Brent Bozell

Oct. 20 'Media Mash': Media Pushing Obama to 'Embrace' 'Occupy Wall St
October 21st, 2011 10:25 AM
While the liberal media are increasingly counseling Obama to co-opt the class-warfare message of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the fact of the matter is the president's policies are left-wing enough already.
"Obama's administration has been pushing an agenda that has been constantly against corporations, constantly against capitalism, constantly supporting against the rich and supporting…

NB Publisher Bozell to Boehner: NPR Ties to 'Occupy Wall Street' Deman
October 20th, 2011 2:54 PM
Editor's Note: The following is a quote from a letter NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell sent to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) earlier today, spurred in part by the recent revelation that NPR host Lisa Simeone served as a spokesperson for the Occupy DC protest.
NPR is out of control, using taxpayer money to lend support to a sometimes violent and…

Rewind: Remember When PBS Praised Qadhafi As An Islamic Hero
October 20th, 2011 2:21 PM
Now that the American consensus holds that Moammar Qadhafi was a vile dictator who few will mourn, it might be time to recall that taxpayer-funded PBS actually aired a documentary series by an Islamic professor that honored Qadhafi as "brilliant." Brent Bozell, then chairing the National Conservative Foundation, led the charge against a series called The Africans that aired in the fall of 1986…

NB Publisher Bozell Discusses Occupy Wall Street, Presidential Race wi
October 19th, 2011 5:39 PM
"When the Tea Party came up, immediately the reports from [NBC Nightly News anchor] Brian Williams on down" were that "they were dangerous, that they were fanatics, that they were racist," but now that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is on the scene the media are hailing the movement as a liberal answer to the Tea Party with a message that's "resonating," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told…
Media Mash: Occupy Wall Street Edition
October 14th, 2011 10:46 AM
The media despised the Tea Party in its infancy, but now that they're trying to boost the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) movement, they're describing the latter as a liberal version of the former, without actually reporting on the hard-left Marxist underpinnings of the protests.
NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell and Fox News's Sean Hannity discussed the media's coverage of OWS plus the media's…

NB Publisher Bozell Slams Media for Ignoring or Downplaying Solyndra S
October 11th, 2011 2:58 PM
Editor's Note: What follows is a statement NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell released this afternoon reacting to the findings of a Media Research Center study on the media's Solyndra coverage.
ABC, CBS and NBC are aiding and abetting in the cover-up of an outrageous scandal linked directly to Obama and his failed economic policies. Even the uber liberal New York Times could not ignore this…

Bozell: Congress Must Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Left-Wing Prop
October 6th, 2011 10:45 AM
"It’s an outrage that federal money has been an enabler for NPR and PBS since 1967 in their efforts to undermine conservatives and Christians," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell complained in a statement released this morning that accompanies the release of a new Media Research Center (MRC) study detailing a comprehensive compilation of the 20 most memorable leftist excesses of National Public…

Media Mash: Attempts to Smear GOP as 'Bloodthirsty' and Newsweek Edito
September 30th, 2011 10:28 AM
In the weekly take-down of the liberal media on Fox News Channel's "Hannity" on Thursday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell condemned efforts to "demonize the Tea Party, to marginalize the Tea Party, to suggest that the Tea Party's extremist" simply because GOP debate audiences voiced support for the death penalty. [Audio available here]
Following a clip…

NB Publisher Bozell to Networks: Stop Your Assault On GOP Presidential
September 26th, 2011 2:58 PM
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NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell has issued a letter to the heads of NBC, CBS, and ABC television networks calling on them to end their bias against GOP presidential hopefuls in their reporting and interviewing.
The MRC recently released an analysis of 53 weekday morning show interviews with either…

Media Mash: CNN's Romans Pushes 'Buffett Rule'; There's No Appeasing C
September 26th, 2011 9:35 AM
"Greece has got a 45 percent income tax, a 23 percent value-added tax on top of that, so Greece should be in fine shape according to this economic theory," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Friday, reacting to a clip of CNN's Christine Romans insisting that "serious economists" all agree that taxes must be raised on America's highest income earners.
"This is a…

Video: Rep. Joe Walsh Tells NB Publisher Bozell Media Vested In 'Presi
September 23rd, 2011 10:37 AM
The media "are so vested" in Obama "not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to protect him," Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) told NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell in an exclusive for CNSNews.com earlier this week.
"There's going to be a real desperation" as the media ramp up their attacks on conservatives who are taking on the president, Walsh noted.
That's…

'Media Mash': Biased Debate Questions Edition
September 16th, 2011 9:53 AM
"We counted, in the Republican debate [hosted by MSNBC at the Reagan Library], we counted 26 ideological questions.... Out 26 questions, how many do you think came with a left-wing ideological bent?" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell asked Fox News host Sean Hannity on his eponymous program last night.
"Twenty-five out of 26" Bozell informed a stumped Hannity, referring to a study released…

Video: Bozell Discusses Media's Disinterest in Jump in Poverty Under O
September 14th, 2011 10:12 AM
"To the degree" that the jump in the poverty rate in the United States is being reported, it "is being reported as a problem for Obama" and "not a problem caused by Obama," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox Business Network's David Asman on the September 13 edition of "Nightly Scoreboard."
"His policies have nothing to do with the effect," in the minds of liberal journalists, the…

Media Mash: MSNBC Defends Hoffa Edition
September 8th, 2011 11:15 AM
"If Rush Limbaugh or you on your radio show said we have to take out Obama, you know darn well that tomorrow morning every editorial in America would be accusing you of inciting violence," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell said to Fox News host Sean Hannity last night. Yet when James Hoffa said the same thing about Tea Party conservatives, liberal journalists at MSNBC actually defended the…