MRC founder and president Brent Bozell appeared Tuesday morning on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. to chat with host Stu Varney about the latest MRC study exposing the legacy media’s (ABC, CBS, NBC) insanely distorted coverage of the 2024 campaign.
Varney cued up Bozell to discuss one of the staggering findings: “Brent, your company says 84 percent of Harris’ media coverage has been positive, 89 percent of Trump’s coverage is negative. Clearly, the media is covering up for Harris.”
Bozell buttressed the number with how the media are letting Harris get away with a “basement” strategy: “She hasn’t done a press conference in a month now….The answer that she’s given, I think, is for the ages. Where she promised to do an interview by the end of the month. As if somehow that’s sufficient. But what gets me on this is that the media have gone along with it.”
Bozell added that journalists “Are completely at ease with the fact that she is slapping them and saying, ‘I won’t do an interview with anybody.’ Why? They despise Donald Trump….They know that she’s not ready for primetime either. They know why she’s in the basement. They know why she doesn’t want to do interviews, because the American people will be horrified by her positions.”
Bozell then highlighted one of the stunning numbers from MRC’s latest poll: “Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea that Kamala Harris’ position [that] it ought not to be a crime to cross the border illegally. In other words, her position is wide open borders, America should be the world’s parking lot. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea. What would happen, what would happen, Stuart, if Democrats simply knew that one fact? If the media simply reported that one fact? I can guarantee you that Donald Trump would be up by 20 points.”
The following is the full segment as it was aired on the August 20 edition of Fox Business’s Varney & Company:
HOST STU VARNEY: Biden’s farewell speech was pushed back to 11:30 pm Eastern time. He kept talking until well after midnight. Media Research Center president Brent Bozell is with me now. How does this look, a sitting president, pushed out of primetime and having to talk after midnight? How’s that look?
L. BRENT BOZELL: Well, if you wanted him inside of primetime, you got him inside of prime time. This was done deliberately. Look, Stuart, people who are wiser than me have pointed out that they knew exactly what was going to happen when Joe Biden debated Donald Trump, which is why they scheduled it early. They knew he was going to mess it up because of his age, and they knew he would get pushed out. It’s those same people who were scared to death of him speaking on primetime television last night. Because, unfortunately, you don’t know what he’s going to say or how he’s going to come across. So that’s why they put him after primetime. They can use any excuse they want to. He’s President of the United States. If the President wants to be inside of primetime, you put him inside of primetime.
VARNEY: Brent, your company says 84 percent of Harris’ media coverage has been positive, 89 percent of Trump’s coverage is negative. Clearly, the media is covering up for Harris.
BOZELL: Yeah. Look, there’s so much talk about, on Fox, about the fact that she hasn’t done a press conference in a month now since she came out and announced her presidential campaign. The answer that she’s given, I think, is for the ages. Where she promised to do an interview by the end of the month. As if somehow that’s sufficient. But what gets me on this is that the media have gone along with it. They are completely at ease with the fact that she is slapping them and saying, ‘I won’t do an interview with anybody.’ Why? They despise Donald Trump, and if that’s what it takes — look, they know, they know that she’s not ready for primetime either. They know why she’s in the basement. They know why she doesn’t want to do interviews, because the American people will be horrified by her positions. Which is why there’s — and that’s a separate study that we did on them, where the media have given no coverage to her positions and the public has no idea what her positions are.
Just want to give you one number. If you think about the border, it’s the number two issue in America today. People are worried sick about people pouring over the borders. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea that Kamala Harris’ position on that is it ought not to be a crime to cross the border illegally. In other words, her position is wide open borders, America should be the world’s parking lot. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have no idea. What would happen, what would happen, Stuart, if Democrats simply knew that one fact? If the media simply reported that one fact? I can guarantee you that Donald Trump would be up by 20 points.
VARNEY: Do not hold your breath, Brent Bozell. Do not do that because it probably ain’t gonna happen. Brent, thanks for being with us this morning.
