Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. Wednesday morning, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hammered the leftist media for refusing to cover numerous bad news stories during President Biden’s disastrous first year in office. Bozell called out Biden for lying on multiple topics and wondered when anyone in the liberal press would call out the President’s dishonesty.
“Brent, how did the media cover his first year, which was full of crises and failures?,” anchor Stuart Varney asked. Referring to Biden’s upcoming press conference marking the first year of his presidency, Bozell joked: “...he’s spending two days preparing, for what? He’s going to read a teleprompter, then he’s gonna turn his back and say. ‘My staff told me I’ve gotta leave now.’ There’s nothing this man needs to prepare for.”
He then listed all of the Biden administration failures that have been ignored by a complicit left-wing media:
How the media cover him – you know, if the media were doing their job, they would be reporting today the list of deceitful statements he’s going to make. What are some of the things that the media have not covered all year? The one thing they’ve covered is Afghanistan and the debacle in Afghanistan. They had to, the entire world was watching, so they had to cover that.
But look at the things that they’re not covering, the absolute dysfunction of the CDC that does not know what it’s doing it its policies are destroying a generation of young people. The absolute arrogance of unions, of teachers’ unions, who are not allowing children to be taught. The fact that the President lied when he said, looking right at the camera, that $3.5 billion in spending wasn't going to cost anything. The fact that he said only the super-rich were going to be taxed. Under his plans, everyone’s going to be taxed. The fact that his energy policies – his own energy policies – have caused those $4.50 and $5 a gallon prices that you’re seeing now.
Bozell then singled out Biden’s wildly offensive rhetoric regarding radical voting legislation being pushed by Democrats: “...my most favorite one that they won’t cover is the voting rights debate. What voting rights do we need? Where am I going to see the very first story where someone’s gonna say there’s not one person in the United States of America whose voting rights were taken away? Not one, not one.”
Varney then noted how Biden’s “Atlanta speech on voting rights was a disaster, but White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is again defending the President and that speech.” After playing a soundbite of Psaki laughably claiming the address – in which Biden compared opponents to George Wallace and Jefferson Davis – “was not a partisan speech,” Varney remarked: “Please, not partisan? He compared Republicans to segregationists.”
Bozell slammed Biden’s incendiary tirade: “That was one of the ugliest speeches I’ve ever heard. He is trying to divide this country racially and calling people racist in order to do that....I think it’s deplorable.”
Here is a full transcript of the January 19 segment:
11:20 AM ET
STUART VARNEY: Now look who’s here, Brent Bozell. Our media guy of the morning. Brent, how did the media cover his first year, which was full of crises and failures?
BRENT BOZELL: I think it’s very interesting how that last segment ended, that he’s spending two days preparing, for what? He’s going to read a teleprompter, then he’s gonna turn his back and say. “My staff told me I’ve gotta leave now.” There’s nothing this man needs to prepare for.
How the media cover him – you know, if the media were doing their job, they would be reporting today the list of deceitful statements he’s going to make. What are some of the things that the media have not covered all year? The one thing they’ve covered is Afghanistan and the debacle in Afghanistan. They had to, the entire world was watching, so they had to cover that.
But look at the things that they’re not covering, the absolute dysfunction of the CDC that does not know what it’s doing it its policies are destroying a generation of young people. The absolute arrogance of unions, of teachers’ unions, who are not allowing children to be taught. The fact that the President lied when he said, looking right at the camera, that $3.5 billion in spending wasn't going to cost anything. The fact that he said only the super-rich were going to be taxed. Under his plans, everyone’s going to be taxed. The fact that his energy policies – his own energy policies – have caused those $4.50 and $5 a gallon prices that you’re seeing now.
And then, what I love so much, my most favorite one that they won’t cover is the voting rights debate. What voting rights do we need? Where am I going to see the very first story where someone’s gonna say there’s not one person in the United States of America whose voting rights were taken away? Not one, not one.
VARNEY: You know exactly what they are gonna cover on a daily basis, and that’s January the 6th. They’ll never leave that alone because it’s the only thing they’ve got.
BOZELL: Yes. “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.” The legacy of Donald Trump is they can’t stop attacking Donald Trump.
VARNEY: That’s his legacy. Look, I thought that the Atlanta speech on voting rights was a disaster, but White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is again defending the President and that speech. Just watch this please.
JOE BIDEN: So I ask every elected official in America, how do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?!
JEN PSAKI: It was not a partisan speech. It was intended to lay out for the public exactly what’s at stake and layout for elected officials what’s at stake.
VARNEY: Please, not partisan? He compared Republicans to segregationists. Have at it, Brent.
BOZELL: That was one of the ugliest speeches I’ve ever heard.
VARNEY: Yes, agreed.
BOZELL: He is trying to divide this country racially and calling people racist in order to do that. What’s happening here? His base, his black base, is starting to leave the Democratic Party. If more – if a very small percentage more leave, the Democratic Party is in ruins and they know it. So they’re desperately trying to keep that bleeding by calling whites racist and by calling Republicans racist. I think it’s deplorable – talk about deplorable. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard a President of the United States stoop so low with personal attacks.
VARNEY: Agreed. Let’s see what comes up this afternoon. I’ll be watching, you’ll be watching, the world will be watching I suspect. Brent Bozell, thank you sir, see you soon.
BOZELL: Thank you, Stuart.
