We’ve noted that in the week following exposure of the fact that Tim Graham ghostwrote Brent Bozell’s syndicated columns, Bozell appeared three times on Fox News and wasn’t asked about it once.
Fox keeps its intellectual incuriosity intact with a March 6 appearance by Bozell on Megyn Kelly’s show in which he, yes, was not asked about the ghostwriting scandal. You won’t hear the MRC crying censorship about this, though.
Bozell did say plenty of other things, however — like that the nonexistent IRS scandal is “worse than Watergate” and makes Iran-Contra look “piddly” in comparison.
Bozell appeared again on Fox on March 10, coming to the defense of Sharyl Attkisson, who just quit CBS News claiming liberal bias. Bozell went into hyperbole mode here as well, claiming that Benghazi is “more important by factor of 100,000” than Chris Christie’s bridge closing scandal. He did not explain how he came up with that number.
But that’s just Bozell running his mouth — which he knows he can do on Fox because he will never be asked challenging or embarrassing questions about his own work.
Why is that? Does he have an agreement with Fox that he will never be asked about it? It sure seems that way.
Would Bozell tolerate such evasion of a journalistic scandal if he was a liberal and was making repeated appearances on MSNBC without being asked about it? Doubtful.