It’s one thing when the media cast stories in a certain light to get their desired biased effect. Not seeking balanced views, twisting the conclusions of research and telling only half the story have come to be expected.

It’s a lot to wade through. Leftist media bias permeates everything we encounter — media, books, movies, academia, even sports.

But sometimes the bias is so thick, the basic contempt for American values so comprehensive that it breaks through. Here are the Final Four in the competition for the Chris Cuomo Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year.

George Soros has said he wants to “bend the arc of history,” and, as a new report from the Media Research Center details, he has kept his word — funding a wide variety of activism for leftist causes from election law to global warming.

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