During an appearance on Wednesday’s edition of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel (FNC), Media Research Center Brent Bozell and host Megyn Kelly eviscerated the media for their double standard in rushing to cover unsubstantiated rape allegations surrounding 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump but not, among others, the Bill Clinton-Juanita Brodderick case.
Following an introduction by Kelly and an interview with an unauthorized Trump biographer, Bozell immediately began ripping into the media for committing “a raging hypocrisy” and carrying out “a double standard” concerning the claims that Trump raped his first wife two decades ago.
While the media have been covering the Trump, Bozell demanded:
Where’s the coverage of Juanita Broaddrick if all this is true? Where are the media who think that this is suddenly so important and the big difference is that you had an accusation against Bill Clinton affirmed by the alleged victim and now an accusation denied by the alleged victim. So, start covering Juanita Broddrick and then, media, then get on your high horse.
Kelly agreed and reminded viewers that this applies “when it comes up about Bill Clinton” as “we are told to move on.” Bozell further tore into the liberal media by running through the media’s treatment of three Clinton scandals compared to those involving George W. Bush and Mitt Romney:
Well, Whitewater? Move on. Juanita Broddrick? Move on. Monica Lewinski? Move on. That’s where we got the name “move on.” Now look at the Republicans. George Bush and the National Guard? That story was 30 years old and it covered the newspapers. Mitt Romney and his haircut? 50 years old, front-page news and now this which is more than 25 years old. What a double standard.
After Kelly showed exasperation at the fact that some media types believe that “this opens the door to a discussion about rape and Republicans,” Bozell blasted this “disgusting” and “absolutely heinous” suggestion that Trump should be placed “alongside Bill Cosby.”
Maintaining that he’s “not here as a Trump spokesman,” Bozell emphasized that “this is unfair and this is what’s going to happen” to “every single conservative who comes to the lead in this campaign.”
Before Bozell concluded that “[t]his is why the networks all have a trust record of under 10 percent right now,” Kelly made this point about the electorate: “When the voters feel that a man has been targeted unfairly or a woman for that matter as we saw with Sarah Palin, they will rally behind that person.”
