The Media Research Center has completely censored any mention of the arrest, conviction and sentencing to prison of Brent “Zeeker” Bozell IV, son of the MRC’s leader, Brent Bozell III — but that doesn’t mean that Bozell doesn’t want to talk about it. Bozell wrote an expanded version of his whiny, victimhood-laden Twitter/X post, which was published not at any MRC website but at the right-wing Daily Signal and, interestingly, the far-right WorldNetDaily, which also publishes columns by MRC executive Tim Graham (who may very well have ghostwritten it) and Terry Jeffrey, editor of the MRC’s now-defunct “news” division, CNSNews.com. Bozell began with a bit of whataboutism that he also repeated in his tweet:
In the summer of 2020, America was in flames as Antifa and Black Lives Matter set fire to city after city—Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and so many more.
Police stations were torched and dozens of officers were injured as all manner of projectiles, from rocks to Molotov cocktails, were hurled at them. Dozens of people died. The damage was estimated at over $1.2 billion, the highest in history.
In January of 2021, the Biden administration came to town. With 35,000 FBI agents and support personnel at his disposal, and armed with an annual $10.8 billion budget, President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, had everything he needed to bring the criminals to bear.
But there was no outrage from the Justice Department. Instead, with a lonely exception here and there, there was silence. Tens of thousands—perhaps hundreds of thousands—of crimes across the country never have been nor ever will be prosecuted. New York City is paying rioters $13 million in reparations for arresting them. Many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating similar settlements.
Perhaps it’s because Biden’s Justice Department had other priorities. It has been obsessed with putting in prison anyone and everyone who participated in the “insurrection” of Jan. 6.
As we pointed out then, those protesters receiving a settlement from New York City were peaceful, likely didn’t commit any crimes and were subject to brutality techniques by police. Bozell didn’t explain why he’s demanding that people be punished for crimes they didn’t commit. Further, numerous people have, in fact, been prosecuted and sent to prison for their actions during the 2020 unrest; Bozell is lying by suggesting that nobody has.
In referring to his son’s prosecution, Bozell ramped up the victimhood and whataboutism:
My son does not belong to any political group. His only organized involvement during the 2020 elections was with a local church group that met daily to pray the rosary for America. But like tens of millions of other Americans, my son believed the 2020 presidential election had been stolen. So, on Jan. 6 he traveled to Washington and joined with over 100,000 other patriots to show their support for the man they believed had won and deserved to be certified.
But then things went wrong, and he was part of it. He entered the Capitol after breaking two windows. Ultimately, he was arrested and charged. He accepted responsibility for these felony offenses as well as other ancillary misconduct. But when he would not plead guilty to the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding—as unconstitutional a charge as there ever was, and one which is about to be tossed out by the Supreme Court—the Biden Justice Department unloaded.
Without the obstruction charge, the Jan. 6 “insurrection” narrative would be vaporized. The vast majority of protesters would be no guiltier than the hundreds of pro-Hamas protesters who stormed the Capitol last October; or Code Pink protesters who regularly disrupt congressional hearings; or even Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who tripped a fire alarm (and lied about it) to prevent a House vote. All who committed those infractions were charged with misdemeanors and paid meaningless fines.
Were justice equally distributed, my son would be similarly guilty, with an additional punishment for breaking two windows. One could project probation and financial restitution. But this is Joe Biden’s Justice Department, and we knew that would not be enough.
But my son did interact with the police that day.
The prosecution had access to and had watched other video footage from that day. One clip showed my son bringing water to an officer suffering from tear gas. A second video showed my son successfully commanding a menacing rioter to sheath his baseball bat after he’d ignored similar demands from an endangered police officer. There exists also footage showing my son helping yet another police officer to his feet after being knocked over.
This meant nothing to the “Justice” Department. It wanted a felony conviction, and when it got it, this out-of-control federal agency went for more—far more. As the sentencing date approached, it pinned yet another charge: terrorism enhancement. The Biden administration now wanted the court to equate my son, whose most serious crime ever was a traffic offense, to Osama bin Laden. It argued the applicable sentencing range was 22-27 years in prison.
As Bozell almost certainly knows, alleged good deeds do not negate alleged bad deeds. Contrary to Bozell’s attempt at whitewashing his son’s behavior, the judge had previously ruled that Bozell IV was “leaning toward the officers with his head down” and “forcibly” made contact with officers as the mob charged a police line. He also found that Bozell IV repeatedly lied on the stand about his conduct — specifically, that “Many of his explanations of his conduct before and on January 6 defy both the video evidence and common sense — something that Bozell pere is completely silent on, and something that likely played a role in the length of his sentence.
Further, Bozell IV didn’t merely “break two windows” — he picked up a metal object and “used the object to smash two windows near the Senate Wing Door while rioters around him were similarly attempting to break their way in, and then he climbed in through one of these windows immediately thereafter,” meaning that his “claim of a spontaneous decision to enter the Capitol building only after the windows were smashed is simply not credible.” Bozell III was also silent on the fact that he went on TV to justify the riot his son took part in as an “explosion of pent-up outrage from Middle America” — apparently acquiescing to his son’s demands to not criticize it.
Bozell concluded by lamenting that his reputation as a right-wing bigwig didn’t save his son from the consequences of his actions, which he chose to portray as his son receiving extra punishment because of that name:
Why did they go to such extremes against my son, to include inventing crimes and wanting him declared a terrorist?
This was not a pursuit of justice by a prosecution governed by principle. In Biden’s America, justice has no home for those who challenge it. This was a political prosecution using the full force of the federal government because my son, Leo Brent Bozell IV, carries his father’s name, and his father has influence and is supporting President Donald Trump in 2024. Ends justify means, and they will stop at nothing.
A criminal investigation into this corrupt Justice Department is long overdue. Those who have corrupted it know that in a new Trump administration, their days are numbered.
In summary: Bozell endorsed a violent attempted insurrection (even if he won’t use that word to describe it), his son took part in it, and how he’s whining that justice was done and that his name offered no protection. Talk about right-wing victimhood and entitlement.