Media Matters has the most outrageous statements of 2005. Here are my favorites:

Pat Buchanan: “Our guys” in Iraq “have got every right to have good news put into the media and get to the people of Iraq, even if it’s got to be planted or bought.” [MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, 12/1/05]

Rush Limbaugh: “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05]

Neal Boortz, suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution: “I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard here in Atlanta and have a job. What’s that? Well, no, no, no. … Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it … [i]f that’s the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers.” [Cox Radio Syndication’s The Neal Boortz Show, 10/24/05]

Of course, these don’t even scratch the surface of the reservoir of spite, bile, and callousness we see and hear on television and radio everyday. But, I keep reminding myself, the media is liberal.

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