MRC President David Bozell visited WMAL’s O’Connor & Firm on Monday morning to debate what the Sunday speak exhibits (and others) needed to say concerning the assassination of Charlie Kirk final week. Unsurprisingly, Bozell identified a significant blind spot within the networks: a scarcity of somebody who aligned with Charlie Kirk from an ideological perspective:
[Utah] Gov. [Spencer] Cox made the rounds. However no, as a visitor, I’m speaking about why don’t they put a Charlie Kirk on the payroll? Why don’t they rent a David Bozell to be one in every of their analysts? Who don’t they rent a Julie Gunlock or a Patrice Onwuka to be a paid analyst?
O’Connor had teed up Bozell by noting that Republicans “are the dominant political voice in America proper now” with management of Congress and the White Home along with a slew of governors’ places of work, state legislatures and even native places of work.
“Each time the American folks have an opportunity to vote, they vote for us,” O’Connor mentioned. “And but, once you watch the Sunday exhibits on the networks – ABC, NBC, CBS – I believe ABC has Reince Priebus, one particular person on the payroll who’s a pro-Trump Republican. NBC, CBS … you by no means hear our viewpoint and our perspective relayed of their roundtable discussions. They’ve marginalized us and put us in a ghettoized house, as if the message is that our concepts usually are not meant for well mannered dialog on these exhibits.”
Bozell responded by name-checking the common suspects on these packages – none of whom even perceive, not to mention can clarify, the conservative MAGA viewpoint. After they do attempt to “diversify” their panel, they create on individuals who don’t share the MAGA viewpoint and have little interest in explaining it to steadiness out the leftist assaults.
“So, to your level, Meet the Press’s Peter Baker? Lef- wing. Jeffrey Goldberg? Left-wing. Kimberly Atkins-Stohr? Left-wing. Conservative illustration? Sarah Fagan,” Bozell mentioned. “That was on Meet the Press yesterday, three to 1, liberal over conservative. ABC This Week had Donna Brazile, Alex Burns versus the aforementioned Reince Priebus. After which CNN, once they have a conservative, it’s Alyssa Farah or Jonah Goldberg. I imply, give me a break. And on NBC, Stephen Hayes, Trump-hating conservative.”
This refusal to deal with the opposite half of the nation as a official political voice created its personal set of issues for the left. Some who gleefully cheered the dying of Kirk or criticized his work discovered themselves out of a job as their embarrassed corporations scrambled to restrict the harm. Maybe by no means having seen any respect given views that opposed theirs, they assumed they might be as crass about Charlie Kirk as they needed with out penalty.
One such journalist was Matthew Dowd, who was fired by MSNBC after basically saying Kirk’s phrases justified his dying.
“I used to be requested all through that day ought to Matthew Dowd be fired,” Bozell mentioned. “And as soon as he apologized, I assumed I might channel my interior Charlie. Charlie would have accepted the apology and forgiven him and moved on. I nearly want MSNBC had finished the identical, given Matthew Dowd a chance to treatment his feedback on the air, on digicam.”
Dowd’s apology however, Bozell mentioned to not count on a lot enchancment from the media in the way it handles these tales. He mentioned the TV hosts tried to not inflame an excessive amount of, except for Martha Raddatz making an attempt to power Cox to denounce Donald Trump. However that’s on digicam.
Off digicam however on-line, it’s a unique image, he mentioned. “A Washington Submit reporter mainly saying the identical factor that Matthew Dowd instructed, that Charlie had it coming,” Bozell mentioned. “These guys are going off on-line however off digicam to talk fact to energy, because it have been. They despised Charlie Kirk. They despised that he was profitable. They despised that he had a following.”
Bozell additionally defined that Kirk had impressed his personal work: “I believe I can communicate confidently for practically everybody within the conservative motion.”
“I want I had finished the whole lot Charlie did in addition to Charlie did it. I want I had began a conservative operation in addition to Charlie did. I want I might be as prolific a fundraiser as Charlie was. I want I might debate in addition to Charlie did. He had a expertise stack, a talent stack that was one in every of a sort, and he might be sorely missed.”
