Making his latest appearance on the Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell told host Stuart Varney Thursday that the liberal media are the ones “trying to sow chaos” and interfere in our elections, not GOP front-runner and former President Donald Trump.
The comment came in reference to Varney noting that, on the charge of Trump being the cause of political “chaos,” one should realize it’s the “the media” who’ve “create[d] an awful lot of chaos deliberately and unscrupulously for Trump.”
Bozell concurred, noting they’ve never “let up, by the way, one bit” seeing as how he’s told Varney about our years of NewsBusters studies “about how the media, while he was a candidate and while he was President, on a regular basis, 90, 95 percent monthly — no matter how good the news was — attacks on Donald Trump.”
Not surprisingly, Bozell pointed out it’s happening “again in the [2024] campaign” with the tail end of last year on ABC, CBS, and NBC’s evening newscast emitting “91 percent negative coverage” on Trump.
“[T]hey are trying to sow chaos...[I]f I were advising Donald Trump, I would simply say go to the American people, basically with the Reagan version of morning in America, simply say this is how I left the presidency...Here is where we are today. If you call that chaos, then you want Joe Biden. If you don’t...vote for me,” he added.
Moments later, Bozell closed out by surmising “I don’t think anybody in the Biden administration has pushed a shopping cart in the last four years” or “pump[ed] their own gas” to see what pricing has been like. And, if they have, they probably “make over $200,000,” so it “might now affect” them.
Between this and what’s going on in the foreign policy realm, Bozell concluded, “the wheels have come off this administration.”
The interview began with Bozell being asked to weigh in on Vice President Kamala Harris’s softball sitdown Wednesday on ABC’s The View, which framed the 2024 election is one versus competence from Biden versus chaos with Trump.
Bozell suggested Trump challenge Biden to a debate on competency as Americans would see “he doesn’t even know where his secretary of defense is while there are two wars going on,” how often “he brags about Bidenomics” or that “the border is secure” when millions are “invad[ing] this country.”
To see the relevant transcript from January 18, click “expand.”
FBN’s Varney & Company
January 18, 2023
11:30 a.m. EasternSTUART VARNEY: I want to get away from the markets back to politics, which is actually my bread and butter. Vice Presidenture [sic] — Vice President Kamala Harris — she says the next election comes down to competence versus chaos. Watch this.
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS [on ABC’s The View, 01/17/23]: There’s a split screen that you can throw up and see. And it’s going to be the choice between what is about respecting the democracy, what is about competence versus chaos versus someone that’s called those who would attack our Capitol and try and undo the votes of millions of Americans in a presidential race and dare calling those who committed acts of violence patriots?
VARNEY: Well, we got a lot to go at right there and Brent Bozell is the man to go at it. Alright, Brent, competence as in Biden, chaos as in Trump. Would you like to comment on that?
BRENT BOZELL: You know, if I was advising Donald Trump, I would invite Joe Biden on Joe Biden’s own terms on this subject for a national debate because he might point out that the commander in chief is so competent he doesn’t even know where his secretary of defense is while there are two wars going on. We — he is — he is so competent, he brags about Bidenomics, which — which is an absolute disaster. He’s so competent he brags about how the border is secure when we now know estimated eight million illegal aliens invaded this country — at the very least, eight million. So, yeah, I think there ought to be a debate about competency. It won’t go well.
VARNEY: But would you debate the other side of their coin, which is chaos? The implication —
BOZELL: Sure, sure.
VARNEY: — that Trump brings chaos and my position and your media watcher is it was the media create an awful lot of chaos deliberately and unscrupulously for Trump. They did it.
BOZELL: The — the media — the media have not let up, by the way, one bit. You and I have commented for years about how the media, while he was a candidate and while he was President, on a regular basis, 90, 95 percent monthly — no matter how good the news was — attacks on Donald Trump. We’re looking at it again — again in the campaign. Last month, 90 — I think of last year, 91 percent negative coverage. No, they are trying to sow chaos. But look, again, if I were advising Donald Trump, I would simply say go to the American people, basically with the Reagan version of morning in America, simply say this is how I left the presidency when I left in January of 2021. Here is where we are today. If you call that chaos, then you want Joe Biden. If you don’t — if you want what I had, then just vote for me again.
VARNEY: But that’s — that’s right. That’s exactly what we are seeing, the — the split screen — four years of Trump and successes and the three years of Biden and the lack of success. That’s the split screen that people are paying attention to, I think. Last word to you.
BOZELL: Well, I think — I think if you go to the grocery store — look, I don’t think anybody in the Biden administration has pushed a shopping cart in the last four years because if you went to the grocery store and saw the prices of it. Now, you know, if you make over $200,000 like so many of these do, it might not — might now affect you. But if you’re on an hourly wage, for them to suggest things are going well — I mean, it’s just — it’s just disastrous. I don’t think they go to the gas pumps and pump their own gas. To see — they say the prices have gone down. But, in fact, they’re still sky high compared to how it was when Joe Biden came to office. So, no, no, no, the national security scene, what’s going on overseas, the — the Houthis bombing America and us barely doing anything about it. You know, the wheel have come off this administration.
VARNEY: Yes, they really have. Brent, all good stuff. Thank you for being with us again today. Always appreciate it, you know? Come and see us soon.
BOZELL: Thank you.
VARNEY: Yes, sir.
BOZELL: Thank you.
