Hewitt Award Nominee

"[Obama] has encouraged Arab street revolts against corrupt autocracies. Long-standing American allies, such as former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, were abandoned. Yet, contrary to his simplistic narrative of freedom fighters battling tyranny, Mr. Obama has helped pave the way for the triumph of Shariah democracy – the drive to establish a global Islamic caliphate. At his core, Mr. Obama is a radical secular progressive. Like all multiculturalists, he believes in one seminal myth: Mass poverty and oppression in the Third World is America’s fault. Hence, he champions anti-colonial 'liberation movements' – the uprisings of repressed peoples, especially those in the Muslim world, chafing under authoritarian rule. Yet he never bothers to ask: What comes next? What kind of regime replaces the previous one? The results are often even worse," – Jeffrey T. Kuhner, The Washington Times.

The movement on the right from celebrating Arab democracy under Bush to fearing it under Obama is a real shift. It reveals the shallow veneer of neoconservatism's defense of Arab democracy when compared with its deep attachment to Greater Israel.

Hewitt Award Nominee

"There’s something sick about an administration which is so pro-Islamic that it can’t even tell the truth about the people who are trying to kill us. … I think we can look into the mind of a president in the speed and thoroughness with which they have disowned their own people," - Newt Gingrich, who recently said that defeating Obama is a "duty of national security."

Moore Award Nominee

"So Western media sneak correspondents into Syria illegally, and then expect the Syrian regime to protect them.  If Israel were to see one Western correspondent sneaking into Israel, he/she would be incinerated on the spot," – As'ad Abu Khalil, on the killing of journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik by Syrian shells hitting a media tent in Homs.

Moore Award Nominee

by Chris Bodenner

"I think the Komen story is important [because] we need scalps. The right scares the fuck out of the press (for example) because they got people at NPR fired recently, ended Dan Rather’s career a few years ago, etc. The left needs to scare people too. Nothing scares comfortable people more than the destructions of careers and organizations," – DougJarvus Green-Ellis, Balloon Juice, trying to milk what should be an apolitical protest for all it's worth.

Hewitt Award Nominee II

"Let [Romney]  make this challenge: 'I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns,'" – Mike Huckabee.

Foreign student? Will Fox correct … oh … never mind … I forgot they aren't "actual journalists."