Erick Erickson Wins MRC’s Bulldog Award.

The Media Research Center (MRC) has awarded its MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show Host to Erick Erickson.

Erickson, whose show is syndicated nationally by Compass Media, says he was pushed into radio by Rush Limbaugh. “Rush insisted he’d never talk to me again if I didn’t get on the radio,” Erickson explained. “So, I did.”

The awards are held in response to the Pulitzer Prize awards, which the MRC says honor journalists who push liberal agenda topics. The fourth annual Bulldog Awards recipients include Erickson, Thomas Sowell (Lifetime Achievement), Elon Musk (Outstanding Social Media Personality), Megyn Kelly (Outstanding Podcast), Scott Jennings (Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines), Kimberly Strassel (Outstanding Columnist), Gabe Kaminsky (Outstanding Investigative Journalist), and Spencer Linquist (Outstanding Blogger).

“As trust in left-wing media continues to collapse, independent news sources featuring fearless truth-tellers are on the rise,” Brent Baker, MRC Vice President for Research and Publications, said in a release. “This year’s MRC Bulldog winners are replacing discredited leftists who claim to report the news, yet failed the American people when it came to stories like the Russiagate scandal and Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Congratulations to this year’s winners!”

Previous winners of the Outstanding Radio Talk Show Host include Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, and Chris Plante.