The Trump administration has been trying to find a patronage job for former Media Research Center chief and loyal right-winger Brent Bozell, and earlier this year he was named U.S. ambassador to South Africa — a weirdly perfect fit given that he was part of a right-wing coalition in the 1980s to support South Africa’s apartheid government and to oppose the African National Congress’ efforts to end the racist regime, as well as denouncing Nelson Mandela after his 2013 death.
Wonkette has detailed how Bozell — whom it describes as “a racist Furby who looks like Santa Claus after he fell on hard times” — has done on his first couple weeks on the job, and it’s not going well. He spoke at a meeting of South African business leaders , where he spread conspiracy theories about affirmative action laws allegedly hurting white people and white farmers purportedly having their land stolen by the Black-majority government. All this prompted the South African government to summon Bozell to explain himself, which almost never happens in this way.
You will not be surprised to learn that the MRC has not told its readers what its former boss is doing.