The Media Research Center released its fourteenth annual awards for the year’s worst reporting, the comprehensive “The Best Notable Quotables of 2001.” Roger Ebert gets a thumbs down for this mental nacho burp:

George W. Bush was so indifferent to the world that in the years before he became President he mode only two overseas trips, both for business, neither for curiosity. No wonder he wants to break the missile treaty, alienate NATO, ignore global warming and reinstall Russia and China as enemies: Those foreign countries scarcely exist in his imagination. Why go to Australia when you have the Outback Steakhouse right here at home? [from Chicago Sun-Times op-ed., July 24]

Hey Rog — just tell me whether I should bother with Joe vs. the Volcano 2, okay? Leave the political non-sequiturs to pros like Fisk and Jukes and Margaret Carlson…

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