MRC president Brent Bozell was interviewed Wednesday on the Fox Business program Varney & Co. about the MRC’s latest numbers on network evening news coverage of the Democratic presidential race. Hillary Clinton has dominated with 80 percent of the coverage, but a majority of it has dealt with her scandals, as Bozell explained.
“Hillary's coverage in the last two months has dealt with, 54 percent of it has dealt with her scandals. So that makes it primarily negative because she doesn't want to be talking about that. But these are events that are out of her control and they're just happening. The FBI has an investigation, and what not. The media are reporting that. But what is interesting to me is Biden and Sanders. In that two month period, Joe Biden's negative coverage 2 percent Bernie Sanders' negative coverage zero, 100% positive,” Bozell told FBN's Charles Payne.
He was amazed at the lack of focus on the ultraliberalism of these candidates: “Bernie Sanders is the most far left candidate potentially in history. There's not been one second devoted to that.”
On Biden, Bozell professed amazement at how Joe Biden has been remade from vicious partisan to lovable grandpa.
“Let's remember, Joe Biden has had a history of being an incredibly nasty politician when he wants to be. Think of Robert Bork, think of the Justice Alito hearings, think of how he made mincemeat out of Paul Ryan in the last [vice presidential] debate, and yet, he has remade himself into this lovable grandfather figure," Bozell said. "The second thing is his gaffes. Dan Quayle must be hitting himself in the head with golf clubs right now. Joe Biden is far more gaffe-prone than Dan Quayle, but it becomes lovable when it was Biden and a sign of idiocy with Dan Quayle. To me it's remarkable he has played this media game brilliantly thus far.”
