MRC President Brent Bozell on Wednesday slammed the “arrogant, haughty attitude” of the press in 2016, deriding the biased presidential coverage in favor of Hillary Clinton. Talking to Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Bozell compared, “Their attitude about global warming, the attitude about gay rights, which is to say ‘you can only have one position’ and [journalists are] taking it to the presidential campaign.”
Regarding a media slant towards Clinton, the MRC president attacked, “The public can't stand this arrogant, haughty press attitude, Washington, D.C. attitude. Every time they see one of these elitists attacking Donald Trump, he gets stronger.”
Bozell underlined just how bad the coverage has been: “Donald Trump has gotten overwhelmingly negative coverage. Fact. That means he's the most negatively covered Republican candidate in history. Fact.”
The MRC's President asserted that this attitude is only “making [Trump] stronger.”
Maybe this is why a new Gallup poll found that trust in the press has sunk “to a new low.”
A transcript of the Bozell appearance on Fox News is below:
Your World With Neil Cavuto
9/14/16
4:10
NEIL CAVUTO: Josh Earnest a bit dismissive of the Dr. Oz thing. But I’m thinking to myself, and this happens sometimes, Self, isn't this the same administration that's gone on a number of entertainment shows, internet shows, which is all fine. But it was okay and not laughable then, maybe laughable now that Donald Trump goes on, well, Dr. Oz. The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell noticed maybe a bit of strangeness of that. What do you think, Brent?
BRENT BOZELL: Well, it is. You see the way this all has been covered this year. You just don't know what is up and what is down. The media — I'm seeing something, Neil, that I don't think I've ever seen before, where the media have taken — I'm going to a tangent here, their attitude about global warming, the attitude about gay rights, which is to say “You can only have one position” and taking it to the presidential campaign. Look how they beat up Matt Lauer for having the audacity simply to ask a tough question of Donald Trump [sic, Hillary Clinton]. And now look at the reports that are saying — where they're saying Donald Trump, and even the president is saying Donald Trump is skirting away with easy press coverage. In fact, I think it’s fair to say—
CAVUTO: You mentioned the difference here in the coverage of one or the other and when they appear on a given show, but for the President to tilt it in another way, to say it's a very different kind of media reaction to him. Listen to this.
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BARACK OBAMA: Look, I'm not running this time. But I sure do get frustrated with the way this campaign is covered. You don't grade the presidency on a curve. This is serious business. We can't afford to suddenly treat this like a reality show.
CAVUTO: All right now. The President has appeared on reality shows, and that's fine. I’m just saying, leaving it aside from what you're position is, he doth protest too much. I read the press like you do and I see a lot of critical dismissive articles of Donald Trump. So I think he's getting closely scrutinized and ripped apart, in the press session just now, laughed at.
BOZELL: Neil, look at this. Just think about this: Donald Trump is the most covered Republican in modern history. Fact. Donald Trump has gotten overwhelmingly negative coverage. Fact. That means he's the most negatively covered Republican candidate in history. Fact. And that's not good enough for Barack Obama. What they're saying is we want complete, complete negativity towards him and how dare you criticize me. I mean, it's a stunning attitude that they would take Christiane Amanpour took that position where, “how dare you criticize Hillary Clinton?” Jorge Ramos took the position, “How dare we not criticize Donald Trump?” And they are reporters.
CAVUTO: All I know is I don’t care what people’s positions. I see him laughed at, dismissed, chuckling the asides, the wave of the hands, the top economists who like to rip apart his budget plans, the Oxford study that the media pounces on to says he doesn't know anything about trade or, for that matter, the environment. I have a feeling —
BOZELL: Neil, it's making him stronger. I'm telling you, it's making him stronger.
CAVUTO: Well, obviously something has resulted in these poll numbers. Yeah.
BOZELL: The media — the public can't stand this arrogant, haughty press attitude, Washington, D.C. attitude. Every time they see one of these elitists attacking Donald Trump, he gets stronger.
