MRC President Brent Bozell on Monday slammed CNBC’s biased presidential debate, mocking it as a "debacle." Appearing on Varney and Co., Bozell attacked, “I think it was a complete debacle for the entire NBC brand and frankly it was probably the final straw. There was like no pretense of objectivity here.”
He continued, “It was intellectual dishonesty because had CNBC presented itself as a network that was going to have serious discussion on economic issues.” Varney and Bozell highlighted a new MRC study finding 65 percent of the questions to be personal insults or ad hominem attacks.
Bozell marveled:
BRENT BOZELL: Think about more than half the questions that are posited to a candidate, personal ad hominem attacks. There shouldn't have been a single one. Yet they were all three moderators were participating in it....But the three who were up there were just doing gotcha personal attacks.
Regarding the fact that ABC, NBC and CBS skipped the latest release of Hillary e-mails on Friday, the MRC president compared the situation to Watergate:
BRENT BOZELL: The new dump of e-mails we're now up to 700 classified e-mails from a secretary of state who said there were no classified e-mails. So she's been lying through her teeth on this. Where's the coverage? Here's the interesting thing. Remember Watergate? And she was on the investigative committee on Watergate You have 18 and a half minutes of missing footage and the media gloomed onto that with this utterly supremely serious investigative mode to get to the bottom of it, led by Woodward and Bernstein. And now the exact opposite. Now, they're actually covering up the cover up. There's no interest whatsoever in finding the truth here.
