The audience voting to pick the Quote of the Year at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002, before an audience of more than 800 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
Cal Thomas announced the clear winner: Dan Rather insisting, on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor on May 15, 2001 that he considers Bill Clinton to be “an honest man” and “I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”