The McLaughlin Group 2006 year-end awards

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MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Okay, bummest rap. Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: The false, malicious, vicious charge that three Duke lacrosse players assaulted that gal. Mike Nifong and that stripper ought to themselves be in the dock.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Interesting.

Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: That Michael J. Fox exaggerated his symptoms of Parkinson's to make the very effective television ad that helped turn the race in Missouri towards the Democrats.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: I agree with Pat's, but the false charge that Senator Allen was anti-black. It was a malicious campaign to mischaracterize a decent man.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: That John Kerry meant to insult the troops when he flubbed the line in the prepared speech that he was making.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Bum rap.

MR. O'DONNELL: Bum rap.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Bummest rap: Likening George W. Bush to Harry Truman. That's a bum rap on Truman. A few years ago, Bush boosters tried to elevate Bush's stature by likening him to Ronald Reagan. Now it's Truman -- both analogies flat-out wrong. If anything, George Bush is more like Herbert Hoover.

Okay, fairest rap. Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: Against the Republicans, that they did not live up to their principles or support policies they said they would. And so they got their comeuppance deservedly.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: Fairest rap, that Donald Rumsfeld is a disaster and had to go. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: That Rahm Emanuel lied when he said during the campaign that he knew nothing about the Foley scandal.

The evidence has now come out that he did.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: That Bush is one of the worst presidents we've ever had.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Fairest rap: Don Rumsfeld. He just retired as secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld set out to show that the U.S. had overcome the legacy of Vietnam. He ended up creating a quagmire.

Okay, best comeback, Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: Best comeback: Unfortunately, John, it is the Taliban.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: The Taliban.

MR. BUCHANAN: They are back.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You think they're back in full force?

MR. BUCHANAN: I think they're back in serious force, yeah.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: Al Gore, who is now in contention as a possible presidential candidate and who is leading a campaign to recognize the potential danger of global warming. Hurray that he is back.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: My answer is similar to Pat's Taliban. In this case it's the House Democrats, who have come back after 12 years to take the central power of American politics back.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence O'Donnell.
MR. O'DONNELL: Jerry Brown, who was elected California's attorney general 50 years to the day after his father won the same office. Jerry could be on his way back to the governorship. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Best comeback -- I'm showing you up, O'Donnell -- Tom Cruise, (in style ?) with the host of this program on Mission Impossible I. You saw that, right?

Who started out 2006 looking like a Hollywood pariah, but he ended the year in charge of running his own studio and a storybook wedding to Katie in Italy and a --

MR. BUCHANAN: Were you there? Were you at the wedding?

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: I didn't make it -- (laughter) -- and a -- (inaudible). I was in the helicopter circling around. (Laughter.)

Were you there?

MR. O'DONNELL: No, I didn't make it -- not on the list.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Okay, most original thinker.

MR. BUCHANAN: One of your favorites, John -- General William Odom. He was right about the first Gulf War and he's right about the second Gulf war as well.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: And he got terrific response to --

MR. BUCHANAN: He ought to have a good response to it. I've read his six myths, yeah.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Did you?

Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: I give the thinking cap to Jerry Brown, now attorney general of California. He's been governor. He's been mayor of Oakland. He keeps reinventing himself. And he credits his three and a half years of Jesuit training and he quotes the 12th Rule: Let him in all things seek his greater mortification and continuing abegnation, which I think means politics is a form of self- flagellation. (Laughter.) I'm not sure.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Yeah. Well, good luck with him with that.

Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: My old boss, Newt Gingrich, almost every week has discussions about what's wrong with the country and how to fix it, winning people over who say, We wish we had someone who had those kind of ideas in the White House.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.
MR. O'DONNELL: Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, who has given us the best explanations of how the world came to be in the grip of violent religious extremism.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Most original thinker: Al Gore. He turned to a documentary film to make his case for taking action on global warming. An Inconvenient Truth, he called it. It was extreme originality at work -- extreme in the good sense.

Patrick, most stagnant thinker.

MR. BUCHANAN: Senator John McCain. Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Are you talking about putting more troops in Iraq?

MR. BUCHANAN: Just more troops, more troops, more troops, more troops. It's always more violence, always more war.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: George W. Bush -- Stay the course, Go shopping more, and also Don Rumsfeld -- Stuff happens and War is complicated.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: Denny Hastert, I hate to say once again. He inherited a vibrant conservative agenda in 1998 and added nothing to it.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: Karl Rove, who thought he could still work the wedge issues and the turnout machine in the congressional elections against a national wave of revulsion for what the White House was up to and the House and Senate Republicans.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Most stagnant thinker: Condoleezza Rice, secretary of State. Condi ended up 2006 as she began it, stuck in ruts with no workable plans for Iraq or Iran or Israel-Palestine. And with so much access to the president's ear so much of the time, Rice deserves sacking more than Rumsfeld.

Patrick, best photo op.

MR. BUCHANAN: You're in trouble, fellow, for that one. (Laughs.)

One million illegal aliens march under Mexican flags, kill Bush's amnesty bill, sell Buchanan's book.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor. MS. CLIFT: That was a photo op? (Laughs.)

MR. BUCHANAN: (Laughs.) One million Mexicans? (Laughs.)

MS. CLIFT: Okay. I'm going to go with Britney Spears flashing.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Interesting.

Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: Something with his most effective photo op -- the bombing, regretfully, of the golden mosque in Samarra, which triggered the sectarian war that had not yet started until then. It was a stunningly effective event.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: Best photo op of the year was Mel Gibson's mug shot.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Best photo op: The kiss, George Bush's and Joe Lieberman's peck on the cheek. During the Connecticut Democratic primary it was mercilessly exploited by Lieberman challenger Ned Lamont, to everyone's delight on this program -- more copy.

Enough Already award, Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton. Enough, girls. (Laughs.)

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: Bush and Cheney in general, and in particular no more racist rants from celebrities.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: All those people and their lawyers who are offended by every expression of individualism in America.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: The Enough Already award goes to Donald Trump.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Donald Trump. Are you going to expand on that?

MR. O'DONNELL: How much more of him can we take? MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You think it's self-evident?

Enough already -- the death of Princess Diana 10 years ago. The so-called definitive investigation, alas, is now over. To the conspiracy theorists, enough already.

Okay, worst lie, Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: That Pope Benedict deliberately insulted Islam -- false.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor.

MS. CLIFT: President George W. Bush -- Absolutely, we're winning.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence -- excuse me. Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: Well, I hate to say this. I agree with Eleanor, but on the proposition that he was going to keep Rumsfeld and not fire him when it came out that -- and he admitted that he was already planning his replacement. It wasn't the worst lie, but for a president, he should never be so brazen.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Oh, come, come, come, come. That's trivial, don't you think?

MR. BLANKLEY: I just designated it the worst, I guess.

MR. O'DONNELL: Tony's right. It was the worst provable lie of the year that Bush says, a week before the election, Rumsfeld's going to stay on till the end of the administration. A day after the election, he's gone.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: It was an okay falsification. A worse lie is We're making progress in Iraq. President Bush and company repeated this lie so often that it's almost as if they think Goebbels was right -- Repeat the big lies often enough and people will believe it.

Okay, capitalist of the year, Pat.

MR. BUCHANAN: Warren Buffett gives away $40 billion to the Gates Foundation and shows what a capitalist ought to do with his money.

MR. BUCHANAN: Well, he's not giving it away in one lump sum.

MR. BUCHANAN: (Laughs.) It's a lot more than I've seen John McLaughlin give away as a share of his wealth. (Laughs.)

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, maybe a couple of billion a year, but, you know.

Eleanor. MS. CLIFT: The two kids who started YouTube and then sold it to Google for $1.65 billion.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you know the name of it? Oh, YouTube.

MS. CLIFT: YouTube. (Laughs.)

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Tony.

MR. BLANKLEY: Milton Friedman, who died this year and made capitalism possible around the world.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Lawrence.

MR. O'DONNELL: It's Warren Buffett and his gracious, egoless giving away of the money. He didn't set up a Buffett foundation. He gave it to the Gates Foundation. And he's a very strong supporter of inheritance taxes and gives the lie to the Republican argument that if you tax the rich too much, they'll just stop working and producing.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: All this Buffett talk is good, but I'll give you a different level of magnitude. Capitalist of the year: The People's Republic of China. The PRC's entrepreneurship is creating a massive shift in the global economy. Never in modern history has so much wealth been transferred so fast.

We'll be right back with person of the year.