Anyone with a mind not consumed with Bush Derangement or Obama worship, and eyes to see with noticed that the Mainstream Media was just a bit tilted toward President-elect Barack Obama this last election cycle. Actually, make that damn near horizontal, prostrated at the feet of the Chosen One his own self. Every year the Media Research Center pulls together the year’s most memorable quotes and chooses a “Quote of the Year”. This year it goes to Chris Matthews near-orgasmic blathering after covering an Obama speech: “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often….And that is an objective assessment.” Hope that wasn’t too hard on your heart there, Chris.

More from MRC:

Top runner-up for Quote of the Year went to Reuters for this ridiculous post-election headline: “Media bias largely unseen in U.S. presidential race.”

MRC President Brent Bozell: “Year after year, the liberal media outdo themselves in providing conservatives the sheer joy of laughing at their own words. The year of the Obama Paparazzi was no different, as they salivated over their savior and did everything in their power to crush conservatives. And we wonder why Americans don’t trust the media.”

This year’s winners were selected by a panel of 44 judges, consisting of radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and media observers. Judges this year include columnist Cal Thomas, radio host Neal Boortz, economist Walter Williams, American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and former National Review publisher William A. Rusher.

Gotta love the Reuters’ view of American politics, huh? From the “highlights” of 2008 the MRC offers these:

The Obamagasm Award
“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope.” — Time’s Nancy Gibbs in the November 17 cover story.

Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
“The fact of the matter is, the comparison between her [Sarah Palin] and Hillary Clinton is the comparison between an igloo and the Empire State Building!” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball, October 14.

The Irrelevant Reverend Wright Award
“To see his [Jeremiah Wright’s] career completely destroyed by three 20-second soundbites, all of the work he has done, his entire legacy gone down the drain, has been absolutely devastating to me — to him, sorry….We are still a racist country.” — Washington Post writer Sally Quinn on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 30.

From Camelot to Obamalot Award
“Today, the audacity of hope had its rendezvous with destiny….Obama is now an adopted son of Camelot. His candidacy blessed not just by the Lion of the Senate, patriarch of the clan, but by JFK’s daughter.” — David Wright on ABC’s Nightline January 28.

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Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis
“Not doing it [fighting global warming] will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.” — CNN founder Ted Turner on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 1.

Madness of King George Award
“When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.” — MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann in a “Special Comment” on Countdown, May 14.

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Admitting the Obvious Award
“When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit….I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.”
— NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an article for NBC’s “The Peacock” advertising supplement, March 23-29.

I’ve left out a few to get you to go there and read the rest. So, “out of scraps of history and hope” I’m wishing for all of us to survive this next four years with something left of our beloved country. Can’t say that I’m at all pleased with how the Bush administration is going out, nationalizing great swaths of our economy and all, but at least he’s throwing up some roadblocks in front of the eco-radicals that Obama is putting into key areas of his administration. If the economy wasn’t in the dumper already, the cap & trade system that Obama is championing would surely have killed it next year. With it all teetering on the lip of some near-future abyss, we’ll also hope that cooler heads prevail and that economic stability and stimulus will trump Climate Change madness.

That would truly help make 2009 a happier new year, at least it would for this ol’ Okie. I’ll not hold my breath . . . that blue pallor doesn’t do a body good.

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