Literary agent and weblog website (Lucianne.com) proprietor Lucianne Goldberg, who was a good friend to the Media Analysis Heart, handed away Wednesday (Oct. 26) at age 87. She took the stage at our DisHonors Awards in 2002, accepting an award, in jest, on behalf of Helen Thomas. For a few years, she generously served as a choose for the MRC’s annual “Better of Notable Quotables: Awards for the 12 months’s Worst Reporting.”
She was most well-known as Linda Tripp’s good friend who revealed to a journalist the information about President Invoice Clinton’s sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, making her reviled to a lot of the left-wing Washington, DC press corps.
On Thursday, January 17, 2002, earlier than an viewers on the Ronald Reagan Constructing and Worldwide Commerce Heart in Washington, D.C., the Media Analysis Heart introduced the “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001.”
On behalf of Helen Thomas, Goldberg accepted the “Convey Again Bubba Award (for the Greatest Journalistic Lewinsky).” Thomas, a long-time White Home reporter, had hailed former President Invoice Clinton: “He’s the person from Hope, and that’s what he has given us, hope. We miss him.”
In accepting the award, Goldberg famous the debt owed her by many journalists: “I used to be in a position to give them one stable yr of golden triple platinum extra time protecting the Monica Lewinsky story. They love me for it. They’ve purchased houses and trailers, {golfing} gear, sports activities automobiles and paid their alimony off of Monica Lewinsky.”
The video above reveals the clip of Thomas, presenter John Fund introducing Goldberg (“the one lady Invoice Clinton would by no means need to see within the White Home”), adopted by some remarks by Goldberg.
A tribute to her by John Podhoretz; “Lucianne Goldberg, 1935-2022”
Earlier posts on DisHonors Awards individuals who’ve handed away:
> “Midge Decter, RIP; Video of Her At MRC’s DisHonors Awards in 2005″
> “Herman Cain Presents ‘Humorous Clips’ at MRC’s twentieth Anniversary Gala”
> “Witty Anti-Media Allegory and Joke from the Late T. Boone Pickens”
> “Witty Remarks By Stan Evans, RIP, on the MRC’s 2006 ‘DisHonors Awards’”