civilians, steal an election, or whatever other harebrained scenario The View’s cracked brains had thought up over the course of 2025. Elsewhere in Thursday’s show, Behar was flapping her gums in outrage over Trump having a plaque hung in the White House that called out Obama as a “divisive” president. Her reasoning? “[Because we love Barack Obama and it's wrong of [Trump],” she whined. Behar showed off her lack of reading comprehension or perhaps the liberal Pavlovian response to see racism in everything: He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. ‘A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history.’ Why, because he was black?! Why is everything is about race with him?! Literally, nothing about what she read had anything to do with race.   Joy Behar says "we love Barack Obama" and "it's wrong of [Trump]" to speak ill of him and thinks he should be kicked out of office for it: "He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history, 'A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most… pic.twitter.com/VeulUxyDLC — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025   Behar proceeded to shriek about how Trump speaking bad about Obama warranted the use of the 25th Amendment: “When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?!” Too bad, there wasn’t a 25th Amendment for The View because something seemed seriously wrong upstairs for Behar if that’s her reaction. With a total lack of self-awareness, co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to assert, “Obama lives rent-free in his head” and hyped Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as if he actually did something to earn it (which he didn’t). “[Trump]’s not going to win that Nobel Prize,” Hostin boasted. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 18, 2025 11:09:11 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let's see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first. SUNNY HOSTIN: Where is the money coming from? FARAH GRIFFIN: He says tariff revenue. That's what I'm most intrigued to see if that's the case. Listen, coming off the government shutdown -- HOSTIN: I don’t have my phone. I got to check that with ChatGPT, because I don’t believe that. FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer, smart policies are the answer. GOLDBERG: He’s  - What he’s doing is he's thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me and what I want. See? (…) 11:27:16 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: This is what he says about him. I want to read what he says about Barack Obama because we love Barack Obama and it's wrong of him. [Cheers and applause] He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history. Why, because he was black?! GOLDBERG: No. BEHAR: Why is everything is about race with him?! SARA HAINES: It might also be the jealousy of how well he did for people. HOSTIN: Well, Obama lives rent-free in his head. For sure, for sure. He will never be the type of president President Obama was. He’s not going to win that Nobel Prize. BEHAR: When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?! FARAH GRIFFIN: He's doing this to trigger people. He wants people to get outraged and to troll. Because that's how he is. BEHAR: What is his motive?! HOSTIN: We are not outraged, we feel he is juvenile and unhinged. BEHAR: What is his motive, Alyssa?! HOSTIN: Distraction. FARAH GRIFFIN: It's to distract, it’s troll. (…)

MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera Reports melted down late Thursday morning after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Trump administration will not provide Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement funding to hospitals that provide so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. According to medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta, “every medical society” would disagree with the administration’s rationale despite Gupta’s own employer having a research scandal just a few years ago on this very topic. Cabrera teed up a clip of Kennedy by declaring, “The plan would block hospitals from getting Medicare and Medicaid funding, which virtually every U.S. hospital receives if they provide gender-affirming care to trans youth.”     In the clip, Kennedy was shown telling an audience that “The Trump administration will not stand by. While ideology, misinformation, and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse. On my watch, HHS will stand for radical transparency and informed consent.” Cabrera then introduced Gupta and wondered, “What's your response to that and how vast is this impact of proposals?” Gupta began by lamenting “Well, Ana, just to begin with that, it's incredibly vast. If they are—they're saying that any services that are provided in hospitals for gender-affirming care will be—Medicare and Medicaid funding will be put at risk for any other unrelated service. That's 40 percent of revenues for hospitals across the country. So the scope and the impact here is huge.” Moving on to the substance of the Kennedy clip, Gupta continued, “I'll just take issue with his words, though, and his framing. This is there is no—one: there's no evidence, let's be clear that gender affirming care. The best research and there's limitations. But the best research has actually shown it actually improves overall mental health and well-being for those that undergo it.” Gupta teaches at the University of Washington, which in 2022 had a scandal where the PR campaign for a study on this very topic greatly oversold its actual data that contradicts what Gupta told Cabrera. Nevertheless, Gupta rolled right along, “And there's no evidence that it's been—is actually harmful. There are some risks, physiological, say, bone health and cardiovascular risks that we have to monitor, hence the importance of clinically driven care. That's critical. But this notion here that there isn't informed consent, this notion that this is somehow impinging on people's freedoms, that's wrong.” Despite UW’s own inglorious history and other countries that are not exactly run by Religious Right types are restricting the “care,” Gupta added, “This is something that every medical society has recommended. And again, there's no evidence that it's actually harmful. So, let's be clear on that.” “Let’s be clear,” there are actually several harmful repercussions to giving minors this kind of treatment. It is just that MS NOW would rather not talk about them. Here is a transcript for the December 18 show: MS NOW Ana Cabrera Reports 12/18/2025 11:47 AM ET ANA CABRERA: The plan would block hospitals from getting Medicare and Medicaid funding, which virtually every U.S. hospital receives if they provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. And here's how Kennedy described all this moments ago. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: The Trump administration will not stand by. While ideology, misinformation, and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse. On my watch, HHS will stand for radical transparency and informed consent. CABRERA: Let's bring in pulmonologist and global health expert, Dr. Vin Gupta, an MS NOW medical contributor. Dr. Gupta, he's calling this radical transparency and informed consent. What's your response to that and how vast is this impact of proposals? VIN GUPTA: Well, Ana, just to begin with that, it's incredibly vast. If they are—they're saying that any services that are provided in hospitals for gender-affirming care will be—Medicare and Medicaid funding will be put at risk for any other unrelated service. That's 40 percent of revenues for hospitals across the country. So the scope and the impact here is huge. I'll just take issue with his words, though, and his framing. This is there is no—one: there's no evidence, let's be clear that gender affirming care. The best research and there's limitations. But the best research has actually shown it actually improves overall mental health and well-being for those that undergo it. And there's no evidence that it's been—is actually harmful. There are some risks, physiological, say, bone health and cardiovascular risks that we have to monitor, hence the importance of clinically driven care. That's critical. But this notion here that there isn't informed consent, this notion that this is somehow impinging on people's freedoms, that's wrong. This is something that every medical society has recommended. And again, there's no evidence that it's actually harmful. So, let's be clear on that.

Always on the lookout for new ways to attack President Trump, Morning Joe went musical today.  The show opened Thursday's episode with Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind" playing in the background, mocking Trump's frequent mentions of his predecessor in his address to the country last night, and in other instances. Scarborough announced with delight: "Joe Biden. Very much living rent-free in Donald Trump's mind." Mock away, Morning Joe. But in contrast with Biden, at least Trump has a mind that works. Speaking of which, where was Scarborough's mind when he angrily bellowed, just three months before Biden's infamous debate meltdown, that this was "the best Biden ever, and f-you if you don't believe it?" Then Joe cited the New York Times:    SCARBOROUGH: You know, so the New York Times, even before this speech last night, had written an article about how absolutely obsessed Donald Trump is with Joe Biden. And they wrote that. they actually counted during the first 50 days Donald Trump said Joe Biden's name, an average of 6.32 times per day. I mean, think about that. Every day.  GEIST: It's an obsession. SCARBOROUGH: Per day. It is.  These people don't have the self-awareness to consider that it would be easy to say Donald Trump "lived rent-free in their mind" throughout the Biden years. Do they believe Barack Obama never blamed anything on his predecessor? Or Biden? Or Bill Clinton?  Scarborough and Geist went on to rip Trump's mocking plaques of his Democrat predecessors that he's installed in the White House. Notable is that of Biden, in which an autopen takes the place of Biden's visage. It's not the most dignified gesture in presidential history -- Trump is all about annoying the libs -- but if anyone is poorly placed to criticize mocking, it's Joe Scarborough. Note: With few exceptions, notably of the country music variety, musicians lean left, and a number of them have demanded that Trump cease using their songs.  But we don't expect Willie Nelson to object to Morning Joe's use of "Always On My Mind." Willie's an ardent Democrat who has supported every Democrat presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter--and even staged a concert for Robert Francis O'Rourke, aka Beto, during one of his failed campaigns. Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 12/18/24 6:00 am ET PRESIDENT TRUMP [from address of 12/17/25]: Under the Biden administration, compared to the Biden last year, under Biden, 30 to 100% under Biden, the worst thing that the Biden administration did. JOE SCARBOROUGH [laughing as strains of "Always On My Mind" play in the background] Come on: sing it, Willie. Come on. Sing it. Oh, I love Willie. Oh, yeah. Joe Biden. Very much living rent-free in Donald Trump's mind.  Good morning. And welcome to Morning Joe. And it is a good morning anytime you can start with Willie. Willie Nelson. And Willie. And Willie Geist.  WILLIE GEIST: The sweet sound of Willie. That's a good start to the show, that song, isn't it?  SCARBOROUGH: Oh, that is so good. That is so good. It's awesome.  You know, so the New York Times, even before this speech last night, had written an article about how absolutely obsessed Donald Trump is with Joe Biden. And they wrote that. they actually counted during the first 50 days Donald Trump said Joe Biden's name, an average of 6.32 times per day. I mean, think about that. Every day.  GEIST: It's an obsession. SCARBOROUGH: Per day. It is.  And then when he had that cabinet meeting last week where people said he was having a very hard time staying awake, he, when he was there and conscious, the Times said that he blurted out Joe Biden's name eight times in 20 minutes.  And here we are. This is over 300 days into Donald Trump's second administration. And it's just, it is a constant obsession.  And now he's putting up third-grade plaques in the people's White House. Might as well write it in crayons. But yeah, there is a crazy obsession with Joe Biden. Biden lives rent-free in his head.  GEIST: No question about it. And the American people disagree with him about this, by the way. They believe this economy is Donald Trump's. As we look at that headline, the presidential walk of fame. What Joe's talking about is now, in addition to those photographs of former presidents, they've added plaques, written clearly by Donald Trump himself, maybe lifted from Truth Social posts with all the grammar and spelling that comes with that, memorialized in bronze, attacking the president whose portrait sits above that. In that case, Joe Biden's. But my larger point was, he may be obsessed with Joe Biden--the country is not. SCARBOROUGH: No! GEIST: The country has moved on from Joe Biden and said, this economy stinks. I can't afford my life, and it's not Joe Biden's fault anymore.