From a Jan. 11 Media Research Center press release:
The Media Research Center (MRC) announced on Thursday that prominent conservative Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West, USA, Ret. has been named a Senior Fellow at the MRC to support its mission to expose and neutralize liberal media bias.
In addition to his 22 years in the United States Army, Lt. Colonel West’s extensive career includes representing Florida’s 22nd District in the 112th United States Congress and serving as Executive Director to the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, TX. He is a Fox News contributor, Townhall.com contributing columnist, and member of the NRA’s Board of Directors.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement Thursday welcoming Colonel Allen West to the MRC team:
“I am thrilled to have Colonel West working with our team here at the Media Research Center. Like many of us, he has witnessed the liberal media’s hypocrisy and bias first hand. West brings an extremely knowledgeable and unique perspective that will serve the MRC and our supporters well. We are incredibly fortunate to have a respected conservative like Colonel West fighting alongside us. I am very eager to begin working with him.”
Statement by LTC Allen B. West, USA, Ret.:
I’ve long admired the work of Brent Bozell and the MRC. This is personal for me. The news media have a clear leftist agenda which stands in direct conflict with the values conservatives cherish most and which I fought to protect. I’m thrilled to be part of the MRC and its vital mission to expose the liberal media’s radical agenda.
Note that the only experience the MRC cites for West in the relevant area of media criticism is that, in Bozell’s words, “he has witnessed the liberal media’s hypocrisy and bias first hand.” In reality, this means West is mad that the media accurately reported the anti-liberal, anti-media, anti-Muslim and other various and sundry crazy things he says. And he has said a lot of them. (Remember when West bizarrely attacked President Obama as a “usurper” and a “charlatan”?)
You might remember that West was one of the members of Accuracy in Media’s little “Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi” kangaroo court, best known for having Wayne Simmons — an actual charlatan and fraud who invented an entire CIA career that got him on Fox News as a commentator — as a fellow member than for any of the dubious conclusions it reached. We noticed that didn’t make the MRC’s bio for West.
The same day the MRC made this announcement, its “news” division CNSNews.com published a lengthy column by West in which he ranted that “The left has an all-out assault to undermine and delegitimize the Judeo-Christian faith heritage and God the Creator in that faith heritage,” spurred by a right-wing media report that an “elite liberal arts college” is hosting a class on “queering the Bible.” The headline of the column sets the tone: “Who’s Gonna Stand Up, Denounce This Crap…Only Me?”
Putting political screeds before relevant experience? Sounds like West will fit in just fine at the MRC.