MRC’s Bozell Hides Inside The Right-Wing Media Bubble

Posted on December 24, 2024

For someone whose entire career of partisanship is all about demonizing the “liberal media,” Media Rsearch Center chief Brent Bozell appears to be afraid of direct confrontation with them. He typically rants inside the right-wing bubble, making sure his anti-media narratives are reinforced among the faithful — it keeps the rubes indoctrinated and the money rolling in, but he’s just preaching to the choir. Perhaps he knows that he would lose an argument with someone who actually knows how the media works (or has read ConWebWatch). Sometimes he just stays in his offices and makes video rants to be posted on social media. He did this in a Jan. 11 post lovingly described by an anonymous MRC staffer describing how Bozell “spoke in the strongest terms Thursday about the need for the media to denounce and fire journalists joking about assassinating Donald Trump like John F. Kennedy was shot dead in 1963.” The anonymous writer added: “Bozell reminded people of James Hodgkinson, the Bernie Sanders volunteer who shot at a softball practice of House Republicans in 2018, nearly killing Congressman Steve Scalise, as well as Nicholas Roske, arrested in 2022 (armed with a pistol) near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” No mention, of course, of Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue; he was targeting a immigrant aid office there after having been radlicalized into anti-immigrant hate by Fox News and other right-wing media.

The rest of the year, Bozell similarly stayed hermetically sealed inside the right-wing bubble, appearing only on right-wing radio and TV shows where he could be assured of softball questions and absolutely no challenges to his narrative. Here’s a breakdown of where he appeared:

Stuart Varney, Fox Business:

Larry O’Connor, right-wing radio host:

Mark Levin, radio and Fox News host:

Other media appearances:

Videos made in his office:

Bozell also created his own podcast, which similarly remains hidden in the bubble and preaches only to the choir:

We haven’t listened to most of these appearances, but we would be shocked if anyone asked Bozell anything remotely challenging that didn’t serve to further his preferred narrative. That’s why he stays inside the bubble, after all.