MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on Fox Business, Wednesday, to discuss just what Donald Trump might do to go around the biased, liberal press. Bozell zinged, “There is not a thing the man can do for which he will get credit, nothing. Here is a man who could, Donald Trump could find the cure for cancer tomorrow and CBS would report about all a the doctors have been put out of work!”
Bozell suggested, “You have to go around the press. I do believe that there is a time and a place to beat them up but I also think that he needs to also transcend them.”
The MRC President and After the Bell host David Asman described CNN journalist Jim Acosta’s meltdown. Acosta accused the Trump administration of bigotry with its new immigration policy. White House adviser Stephen Miller denounced CNN’s “cosmopolitan bias.”
Of Acosta’s comments, Bozell concluded, “That’s a position that Nancy Pelosi would take or Chuck Schumer, but this is also CNN. What does it tell you about CNN?”
A partial transcript of the segment is below:
After the Bell
8/2/17
4:52DAVID ASMAN: President Trump pushing hard to tackle tax reform and health care, but with a constant negative media coverage droning on and on does need to take a different approach? Joining us now is Brent Bozell, Media Research Center founder. Good to see you. You've been covering the media forever and you know better than anybody, it is now, but it always tilted to the left and ut hates this president. Isn't it time to take a different approach? Don't harp on fake news and take his message directly to the people in a prime time address or something like that?
BRENT BOZELL: There is not a thing, David, there is not a thing the man can do for which he will get credit, nothing. Here is a man who could, Donald Trump could find the cure for cancer tomorrow and CBS would report about all a the doctors have been put out of work. This is just, these are reality. So what do you do? You have to go around the press. I do believe that there is a time and a place to beat them up but I also think that he needs to also transcend them.
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ASMAN: We had this confrontation at the White House press briefing with Jim Acosta from CNN talking to the representative from the Trump campaign. Let’s just play that tape and get your reaction:
ACOSTA: This whole notion of well, they have to learn English before they get to the United States, are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?
STEPHEN MILLER: Jim, I honestly have to say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English.
ACOSTA: It just sounds like you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.
MILLER: Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said and for you that's still a really — the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting.
ACOSTA: I didn’t say it was a racist bill.
ASMAN: We have about ten seconds to wrap this up, but go ahead and button that up.
BOZELL: Very simple: That’s a position that Nancy Pelosi would take or Chuck Schumer, but this is also CNN. What does it tell you about CNN?
