On Tuesday, MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on the Fox Business’s Varney & Company to mock the leftist media’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to keep Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot.
After playing a brief montage of hosts and pundits losing their minds over the decision, Stuart Varney threw it to Bozell to comment on the craziness. Varney questioned “Did these people really believe that one state should decide who’s on the ballot in the other 49 states?”
Bozell responded this was another example of Trump breaking the brains of the media elite: “Even left-wingers in the Supreme Court said this is ridiculous and threw it out.” Bozell added that the media reaction was “Trump delusion….They cannot believe this man is still on the ballot.”
Later in the segment Varney and Bozell broke down President Joe Biden’s “new basement strategy” of only talking to friendly media outlets.
VARNEY: The President’s going after Donald Trump in an interview with the New Yorker. He says “losers who are losers are never graceful. I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win if and when I win, I think he’ll contest it no matter what the result is.” Brent, I’m not so concerned about what the president is saying, but why wasn’t this interview on camera?
BOZELL: Yeah, you know, Stuart, I thought the line that Dr. Phil gave — I think it was on a Fox show last week — was perfect. Talking about the medical exam where he refused to take a cognitive test. And Dr. Phil said “anyone who has nothing to hide doesn’t hide anything.” And this man is not just hiding, he’s hiding himself from the American people now. He went to the friendliest of friendly outlets, the New Yorker magazine, that has done puff pieces on him in the past. He went to them where he wasn’t on camera, you couldn’t see him, you couldn’t hear his answers, and that’s the kind of interview he’s going to give.
The following is a transcript of the full segment as aired on Fox Business’s March 5 edition of Varney & Company:
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March 5, 2024HOST STUART VARNEY: The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to keep Trump on the ballot did not sit well with the left-leaning media. Watch this.
[Begin montage]
MSNBC HOST NICOLLE WALLACE: Now the body is — I guess it’s the same body, doesn’t want to deal with the whole insurrection thing, doesn’t want to deal with the extraordinary nature of what Trump did.
PRINCETON PROFESSOR EDDIE GLAUDE: What’s the motivation behind it all? What are the fears that block it, block us from holding this man accountable? It just shows that some people are above the law.
REPRESENTATIVE DONNA EDWARDS: Well, I don’t think it was a big win for America.
DANA BASH: Unfortunately for America, the Court isn’t necessarily wrong that this is the way the framers wanted it to be.
[End montage]
STUART VARNEY: I found it hard to keep a straight face being a member of the media myself. The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell joins me now. Brent, did these people really believe that one state should decide who’s on the ballot in the other 49 states? Is that what they really believe?
MRC PRESIDENT L. BRENT BOZELL: Yeah. This is Trump delusion. Look, look, you know anybody who looked at this case, you didn’t need to be a lawyer to recognize that states don’t have the right to run federal elections. And the fact that it was a 9-0 vote. So many of these votes — have you noticed during the Obama administration — so many of these were 9-0 votes, even left-wingers in the Supreme Court said this is ridiculous and threw it out. Now this is Trump delusion. Another one is that you’re seeing they’re all talking about how the — how Trump is a danger to democracy. Where did this start? It started about two months ago. It’s the echo-chamber. They’re all echoing each other’s words. So right now, you know they’re — it’s like that movie where the heads turn around and explode off the bodies. They cannot believe this man is still on the ballot.
VARNEY: Okay. The President’s going after Donald Trump in an interview with the New Yorker He says “losers who are losers are never graceful. I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win if and when I win, I think he’ll contest it no matter what the result is.” Brent, I’m not so concerned about what the president is saying, but why wasn’t this interview on camera?
BOZELL: Yeah, you know, Stuart, I thought the line that Dr. Phil gave — I think it was on a Fox show last week — was perfect. Talking about the medical exam where he refused to take a cognitive test. And Dr. Phil said “anyone who has nothing to hide doesn’t hide anything.” And this man is not just hiding, he’s hiding himself from the American people now. He went to the friendliest of friendly outlets, the New Yorker magazine, that has done puff pieces on him in the past. He went to them where he wasn’t on camera, you couldn’t see him, you couldn't hear his answers, and that’s the kind of interview he’s going to give.
VARNEY: That’s how it’s done.
BOZELL: No, no, no, the man who — he’s hiding something.
VARNEY: It’s the new basement strategy. Hide him. Brent Bozell, I’m so sorry it’s so short. His stuff is always good. Bring you back soon, okay? Got it.
BOZELL: Thanks Stuart.
