In an appearance on the Monday edition of the Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan Prime Time, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell blasted “the triumvirate of radical left-wing Hollywood, radical left-wing news reporters, radical left-wing politicians” for jumping to conclusions with the Jussie Smollett case.
Bozell began by calling out the similarities between how the liberal media attacked the Covington kids after the release of a deceptive video and how they latched onto what were already dubious claims by Empire actor Jussie Smollett:
Didn't we just see this movie play about a month ago ahead called Covington? Didn’t we see the exact same thing where somebody made an accusation, in this case, an altered video? And you saw the triumvirate of radical left-wing Hollywood, radical left-wing news reporters, radical left-wing politicians all jumping on the bandwagon to blame not just the President, but his supporters for participating in racist activities. Here we go again.
To drive his point home, Bozell cited MRC studies of the Smollett hoax hate crime and the very real 2017 Facebook Live torture of an autistic white man at the hands of black teens. Between January 29 and February 14, the broadcast networks spent 101 minutes on Smollett’s accusations. When the Facebook Live torture incident first broke, only CBS Evening News covered it with a mere 27 seconds.
Further MRC research published later on Monday night found that Facebook Live torture was there and gone in just four days with the networks spending just 24 minutes on it.
Bozell concluded by demanding to know where and when the liberal media were going to apologize to President Trump and his supporters for smearing them:
Why don't they start condemning themselves? Why isn't there a conversation about these same reporters, these same Hollywood people, these same politicians all jumping on the bandwagon? Why isn't there a story about them? Why aren't they apologizing? Why are they not apologizing? Where are the apologies to the President? Not just from Smollett but all these people who put gasoline on the fire. When are they going to apologize to the President for what they’ve done to him and to his supporters?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2019/02/18/mrcs-bozell-triumvirate-radical-left-wingers-jumped-covington-smollett