The right-wing Heathering of Donald Trump in National Review — starring the Media Research Center’s very own Brent Bozell — has had consequences … but the MRC won’t talk about it.
Nowhere on NewsBusters — the current front page for most MRC activities — is it mention that the Republican National Committee dropped National Review as a sponsor of an upcoming GOP presidential debate.Bozell has apparently issued no statement on the removal he helped provoke — none that his organization saw fit to reprint, anyway.
Ironically, this is the same debate from which the RNC bounced NBC as a sponsor just a few days before — and the MRC couldn’t have been happier about that development.
Bozell rushed out with a statement praising the decision to drop NBC, huffing that “it makes no sense to continue to allow committed left-wingers in the media to decide the nominee of the Republican Party,” citing “the dreadful performance by CNBC’s moderators at the Republican debate in October.” MRC apparatchik Dan Gainor added, “Serves ’em right!”
Of course, neither Bozell, for all its ranting about the purported bias of the CNBC debate, never provided any actual, objective evidence of it.
Given how vocal the MRC was about the RNC kicking out NBC, it’s surprising that it’s been utterly silent about the RNC’s booting of National Review. Apparently, Bozell and Co. doesn’t want to risk provoking the RNC any further.