Brent Bozell

Bozell on IRS Scandal: ‘Bigger Than Watergate’
By NB Staff | March 7, 2014 | 8:45 AM EST

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” last night and chastised the networks for skipping the substance of the latest congressional hearing on the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups. Bozell’s comments came after Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the scandal, once again refused to answer questions during a congressional hearing, instead choosing to use her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Rather than discussing the merits of the latest hearing, all three networks chose instead to play up the verbal confrontation between Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), making it 99 days since ABC, CBS and NBC have even mentioned the actual IRS scandal. “I do believe that this IRS scandal is bigger than Watergate. And I think if you look at it objectively I think you conclude that” proclaimed Bozell. [See video below.]

Bozell on IRS Targeting Conservatives: ‘Where’s The Rest Of The Press, Where’s Anyone Covering This?’
By NB Staff | February 27, 2014 | 2:03 PM EST

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” last night and condemned the media for its continued blackout of the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups. Bozell’s comments came after Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the scandal, was recalled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions related to her involvement in the targeting of conservative organizations.

We know that the person that was put in charge of this investigation turns out to be an Obama donor, a clear conflict of interest. And now Lois Lerner, who is at the center of all this, says she will testify if she’s given immunity from federal prosecution, and these liberals are saying there isn’t a scandal?” proclaimed Bozell. [See video below.]

WATCH: MRC's Bozell, FBN's Varney Condemn Network Over-Coverage of Global Warming
By NB Staff | February 19, 2014 | 12:27 PM EST

"I was not aware of senators, liberal senators, suggesting to the networks that they make a big deal out of global warming, climate change..... When did they do that?" Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney asked guest Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center (MRC), on his February 18  program.

"Absolutely. A letter was sent to the heads of all the networks to say that they weren't doing a good enough job promoting global warming," Bozell informed the Varney & Co. audience. "Imagine if a Republican caucus were to say to the networks" that they were not adequately "promoting the right-to-life position" or "tax cuts or covering ObamaCare"? Most certainly they wouldn't jump into action on those matters the same way they did on Sunday by flogging climate change, Bozell argued. [watch the full segment in the embed below the page break]

On Fox, MRC's Brent Bozell Reveals Dramatic Sunday Climate Change 'Tsunami' of Hype
By NB Staff | February 17, 2014 | 11:27 PM EST

MRC president Brent Bozell appeared on Monday afternoon's edition of "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on the Fox News Channel. Brent and guest host Eric Bolling discussed how the network Sunday shows all pushed "climate change" segments after Senate Democrats complained that the subject had been allegedly ignored over the last few years.

Democrats haven't moved any "climate change" legislation since Republicans took over the House in the 2010 midterms. Over time, the media have insisted on the severity of warming, but have said very little about the severity of proposed government "solutions" for this problem. Now, in one day, the networks devoted more minutes to "global warming" panic than the alleged left-wing figure the Democrats have used for the last several years:

Harvey Weinstein Responds to Brent Bozell, Claims He's Just a 'Story Teller' and Not Anti-Catholic
By Matt Hadro | January 20, 2014 | 4:06 PM EST

On Friday's Piers Morgan Live, Obama donor and film mogul Harvey Weinstein denied charges of anti-Catholicism in his latest movie "Philomena," but his anti-Catholic past shows otherwise.

"Well Brent Bozell, was the one a conservative columnist who, you know, accused me of that," Weinstein said of the accusations. He added later, "it's not an anti-Catholic bias. I made 'The Price About Rubies' with Renee Zellweger," and he claimed to be "a story teller" who just tells "heroic stories."

On 'Hannity,' MRC's Brent Bozell Makes Impassioned Stand Against Vile Shows Like '2 Broke Girls' on CBS
By NB Staff | January 17, 2014 | 8:51 AM EST

In Thursday night’s “Media Mash” slot on “Hannity,” Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell turned away frrom media bias and focused instead on new demands that the FCC do something about the CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls,” and Monday night’s episode was a doozy, complete with a joke where one waitress wisecracked about snapping her vagina back on.

Hannity wondered that in today’s anything-goes cable-TV culture, is there really any way the networks would have to bend to complaints like this? Bozell made an impassioned defense of the need to insist on standards for young children, who shouldn’t wallow in these shows. “We have to speak out about that,” he said. (Video and transcript below)

MRC's Brent Bozell Hits 'Obnoxious' Double Standard in Christie Coverage Vs. IRS
By NB Staff | January 10, 2014 | 5:58 PM EST

 Media Research Center President Brent Bozell appeared with Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto to slam the "obnoxious" double standard in how journalists have covered Chris Christie's traffic scandal in two days, versus the scant number of stories on the Obama IRS controversy over six months.

According to Bozell, "It really goes to show you how out of control this left wing so-called news press is." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Cavuto explained, "The big three networks alone devoted 17 times more coverage to this story in one day, one day, than they devoted to the IRS scandal in six months." An updated analysis my the MRC finds the disparity is now up to 44-to-one.

Bozell Denounces NBC/Comcast for Not Apologizing for Bashir's Palin Attack on 'The Kelly File'
By Ken Shepherd | December 7, 2013 | 12:32 AM EST

When Rush Limbaugh caused a stir with his comments about feminist activist Sandra Fluke, the media were whipped into a frenzy, with the Big Three broadcast networks devoting 32 stories to the row in two weeks' time. Yet there were a grand total of zero stories devoted to former MSNBC host Martin Bashir expressing on his November 15 program that he would like to see someone defecate into the former Alaska governor's mouth.

"It was 100-fold more serious than anything Rush Limbaugh has ever said about anyone in 30 years on his show. Yet [there were] 32 stories, which is a tsunami, on Rush Limbaugh, nothing, crickets about Martin Bashir," Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell told Fox News host Megyn Kelly on the December 6 edition of The Kelly File. Bozell added that Bashir was symptomatic of "a real misogyny" at MSNBC against conservative women [WATCH video below page break; LISTEN to MP3 audio here]:

Bozell on Fox: Obama Should Be Asked When He'll Be Interviewed By a 'Non-Sycophantic Reporter'
By NB Staff | November 22, 2013 | 11:48 AM EST

On Thursday's "special edition" of "Media Mash" on Fox News, Sean Hannity talked to Juan Williams about a meeting of journalists and cable-news hosts he was invited to by the Obama White House. Williams said attendees included MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, David Corn of Mother Jones, Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post, and Washington Post bloggers Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent.

MRC president Brent Bozell guessed one idea that wasn't expressed at the meeting was when the president would consent to an interview with tough questions. This came before news of another syrupy sitdown with ABC's Barbara Walters. Has Obama sat down with Fox News since Bill O'Reilly's Super Bowl interview in February of 2011? (Update: Yes, with Chris Wallace in September, all about Syria.)

Dear Joe Scarborough: There's Not A Single Thing You Said About Me On the Radio That's True
By Brent Bozell | November 20, 2013 | 5:05 PM EST

Dear Joe:

I just read this exchange between Steve Malzberg and you.

Brent Bozell Tells Hannity to Get Medication Over to MSNBC for Their 'Ongoing Epidemic of Dishonesty' on Obamacare
By NB Staff | November 1, 2013 | 9:51 AM EDT

On Thursday night’s edition of “Media Mash” on the Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity and MRC president Brent Bozell discussed how you should “bring a laugh meter” to the coverage of desperate media liberals who are trying to insist against all the mounting evidence that Obamacare is not a debacle, and Obama never misled anyone about it.

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz even insisted the media are too concerned about their own appearance of integrity to admit the obvious, that Obamacare is so positive, has such a tremendous impact, that the press is afraid to praise it. Bozell said someone on MSNBC needs medication, because this is “an ongoing epidemic of dishonesty.”

Bozell to Cavuto: I'll Buy You Ten Beers If a Reporter Admits Republicans Were Right to Demand Obamacare Delay
By Tim Graham | October 25, 2013 | 11:17 PM EDT

On his Fox Business show Thursday night, Neil Cavuto was shocked by the turn-around in The New York Times on Obamacare: “Look at this front page headline: ‘Health law fails to lower prices for rural areas; Poor often pay more.’” He cracked: “To media watcher Brent Bozell, who read that headline, and subsequently fainted.”

Cavuto told Bozell, the Media Research Center's president: “Something’s going on here, and methinks it’s the Left reassessing everything.” Brent offered to buy Cavuto ten beers if "a single one of these reporters" actually admit the Republicans were right in the shutdown to demand a delay of Obamacare: (Transcript and video below):