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Bozell on 'Fox & Friends': Media Promoting Obama Talking Points on Eco
June 4th, 2011 11:38 AM
An hour before the disastrous June jobs report was released yesterday morning, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell chatted with "Fox & Friends" anchor Brian Kilmeade about the media's spin job on the Obama economy.
[See video of the segment embedded below the page break]

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Exposes Slanted Medicare Reporting on May
May 27th, 2011 5:03 PM
If the media are so worried about Medicare cuts, "why don't [they] look at ObamaCare, which takes it away?" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell asked on the May 27 "Fox & Friends."
Instead, the media have been busy furthering Democratic talking points about the Republican-proposed budget plan by Paul Ryan.
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BMI’s Dan Gainor Tells Fox & Friends About Soros Funding to Media Or
May 20th, 2011 12:59 PM
Media Research Center Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Friday to discuss George Soros’s spending over $48 million to fund media organizations.
“He’s funded the entire underpinnings of America journalism. Here’s a guy who threw $600,000 at the Columbia School of Journalism, probably the most famous name for a school of journalism in the…

MRC's Brent Bozell Recaps 2011 DisHonors Awards on Friday's 'Fox & Fri
May 13th, 2011 6:30 PM
On the May 13 Fox & Friends, MRC President and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell came abaord to recap the 2011 Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards dinner held on May 7 in Washington, D.C.
Anchor Brian Kilmeade started off by showing the "Quote of the Year," which was "won" by MSNBC's Ed Schultz for ranting that Republicans "want to see you dead" and "make money off your dead…

Bozell on 'Fox & Friends': Media Blamed Bush for Rising Gas Prices, Fa
April 22nd, 2011 4:30 PM
NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell appeared on the April 22 "Fox & Friends" to discuss the media's double standard on rising gas prices.
In short, in 2006, the media blamed then-President Bush, but in 2011, anyone but Obama seems to be at fault as far as the media are concerned.
For the full video of the segment, watch the video embed posted after the…

MRC's Bozell Hits Media's 'Sky Is Falling' Budget-Cut Bias on April
April 16th, 2011 9:00 AM
What the media like about President Obama's budget proposal over Rep. Paul Ryan's are the former's insistence on tax hikes, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told the audience of Friday's "Fox & Friends."
"That's the part of deficit reduction they like" but "anytime anybody proposes any cut of any wasteful spending, the media are the first ones there to talk about the sky falling and…

SNL Bashes ‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts as Dumb, Fear-Spreading Racists
April 10th, 2011 11:16 AM
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” went after the Fox News Channel again, this time depicting the hosts of the network's morning show as dumb, fear-mongering racists.
Saturday’s sketch began with an announcer stating, “You’re watching ‘Fox & Friends’ – coffee, smiles, fear and terror” (video follows with commentary):

MRC's Bozell Notes Media Downplaying or Ignoring Schumer's 'Extremists
April 2nd, 2011 1:58 PM
Appearing on Friday's "Fox & Friends," NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell addressed how the media conveniently ignore or downplay liberal Democratic gaffes or incivility.
For example, earlier this week Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was caught unawares on microphone laying out to fellow Democrats his partisan talking points about "extremist" Republicans…

MSNBC’s Schultz Discovers FNC's Smith and Van Susteren are Not Conse
February 25th, 2011 9:23 AM
Twice this week on the Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz has paid attention to FNC’s Shepard Smith for not approaching the Wisconsin labor union controversy from the right, and also added in FNC’s Greta Van Susteren on Thursday. On Wednesday, the MSNBC host began his regular "Takedown" segment:
Tonight, in the "Takedown" segment, how about Shepard Smith? I’ll tell you what, he's bucking the…

Bozell Reacts to AOL Buyout of Huffington Post on 'Fox & Friends
February 11th, 2011 5:21 PM
On Friday's "Fox & Friends," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell and Fox News host Steve Doocy discussed the recent sale of the liberal Huffington Post blog to AOL.
"I'm going to buy popcorn, I'm going to watch this meltdown," a gleeful Bozell told Doocy.
Huffington, who will be editor-in-chief for the new AOL venture, is "not going to get along with anybody," perpetually clashing with…

Brent Bozell Excoriates Chris Matthews on 'Fox & Friends' for Comparin
February 5th, 2011 10:45 AM
"He's shameless, isn't he?" asked FNC's Steve Doocy, co-host of "Fox & Friends, about MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who recently compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Tea Party.
"Chris Matthews is not a journalist," replied MRC President Brent Bozell. "He's a parody of himself."
On the February 4 "Fox & Friends," the NewsBusters publisher acknowledged that while most of the coverage…
NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Discusses Biased Reporting of Egypt Prote
February 4th, 2011 6:02 PM
Overall the coverage of the ongoing protests against Hosni Mubarak in Egypt has been pretty good, but it's when journalists get around to offering their analysis that bias has crept in, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Steve Doocy on the February 4 "Fox & Friends."
Case in point, MSNBC's Chris Matthews comparing the Muslim Brotherhood with the Tea Party movement.
"Mr.…
MRC's Bozell Blasts Media Coverage of Obama SOTU on Friday's 'Fox & Fr
January 28th, 2011 5:46 PM
When Republican presidents in years past delivered their State of the Union addresses, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted this morning, "no sooner had the words, 'God bless America,' left their lips than the analysts were there... just pouncing on them, pointing out any discrepancy, pointing out any controversy, ridiculing any mistake."
Now "along comes Barack Obama, and the same…
Media Trumpet Flawed ObamaCare Cost Estimates, Bozell Sets Record Stra
January 22nd, 2011 3:41 PM
Editor's Note: The initial post included an incorrect video embed. The correct video has now been inserted. We apologize for the error.
While mainstream media outlets repeatedly fail to question flawed health care cost estimates, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell exposed the biased coverage on the January 21 "Fox & Friends."
"This proves why they're not the mainstream media," asserted…