MRC’s Bozell Addresses Media’s Closing Campaign Pitch: Bashing the Tea Party
November 1, 2010 No Comment
NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell appeared on last night's special Sunday edition of “Hannity” to address what's easily become the liberal media's closing campaign tactic for liberal Democrats: attempting to discredit the Tea Party movement and its candidates. For example, in an October 26 interview with former president Jimmy Carter, Chris Matthews suggested Tea Partiers are simply the mindless dupes of corporate interests. “Remember the 'poor, uneducated and easy to command types?'” Bozell asked Hannity. To the liberal media, “[t]hat was the religious right 20 years ago. Now it's the Tea Party,” Bozell noted on the October 31 “Media Mash” segment: read more
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