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Gov. Ron DeSantis

"No question that media have an agenda, and MRC has pointed this out, I think, very appropriately for a number of years."

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Lt. Col. Allen West

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Sean Hannity

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Larry O’Connor

WMAL Mornings

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Cal Thomas

Syndicated Columnist

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Marjorie Dannenfelser

President, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

“Without MRC’s Free Speech America project, Big Tech giants like Google would go virtually unchallenged as they tilt the scales in favor of their friends in the Big Abortion lobby.”

Tom Fitton

President Judicial Watch

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Sen. Marco Rubio

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Sen. Mike Lee

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Mike Pence

Former Vice President

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Director, Heritage Tech Policy Center

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Rachael Slobodien

Communications Director, Mike Pence for President

"We applaud MRC’s work for shining a light on Google’s continued bias against conservatives. Google’s actions to censor conservative Republicans like Mike Pence demonstrate that Big Tech giants aren’t remotely interested in an open exchange of ideas."

Brigitte Gabriel

Founder, ACT for America

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Mark Levin

Author, National Radio and TV Host

“MRC is a North Star for the conservative movement. No one talks about objective media because they know, thanks to the work of the MRC, there’s no such thing. Only the MRC has the know-how, the resources, and the dedication to track liberal bias 24/7. I rely on them all the time.”

Hon. Jim DeMint

Founder of the Conservative Partnership Institute

“MRC does such fantastic work, but more importantly, Brent and his people are building an entire conservative movement, an American movement.”

Steve Forbes

Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media

“Before the emergence of talk radio, before Fox News…there was Brent Bozell. The MRC pioneered an entire cottage industry that effectively holds the national media accountable before the public. The exponential growth of alternative media owes a lot to MRC.”

Trace Gallagher

Fox News Anchor

“I want to praise the work that you (Brent Bozell) and your team have done at the Media Research Center for breaking the story about George Soros having his fingerprints on media organizations around the world.”

Fred Barnes

Political Commentator

"Nobody exposes inaccuracy, sensationalism, and liberal bias in the mainstream press like Brent Bozell and his media sleuths at the Media Research Center. Their work is heroic.”

Kellyanne Conway

Political Consultant

“MRC has been a consistent shot of truth and light against an attempted, collective takedown of conservatism.”

Ken Blackwell

Senior Fellow, Family Research Council

“The Media Research Center is a beacon of light in a sea of media darkness … MRC is a great force for evening the playing field so that we can engage civically and politically in honest and forceful debate.”

David Bossie

President of Citizens United

“Brent Bozell and your team at MRC are the groundbreaking forces that have brought to light all of the left’s attempts through the media to really overcome the conservative movement since Ronald Reagan. I don’t know how we would get along without it.”

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/worse-than-watergate-how-the-right-uses-disinformation-to-generate-outrage-and-conspiracy-theories/

last week, the right-wing Media Research Center released a report featuring theprovocative title, “How Biden’s DHS Is Weaponizing an Anti-Terror Program Against Christians, Conservatives & the GOP.”  As the title suggested, the report claimed that the federal government is “being used to target the entire spectrum of the political right and Christians,” specifically groups like “The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Christian Broadcasting Network, Turning Point USA, PragerU, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Republican National Committee.”

The central claim of the report is false, but it has proved irresistible to the right-wing political and media machine that thrives on generating bogus narratives about the supposed political persecution of conservatives.

The report focused on a grant made by the Department of Homeland Security through its “Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program,” which provides funding to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education “to establish or enhance capabilities to prevent targeted violence and terrorism.”

One of the recipients of a TVTP grant was the University of Dayton, which MRC alleged then used the funding to launch a program known as “PREVENTS-OH,” through which it allegedly held a seminar linking mainstream conservative organizations to neo-Nazi groups.

The University of Dayton used grants from TVTP to create the infamous PREVENTS-OH program, which in turn hosted a series of events that maliciously equated mainstream organizations with neo-nazis and other extremist hate groups.

One of the first PREVENTS-OH events was a seminar called “Extremism, Rhetoric, and Democratic Precarity.” The seminar featured analysis from several so-called extremism experts who recklessly tied conservatives, Christians and Republicans to genocide and terrorism. Among the speakers were DHS Agent Joseph “J.R.” Masztalics a Regional Prevention Coordinator at CP3—who appeared in his official capacity at the event—and University of Cincinnati researcher Michael Loadenthal, a self-proclaimed member of a radical, anti-American group.

During the seminar, Loadenthal shared an outrageous ” that he claimed depicts the “modern far-right” and extremism in America.

Among the organizations and movements displayed on the pyramid were the Republican Party (RNC), The Heritage Foundation, the American Conservative Union, Fox News, Breitbart News, the National Rifle Association (NRA), PragerUniversity, Tea Party Patriots, the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement and the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Also on the pyramid, as if somehow comparable to the aforementioned reputable organizations and movements, were rabidly hateful groups like the militant neo-Nazi gang The Base and pro-Nazi publication:{The Daily Stormer:(style="box-sizing:border-box;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:.

Right-wing media outlets immediately seized upon the “outrageous” Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization to allege that the Biden administration is using the TVTP grant program to “target” conservatives.

MRC’s founder and president Brent Bozell appeared on TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s podcast last Friday todemand a “criminal investigation” into the grant....[vid]

There has to be, I think, a criminal investigation into what the Department of Homeland Security is doing with federal funds,weaponizing the most radical left-wing government in the history of this nation to shut down anybody who doesn’t toe the narrative with them,” Bozell declared. “That includes the Republican Party, that includes the conservative movement, and that now includes Christians.”

Kirk readily agreed that “this is a smoking gun” and declaring that the supposed scandal is “worse than Watergate.”

Unfortunately for Kirk, Bozell, and the rest of the right-wing movement, the central component of MRC’s report is wrong.

As the links contained in MRC’s own report make clear, the seminar at which the Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization was shown took place in December 2021. The University of Dayton did not receive the TVTP grant until September 2022.

The university then used the grant to launch its PREVENTS-OH program, meaning that MRC’s assertion that “the University of Dayton used grants from TVTP to create the infamous PREVENTS-OH program, which in turn hosted a series of events that maliciously equated mainstream organizations with neo-nazis and other extremist hate groups” could not possibly be true.

Even Fox News essentially debunked MRC’s allegations in an article that nevertheless blindly echoed those claims.

According to DHS, the University of Dayton was not a TVTP grantee at the time of the seminar and received a grant the following year — when the department was already aware of what was presented at the event. A DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the award was unrelated to the seminar and rejected the notion that it supports any form of discrimination.

“This seminar was not funded, organized, or hosted by the Department of Homeland Security,” the spokesperson said. “Similarly, the presented chart was not developed, presented, or endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security,and was not part of any successful grant application to the Department of Homeland Security.DHS does not profile, target, or discriminate against any individual for exercising their constitutional rights protected by the First Amendment.”

The University of Dayton similarly described the seminar as being separate from the PREVENTS-OH program.

“The speakers at the programs referred to in the Media Research Center’s report are from the University of Dayton Human Rights Center’s Social Practice of Human Rights Conference in the fall of 2021, which had no affiliation with and predates PREVENTS-OH,” the university told Fox News Digital in a statement. “The University of Dayton Human Rights Center received its PREVENTS-OH grant in the fall of 2022 and, to date, its community awareness events and dialogues have focused on all forms of domestic terrorism, targeted violence, and extremism. As we stated when awarded the grant, ‘We look forward to partnering with Ohioans throughout the Miami Valley across all political and social affiliations and sectors of the community.'”

On top of that, the Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization image has been around since at least 2019, and clearly states that the institutions listed on the lower tiers are mainstream conservative organizations. In fact, the researcher who used the image, Michael Loadenthal, in his presentation, making clear that his focus was on the dangerous extremist groups “on the top tier."

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loadenthal likewise explained this to Fox News:

According to Loadenthal, the MRC is “misinterpreting and misrepresenting” the diagram as well as his role with it. He sent Fox News Digital a full copy of the image, which included text underneath the pyramid describing the bottom tier with the GOP, the NRA, and the Heritage Foundation as “mainstream conservatism.”

“The chart is meant to show that what is termed ‘the right’ is not monolithic and that some individuals travel to a path of radicalization, beginning with more mainstream sources,” said Loadenthal. “This point is not controversial nor is it deterministic; it is NOT meant to imply that engaging with level 1 inherently leads to level 4. That would obviously be false.”

When the pyramid was presented at the seminar, the text at the bottom was not visible. However, Loadenthal’s notes visible on the screen of the slideshow to the right of the image provide an abbreviated version of the text.

“So today we’re talking about the modern far-right, which depending on who you ask, can include things as mundane as the Heritage Foundation, all the way up to underground cells of militants,” the on-screen text reads. “I like the use of this 4-part taxonomy, although I disagree with some of the groups’ placements.”

Loadenthal also noted that he did not create the pyramid, telling Fox News Digital that he believes it was authored around 2018 — the upper left corner attributes the image to two scholars, McCauley and Moslalenko. “I found it a helpful conceptual scaffolding and used it,” he said.

Despite the fact that MRC’s report was basically debunked right out of the gate, that hasn’t stopped right-wing activists from using it to spin wild conspiracy theories, During Friday’s episode of her “WrongThink” program, right-wing commentator Anna Perez baselessly alleged that the Biden administration is using the TVTP grant program to “radicalize the youth and turn them into a paramilitary organization” that will attack conservatives. [vid]

"You know what this program is really for?” Perez said. “It’s so that the Biden administration can radicalize the youth and turn them into a paramilitary organization. … He is literally creating more members of antifa by implementing this program, that is why it exists. This program is literally meant to fund antifa.”

This entire saga provides a case study in how the right-wing movement works to generate “controversy” out of thin air, first by misrepresenting basic facts in order to generate outrage, and then using that outrage to gin up wild conspiracy theories. And the fact that the central component of this entire “controversy” is false will not, in any way, stop right-wing activists from continually repeating it in order to generate ever more outrage.

Tags: Anna Perez Brent Bozell Charlie Kirk Media Research Center

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The fourth Brent Bozell is carrying on the centurylong tradition of far-right provocation by the first three Brent Bozells.

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Befuddled conservatives react to Dan Bongino being banned from YouTube

Meaghan Ellis January 27, 2022

Befuddled conservatives are not pleased with YouTube's decision to permanently ban right-wing political commentator Dan Bongino from its platform. According to Newsweek, many of Bongino's conservative fans have taken to social media to express their disapproval of the video-sharing platform's decision to remove "The Dan Bongino Show."

"@YouTube banned @dbongino for speaking the truth! The problem is they just don't want you to hear it...... The End!" tweeted Graham Allen, a conservative U.S. army veteran who is currently running for a Congressional seat in South Carolina.

Brent Bozell,President of Media Research Center News Busters, also weighed in to suggest that Bongino's ban was biased. "Now YouTube has permanently banned Dan Bongino—one of the most popular conservative stars around. Yet, the news media still pretend there's no censorship of the right. Conservatives better wake up. The press never will," Bozell tweeted.

Bongino's ban follows a week-long suspension from YouTube earlier this month after he claimed in one of his videos that masks are "useless" in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Trump enthusiasts Diamond and Silkalso chimed in with their disapproval of the ban tweeting, "YouTube bans Dan Bongino, but everyone who pushed Russia Collusion, which was a lie, still has their channels!"

Prior to his channel being banned, Bongino had nearly 900,000 subscribers. However, his Rumble account currently stands at 2 million. Now, conservative commentator Jeremy Frankel also tweeted to encourage Bongino's YouTube audience to follow him on Rumble as an alternative.

"YouTube's loss. At least now we all know it's the Communist echo chamber they always wanted to be but never could admit to being. Subscribe to @dbongino's Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/Bongino," conservative commentator Jeremy Frankel tweeted.

As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, YouTube incorporated strict policies to combat the spread of misinformation on its platform. From conspiracy theories to misinformation about COVID-19, the vaccine, and the presidential election, YouTube has removed a number of accounts belonging to right-wing influencers contributing to the spread of harmful information.

Like most right-wing figures who have been kicked off mainstream social media platforms, Bongino will likely turn his focus toward alternative avenues to spread his message.

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INSANE! Twitter Censors Anti-Critical Race Theory Account

Kayla Sargent

June 11th, 2021

Twitter’s rampage against conservatives has not stopped with the platform now seemingly taking its orders from the left.

Rachel Bovard, Senior Director of Policy for the Conservative Partnership Institute, said that Twitter suspended the conservative think tank Citizens for Renewing America (CRA) after the group posted resources combating Critical Race Theory (CRT). She tweeted: “So @amrenewctr issues a toolkit for parents to help stop CRT in schools, Media Matters issues a baseless and wildly untrue hit on the Center, and mere hours later, Twitter suspends their account. Big Tech working very hard to protect racist ideologies from criticism.” Her tweet included a screenshot of what appears to be a message from Twitter that said, “We’ve temporarily limited some of your account features.” Bovard is a MRC Free Speech America board advisor. 

CRA President Russ Vought provided more insight as to why the organization’s content may have been suspended. “Twitter is now saying that our Renewing America accounts were suspended by ‘enforcement bots’ but wouldn't tell us what was flagged. This occurred soon after we launched an important anti-CRT tool kit and a radical left outlet put forward wild conspiracy theories about it,” he tweeted.

CRA recently published a toolkit for “Combatting Critical Race Theory in Your Community.” The toolkit said: “This guide is meant for anyone of any knowledge and experience level who is concerned about what children are being taught and how they are being treated, with an emphasis on making the banning of Critical Race Theory (CRT) the central theme by which you reclaim your schools.”

Leftist group, Media Matters for America, however, called the toolkit “a conspiracy theory about the overthrow of America’s constitutional system.” It also somehow drew an arbitrary connection between the toolkit’s language and what the organization called the “infamous white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.”

Media Matters for America received more than $1.5 million from liberal billionaire George Soros between 2010 and 2014.

Twitter has long silenced conservative voices on its platform. Its massive push to censor conservative voices resulted in the platform receiving a “F” grade from the Media Research Center in its first Big Tech Report Card. Twitter removed former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol after he called for “peace.” The platform also slapped a “sensitive content” label on a graphic from the MRC. The graphic described the results of a recent poll in which fifty-three percent of respondents answered “no” to the question: “Should biological men be allowed to compete in women's sports?” 

Twitter did not respond to a request from MRC Free Speech America to confirm whether it had suspended CRA.

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NOTE CORP  CNP ALEC KOCH TPBASTARDS USE HYDROXY IN CYNICAL? FURY?  MOVE TO RE-OPEN ECONOMY

9/20

https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/

On July 27, a dozen physicians posed in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., dressed in white lab coats with “America’s Frontline Doctors” stitched over the pocket. The group’s chief spokesperson was Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency physician from Los Angeles. They were introduced by Jenny Beth Martin, the founding CEO of Tea Party Patriots, as participants in the “White Coat Summit.” The doctors made spirited arguments for the use of hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for Covid-19 and against wearing masks and imposing lockdowns—all running counter to the recommendations of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[[1]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn1)

Although the event was billed as a “press conference,” few journalists attended. A video posted by a bystander showed only a handful of attendees, most of them dressed in tourists’ shorts and T-shirts. But the event was livestreamed by Breitbart News and quickly went (so to speak) viral.

There was a rapid backlash. Much of the media attention focused onDr. Stella Immanuel, one of Gold’s cohort. Following the press conference, the Daily Beast posted a video of Immanuel, who is also a Pentecostal preacher, delivering a sermon claiming that various female ailments were caused by sexual visitations from “demons.”

Immanuel has since disappeared from the America’s Frontline Doctors online roster, but the group has continued to get traction. On August 10, Pat Robertson’s show on the Christian Broadcasting Network carried an interview with Simone Gold and an endorsement of her hydroxychloroquine cure.On August 21, Alex Jones’s NewsWars carried an interview with another member of America’s Frontline Doctors, Mark McDonald. McDonald—a child psychiatrist—maintained, “If all Americans had access to hydroxychloroquine, the pandemic would essentially end in about 30 days.”

Science has shown otherwise. Despite early hopes last spring, there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a problematic—and even dangerous—treatment for Covid-19. One expert with firsthand knowledge is Nick Sawyer, an academic emergency physician in Sacramento, Calif. In July he wrote an article for Lifeline, the publication of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, describing his harrowing two weeks of service in the Covid wards of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Sawyer was part of a team of California doctors dispatched by Governor Gavin Newsome to offer emergency assistance at the epicenter of the epidemic, at the height of the New York City outbreak.

Sawyer is now dealing with the spike in cases in California, this time with the benefit of four months of additional Covid research. “The science on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19 is settled—multiple high-quality studies have shown that it shows no benefit,” he notes. Far more concerning, Sawyer says, is its potential harm: “Hydroxychloroquine can cause unstable cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.” Over recent months, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued warnings that the drug should be withdrawn as a Covid-19 treatment. “It’s irresponsible for America’s Frontline Doctors to continue to push this medication on the unwitting American population,” Sawyer states.

Why, then, would Gold’s band of physicians continue its campaign to pitch the treatment to the public? Simone Gold has repeatedly described her group as a “grassroots organization” acting in the service of its patients.[[2]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn2) In fact, it has been a highly orchestrated effort, months in the making, assembled by conservative Washington insiders in direct consultation with the White House, with the goal of reopening the economy in time to benefit Trump’s reelection prospects—regardless of the toll in human lives.

The first public mention of the initiative may have been a Washington Post story on April 13, as the virus raged across New York City and Covid-19 deaths passed the 20,000 mark.[[3]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn3) The Post reported the creation of a new conservative coalition “pushing for the White House and GOP lawmakers to push back against health professionals who have urged more caution.” The leadership was listed as Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, and Lisa Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council. A fourth individual, Jenny Beth Martin, is the founding director of the Tea Party Patriots. She would play a key role in organizing the events to come, including the doctors’ Washington “summit” in July.

Brandon, Nelson, and Martin are all prominent members of a secretive organization called the Council for National Policy,a shadowy coalition that coordinates initiatives among conservative megadonors, political operatives, and media owners, many of them Christian fundamentalists (see “Holding Democracy Hostage”).

The Post story quoted an interview with Richard Viguerie, a co-founder of the CNP, on the mission of the initiative: “The sooner we get the economy going and back up, the better it’s going to be for conservatives and Republicans in this election year. . . . Conservatives feel the government has overreacted, and it’s got to end.”[[4]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn4)

The new coalition, called Save Our Country, officially debuted on April 27, as U.S. Covid deaths approached 55,000.[[5]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn5) Headed by economist Art Laffer, its maiden press release featured quotes from Brandon, Nelson, and Martin. “The long-term consequences of a prolonged societal shutdown outweigh the damage done by the virus itself,” Martin stated. “We must immediately reopen the economy.”[[6]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn6) Earlier that week, The New York Times reported that the Save Our Country coalition’s members were mobilizing their networks for state-level rallies, filing lawsuits, and commissioning polls, all to counter the lockdowns: “Nonprofit groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.”[[7]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn7)

But the state-level protests turned out to be of limited utility, and the group began to look for new avenues. In April, CNP Action, the lobbying arm of the CNP, began a series of weekly conference calls to discuss Covid strategy. On May 11—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 74,270[[8]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn8)—one of the calls was intercepted and published by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Associated Press.

Among the participants were CNP President William Walton, CNP member Nancy Schulze,[[9]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn9) and Mercedes Schlapp, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Schulze, the wife of former nine-term Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dick Schulze, opened the call with a warning that two-thirds of the American people were wary of reopening the economy. But, she added, “Doctors are seen by the American people—they have a 92 percent trust rate with the American people according to polling. . . . There is a coalition of doctors, doctors’ coalition, who are extremely pro-Trump, that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care, andthese doctors could be activated for this conversation now for reopening. NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS]

“The one thing the left does give credence to, in that they tend to be motivated by a secular worldview, the one thing that they do appreciate and listen to is science, and we have doctors that have the facts, that lived this themselves, that are in the trenches, that are saying it’s time to reopen,” Schulze continued. “I’ve been working with them for three years. There’s a coalition of doctors . . . including the most respected doctors in this country, that are ready to speak if somebody will just call on them.”

Walton told her, “We need to not just make the economic argument,we need to make the health argument, and we need doctors to make that argument, not us. THIRD PARTY TOBACCO PR BS And so that would be great if you, if we could tee that up.”

Schulze said she’d be happy to put him in touch “with any and all of these doctors, and I have submitted 27 of these doctors’ names to the campaign for the doctors’ coalition that they’re in the process of building.”

Mercedes Schlapp asked Schulze if she had spoken with Hannah Castillo, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign.“I know they’ve been working on building that coalition. I know they’re going through the vetting process right now. As long as you have the names, that would be helpful. . . . Those are the type of guys we want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message.”

Schulze replied, “I’ve been working with Hannah for over six weeks now, so they already have been vetted. But they need to be put on the screen.”[[10]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn10)

Dr. Simone Gold, a 54-year-old emergency physician from Los Angeles, was ready for her close-up. On April 22, Gold had tweeted a stand-up of herself wearing a white “Emergency Dept.” coat, in front of Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital emergency room, suggesting that concerns over the virus were inflated. She pointed out that the hospital “parking lots are empty, the emergency department volume is down, the patient census is down, and that’s really in most of the areas I’ve been to.”[[11]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn11)

On May 7, she brought a more explicit anti-lockdown message to a program on the Whiskey Politics show on Salem Radio, part of the massive Salem Media conglomerate owned by two leading members of the Council for National Policy.[[12]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn12) It was headlined “DR. SIMONE GOLD GOES PUBLIC! What the Government WON’T Tell Us About COVID-19.”

“It’s not at all clear that overall, that social distancing is going to make a huge impact,” Gold said.[[13]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn13) “We’re all acting like as though there’s a huge medical crisis. There’s a medical issue, we should handle it responsibly, but what’s going on in our country now is a terrible legal crisis. Our constitutional rights are being trampled on right and left.”[[14]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn14) Gold later added, “There’s always viruses . . . but I’m not sure that it’s front-page news.”[[15]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn15)

The Guardian reported that over the same period, the Save Our Country coalition spent $50,000 on videos on social media platforms “targeting independents and Republicans with the message that Covid-19 mostly hits the elderly to minimize risks for others.”[16] GUK

On May 19—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 84,640[[17]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn17)—the CNP’s doctors coalition (billed as “A Doctor A Day”) made its debut with an open letter to Donald Trump signed by “500+ doctors” (a number that was later revised to over 800). “In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” it stated. “It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown.” The lead signatory was Dr. Simone Gold.

On June 16—with U.S. Covid deaths approaching 110,000[[18]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn18) and the U.S. economy in freefall—the Save Our Country coalition published an open letter to President Trump and Leader McConnell, urging “that the multi-trillions of dollars of federal government debt spending in the wake of the Coronavirus come to a stop.”[[19]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn19) Twelve of the 20 signatories (among them Brandon, Nelson, and Martin) were members of the CNP, including CNP President William Walton and Executive Director Bob McEwen.

The push to reopen the schools became a full-court press. On July 7, Trump assembled a White House meeting on the subject. Jenny Beth Martin spoke as both the CEO of Tea Party Patriots and “as a mom.”

“Mr. President, you were right, and I hope you will trust your instincts,” she told Trump. “America is not meant to be shut down. And we have to reopen schools this fall. I’ve been in touch with almost a thousand doctors from around the country. I helped Dr. Simone Gold spearhead a letter to you signed by 800 physicians and surgeons who talked about the side effects of the lockdowns. I’ve done a second letter with over 150 doctors, 240 nurses, 330 educators, 70 national groups, and thousands of parents and concerned Americans who want to see schools reopened.”

A video of Martin’s statement appeared, billed as “Mom Gives Unexpected Speech Directly to Trump” without naming her or her affiliation. It was posted on various social media platforms, including Glenn Beck’s YouTube channel, The Blaze (where it clocked over 400,000 views as of August 4).[[20]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn20)

Dr. Simone Gold was now preparing to join Jenny Beth Martin on center stage. On July 22, Gold warmed up for her appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show, with over 157,000 YouTube subscribers. Kirk, a member of the Council for National Policy, heads a group called Turning Point USA, which recruits right-wing campus activists. (Donald Trump addressed its Youth Action Summit last December, and Donald Trump Jr. is quoted on its website stating, “I’m convinced that the work by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk will win back the future of America.”)[[21]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn21)

The introduction for Kirk’s show summed up the case Gold and her colleagues would make over the coming weeks: “Charlie is joined in studio by board-certified emergency physician Dr. Simon [sic] Gold, who says nearly everything we’ve been told about the Chinese Coronavirus is a lie.She and Charlie take a deep dive into the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and why the U.S. government is barring physicians from prescribing the drug—endangering potentially 100,000 lives, at least. Charlie also takes on Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, asking if Dr. Gold challenges the effectiveness of wearing masks. Dr. Gold makes a stunning and factual assertion about the death rates and who exactly is to blame for what she believes is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated against the American people.” [[22]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn22)

Gold’s “stunning assertion” was the often-repeated claim that doctors were falsifying death certificates, speculating without foundation that they were inflating Covid-19 cases by “20 to 30 percent.”[[23]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn23) Gold also asserted, “Masks are really foolish, they don’t do anything. . . . There’s zero scientific justification for the mask.”[[24]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn24)

Jenny Beth Martin emphasized a social media campaign from the start. Her Tea Party Patriots website posted the program of the White Coat Summit, offering the participating doctors a two-hour session devoted to expanding their social media reach: “YouTube and other social media vastly exceed television news as the information source for most Americans. Interviews and Q/A with social media personalities with large followers is the best way to talk to Americans. Doctors who want to answer questions from these modern journalists will have the opportunity.”

By the time Jenny Beth Martin hosted Gold’s White Coat Summit on July 27, U.S. Covid-19 deaths had skyrocketed to over 136,000.[[25]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn25) The physicians’ presentation carried a lethal stew of misinformation. Dr. Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, assured viewers, “Children are not passing [the virus] on to their parents or their teachers.” (A few days later, the CDC released a report on a massive transmission event in June at a Georgia summer camp, with a median age of 12.[[26]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn26))

Dr. Richard Urso—an ophthalmologist—praised hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for the virus,but it was not clear that Urso had ever had any significant experience treating Covid-19 patients. Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Erickson, a Bakersfield physician who co-owns an urgent care facility. In April he had been censured by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for his “reckless and untested musings” opposing stay-at-home orders and promoting the conspiracy theory about doctors misattributing deaths to Covid-19.[[27]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn27)

The social media strategy paid off. Gold and her colleagues’ video, livestreamed on Breitbart News, reportedly reached 185,000 concurrent users.[[28]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn28) The New York Times’ Kevin Roose reported that over its six hours on Facebook, it was the second-most-engaged post on the platform, with 14 million views.[[29]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn29) (The audiences for network news broadcasts, by comparison, range from 9 to 12 million.) A few hours after the presentation, President Trump tweeted the video to his 84.5 million followers.Donald Trump Jr. told his 5.3 million Twitter followers, “This video is a much [sic] watch!!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with.”[[30]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn30) Trump redoubled his support at his press conference the following day, stating “I think they’re very respected doctors.”[[31]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn31)

But major social media platforms reacted with relative speed. Facebook took the group’s video down a few hours after it was posted, and Twitter and YouTube followed suit, all three on the grounds that the video violated their Covid-19 misinformation policies.[[32]](https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#_ftn32) Twitter took the unusual step of suspending Trump Jr.’s account for 12 hours.

Gold had built the original America’s Frontline Doctors website on a SquareSpace platform, but SquareSpace took it down. Gold rebuilt the website (omitting Stella Immanuel of “demon sperm” renown) and started raising money through PayPal and fundly.com. The doctors’ program also remained on the Tea Party Patriots site....

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L. Brent Bozell III is the founder and President of the Media Research Center, which calls itself a conservative media watchdog organization;^[1] and founder and former President of the Parents Television Council, which his Townhall.com biographical note describes as "the only Hollywood-based organization dedicated to restoring responsibility to the entertainment industry." ^[2]

"In June 1998, Mr. Bozell launched the Conservative Communications Center (C3) to provide the conservative movement with the marketing and public relations tools necessary to deliver its message into the 21st century. C3's online news division, the Cybercast News Service at www.CNSNews.com, has become a major internet news source with a full staff of journalists in its Washington, DC metro bureau, and operates bureaus in London and Jerusalem, with other correspondents around the world," his biographical note states.^[2]

"Bozell is a nationally syndicated writer whose work has appeared in a wide range of publications.

Bozell is Executive Director of the Conservative Victory Committee (CVC), "an independent multi-candidate political action committee that has helped elect dozens of conservative candidates over the past ten years. He was National Finance Chairman for the 1992 Buchanan for President campaign, and Finance Director and later President of the former National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). He currently belongs to the Council for National Policy (CNP) and sits on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union (ACU)," his biographical note states.^[2][3]

Bozell served as president of the Parents Television Council from its creation in 1995 until stepping down at the end of 2006.^[4]

Right-wing pedigree

Media Transparency describes^[5] L. Brent Bozell III as "a zealot of impeccable right-wing pedigree. He is the nephew of columnist William F. Buckley and the son of L. Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative. He was the chief fund-raiser behind Pat Buchanan's unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1992."

Smear campaigns

According to Media Transparency, Bozell helped orchestrate the smear campaign directed at the opposition to Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court in 1991. During the 2004 elections Bozell launched a 2.8 million dollar campaign to discredit^[6] the "liberal media".

Bozell's August 29, 2004, column^[7] on the eve of the Republican National Convention attempted to smear John Kerry by accusing him of "soldier-smearing", for having reported, during his 1971 Congressional testimony, on atrocities being committed in Vietnam.

Published works

• Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will (with Tim Graham), Crown Forum, November 13, 2007, ISBN 0307340201.
• Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media, Crown Forum, July 2004. ISBN 1400053781. Amazon.com.
• And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias (with Brent Baker), Media Research Center, 1990. Foreword by Jeane J. :{Kirkpatrick:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:. ISBN 0962734802. Amazon.com.

Articles by L. Brent Bozell

• *Bozell's News Columns*, MediaResearch.org.
• "Can Ken Tomlinson Reign in the Liberal Bias at PBS?" National Ledger, May 4, 2005.

Resources

Related SourceWatch articles

• Citizens for the Republic

References

1. ↑ Bios: L. Brent Bozell III, MediaResearch.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Columnists/Bios: Brent Bozell, Townhall.com.
3. ↑ "Who's Who At the Values Voter Debate," Right Wing Watch/People for the American Way, September 17, 2007. Scroll down to Brent Bozell.
4. ↑ "PTC President Bozell Announces Decision to Step Down and Welcomes Tim Winter as New President," Parents Television Council, September 1, 2006.
5. ↑ Profile: Brent Bozell, Media Transparency.
6. ↑ Howard Kurtz, "Bias Watch," Washington Post, June 28, 2004; Scroll down to mid page: Bozell's Media Research Center has raised $2.8 million for newspaper ads in 15 markets, billboards in 40 cities and a talk-radio blitz aimed at countering what he sees as a "liberal jihad" that is unfair to President Bush. The slogan (also on T-shirts and mugs) is not exactly subtle. A finger-pointing Uncle Sam declares: "Don't believe the liberal media!"
7. ↑ L. Brent Bozell, "John Kerry's soldier-smearing," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 29, 2004.

External articles

• Terry Krepel, "Brent Bozell, Hate-Consumed Ideologue", ConWebWatch, January 22, 2001.
• Terry Krepel, "The Coming Bozell Meltdown", ConWebWatch, August 30, 2004.
• Jeff Jarvis, "King Prig," Buzz Machine, December 4, 2004.
• Jeff Jarvis, "FCC -- and media -- duped by Brent Bozell's complaint factory," Buzz Machine, December 6, 2004.
• Brian Montopoli, "Propaganda Clothed as Critique," Columbia Journalism Review, March 23, 2005.
• "Brent Bozell: Chicken," Crooks and Liars, November 28, 2005; see related "Scarborough bumps Johnson for Carlson."
• John Amato, "Press Release by C&L concerning Brent Bozell’s attack on Elizabeth Edwards," Crooks and Liars, June 28, 2007.

External resources

• Archived articles: Brent Bozell, Media Matters for America.
• Brent Bozell, NNDB.com.
• Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center, The ConWebWatch Primer.
• eRiposte, "Conservative Media Watch Organizations Alleging 'Liberal Bias' Fortunately, their OWN record on accuracy competes with the best works of fiction": Media Research Center (MRC), Illiberal Conservative Media.
• Brent Bozell, dKosopedia.
• Brent Bozell, Wikipedia.

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Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center

L. Brent Bozell III calls himself "one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today."

Bozell is founder and chairman of the board of the Media Research Center, "the largest media watchdog organization in America." The MRC was founded in 1987. His books include "And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias"; "Pattern of Deception: The Media's Role in the Clinton Presidency"; "How to Identify, Expose and Correct Liberal Media Bias"; "Out of Focus: Network Television and the American Economy"; and "Weapons of Mass Deception." Bozell is also founder and chairman of the Parents Television Council, "the only Hollywood-based organization dedicated to restoring responsibility to the entertainment industry." Bozell is a nephew of conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and the son of L. Brent Bozell Jr., who co-wrote "The Conscience of a Conservative" with Barry Goldwater.

In 1998, Bozell launched the Conservative Communications Center (C3) and its online news division, Conservative News Service, now Cybercast News Service (see below). The mission of C3 is "to provide the conservative movement with the marketing and public relations tools necessary to proactively deliver its message into the 21st century." In 1995, Bozell founded the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that aims to "bring America's demand for positive, family-oriented television programming to the entertainment industry." The MRC also operates the Business & Media Institute (formerly the Free Market Project), which claims to "audit the media's coverage of the free enterprise system," to "bring balance to economic reporting and to promote fair portrayal of the business community in the media." In August 2005, the MRC started the NewsBusters weblog. In 2006, the MRC founded the Culture and Media Institute, which aims "to preserve and help restore America’s culture, character, traditional values, and morals against the assault of the liberal media elite, and to promote fair portrayal of social conservatives and religious believers in the media."

Bozell also serves as executive director of the Conservative Victory Committee, an "independent multi-candidate political action committee" whose goal is to help elect conservative candidates to office. He has also served as national finance chairman for the Pat Buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign and finance director and president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. He also writes a syndicated column, which is reproduced on the MRC web site.

Bozell is also a member of the Council for National Policy, a secretive group described as a congregation of "the Right's Washington operatives and politicians, its financiers, and its hard-core religious arm."

The Media Research Center, headquartered in Alexandria, Va., bills itself as "a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education foundation"; donations are tax-deductible. The MRC is a steady recipient of donations from conservative-oriented foundations. In 1996, its operating budget was just under $4 million; in 2000, the MRC reported income of $15 million. It employs approximately 60 people.

CNSNews.com

CNSNews.com -- originally Conservative News Service; the name was changed to Cybercast News Service in 2000 -- was launched by the Media Research Center on June 16, 1998, "as a news source for individuals, news organizations and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than spin and seek news that’s ignored or under-reported as a result of media bias by omission."

Its first executive editor was Scott Hogenson, who for the previous six years worked in the Republican National Committee's press office. Hogenson took a leave of absence during the 2004 presidential election to work again for the RNC; after briefly returning to CNS after the election, he left for good in 2005 to become deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs. His replacement as executive editor, David Thibault, also had RNC ties; he was a senior producer for GOP-TV's "Rising Tide," a televised weekly news magazine broadcast by the RNC. Thibault died in July 2007. Other CNS staffers have similar conservative credentials.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/primer.html

By John Byrne | Raw Story Editor

The source of his story,Cybercast News Service,is a well-known conservative ‘news’ machine headed by L. Brent Bozell III, who also serves as the head of the Conservative Victory Committee. CNS News was founded in 1988 to combat the “lliberal bias in many news outlets”.

Unlike Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes the conservative television outlet Fox News, Bozell is not simply to be the leader of a conservative media company (the Media Research Center is also under his control); he has campaigned aggressively for conservative candidates, including Pat Buchanan. He is the nephew of conservative columnist William Buckley, and the son of Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative.

The Media Research Center, along with Bozell, took part in the drive to eradicate PBS.

Here’s a quick statement from his online autbiography.

Mr. Bozell also serves as Executive Director of the Conservative Victory Committee (CVC). An independent multi-candidate political action committee, the CVC has helped to elect dozens of conservative candidates over the past ten years. He has also served as National Finance Chairman for the Buchanan for President campaign, and Finance Director and later President of the National Conservative Political Action Committee.

His other ‘news source’ is a conservative blogger, who sits on the board of directors for a conservative thinktank.

Powerline blog is associated with the Twin Cities Northern Alliance Radio Network, a loose association of self-avowed conservative radio shows and blogs based in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The author, Scott Johnson is an attorney based in St. Paul who is associated and has written extensively for the Center of the American Experiment, “Minnesota’s Conservative Thinktank.”

He has published such papers as “The Truth about Income Inequality,” which claims that income inequality has not increased in America in recent years. Rather to the contrary, Johnson claims “these stories have been based, almost universally, on biased analyses which manipulate and distort the underlying economic facts.”

Johnson is employed as an attorney for the Claremont Institute, a conservative institution in Claremont, CA whose mission is “to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.”

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=291 

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Leo Brent Bozell III (born July 14, 1955) is an American conservative writer and activist. Bozell is the founder and president of the Media Research Center, the Conservative Communications Center, and the Cybercast News Service. Bozell served as president of the Parents Television Council from 1995 to 2006, after which he was succeeded by Timothy F. Winter.^[1] In addition, currently, Bozell serves on the board for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and has served on the board of directors in the American Conservative Union. Bozell's column is also nationally syndicated by Creator's Syndicate where his work appears in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post,Washington Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review.

Contents

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• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Early career
  • 1.2 Media Research Center
  • 1.3 Parents Television Council
  • 1.4 ForAmerica
  • 1.5 Board membership
• 2 Written works
  • 2.1 Ghostwriting
  • 2.2 Bibliography
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Awards and recognition
• 5 Controversial statements
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Career

Early career

After receiving his B.A. in history from the University of Dallas, Bozell joined the National Conservative Political Action Committee, working with the group's founder, Terry Dolan, to help elect conservative politicians.^[2] Bozell headed NCPAC for a brief period after Dolan's death in 1986, resigning in 1987 to start the Media Research Center.^[3][4]

Media Research Center

Further information: Media Research Center

Before founding the MRC in 1987, Bozell ran the National Conservative Foundation project at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he moderated debates between Sam Donaldson and Bob Novak over media bias.^[5]

In 1998 Bozell founded the Conservative Communications Center.^[6][7] The MRC also established CNSNews.com, the site of the Conservative News Service later becoming known as Cybercast News Service, as well as numerous other MRC-affiliated web sites.^[3] On its website, MRC publishes Bozell's syndicated columns, the CyberAlert daily newsletter documenting perceived media bias, and research reports on the news media.

On his MSNBC news program Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Olbermann named Bozell the "Worst Person in the World" several times in 2006 and 2007.^[8][9] In response, Bozell posted a press release on the MRC site claiming that Countdown"Preaches Hate Speech."^[10] In October 2006, Bozell founded the Culture and Media Institute, an MRC branch whose mission is to reduce what he claims to be a negative liberal influence on American morality, culture, and religious liberty.^[3]

Parents Television Council

Further information: Parents Television Council

Bozell founded the Parents Television Council in 1995, initially as a branch of the Media Research Center focusing on entertainment television, after he felt that decency was declining on prime-time television programming.^[11] The PTC's stated mission is "to promote and restore responsibility and decency to the entertainment industry."^[12]

In 2001 the PTC also organized a mass advertiser boycott of the professional wrestling television program WWF SmackDown!over claims that the program caused the deaths of young children whom the PTC felt were influenced by watching the program; in particular, the PTC cited the case of Lionel Tate, a 12-year-old Ft. Lauderdale boy who was arrested after murdering a 6-year-old girl. Tate's attorney claimed that he had accidentally killed her when he botched a professional wrestling move. It was ultimately determined that the girl had been stomped to death and had not been the victim of any professional wrestling move, and that the children were watching cartoons at the time the murder occurred. The World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE) would ultimately sue Bozell and the PTC for libel. PTC's insurance carrier eventually chose to settle the case and pay $3.5 million to the WWE and PTC issued a public apology.^[13]The same year, Bozell and the PTC appeared as the subject of criticism in the book Foley Is Good: And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling, a memoir published by former WWF wrestler Mick Foley, who questioned the reasoning and research that the PTC used to associate SmackDown with violent acts performed by children watching the program.^[14][15]

During his tenure as PTC president, Bozell led many campaigns derived from the PTC's stated mission to restore its view ofdecency to the entertainment industry. Among the numerous campaigns Bozell has led with the PTC have included campaigning to bring back the "Family Viewing Hour,"^[16] filing complaints with the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) over what he sees as indecent programs, and boycotting corporations that advertise on television programs that the organization believes to be offensive. Among the PTC's largest campaigns for FCC complaints was over the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in which co-performer Justin Timberlake caused the brief exposure of lead performer Janet Jackson's right breast, leading the CBS network that carried the halftime show to be fined $550,000 by the FCC.^[17] PTC filed about 65,000 complaints,^[18] and Bozell was concerned that many children were likely to have been watching the halftime show, as he told the Associated Press a few days after the show.^[19] In fact, excluding Super Bowl-related complaints, the vast majority of FCC complaints from 2003 to 2006 were found to have come from PTC.^[20]

Responding to two columns that Bozell wrote in early 2005,^[21][22] San Francisco Chronicle columnist Neva Chonin claimed that Bozell wanted to forbid offensive television programs not only from his views, but "from all our living rooms, choice and taste be damned."^[23] Television Watch, an organization promoting parental responsibility for children's television viewing over increased government regulation of television, used a short clip of Bozell saying that the V-Chip is ineffective at blocking inappropriate television programs in a promotional video^[24] released in July 2005 intended to claim that special-interest groups like Bozell's own Parents Television Council are using such propaganda to justify increased government control of the public airwaves.^[25]

ForAmerica

Bozell is the president and treasurer of a Virginia nonprofit corporation called America, Inc., operating as ForAmerica.^[26] As of Feb. 3, 2011, their official website^[27] said "ForAmerica is his latest venture. . . . "^[27][28]

Board membership

Bozell is currently on the board of advisers of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, a group against the defamation of Catholics in America.^[29] He has also served on the board of directors for the American Conservative Union.^[7][16]After resigning as president of the Parents Television Council, he remains an adviser to that organization.^[30]

Written works

His articles have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal,^[31] Washington Post,^[32][33] Washington Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today,^[34] and National Review. He is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Creators Syndicate, and he is a regular on television, including the Fox News Channel program Hannity.^[7] He writes two weekly columns, one covering the news media published Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and one covering entertainment published Thursdays or Fridays on the sites for the Media Research Center^[35][36] and Cybercast News Service.^[37] Other web sites such as Townhall.com, Catholic Exchange, Yahoo! News, and others have published these columns. For some time, the Parents Television Council web site carried Bozell's entertainment column, but as of late January 2008, the PTC no longer hosts the columns, instead linking to the columns hosted on the MRC web site.^[38] In his columns, Bozell has written about such topics asmedia consolidation, indecency, media violence, and anti-Christian sentiment.

Ghostwriting

In February 2014, former employees of the Media Research Center alleged that Bozell does not write his own columns or books and instead has used a ghostwriter, Tim Graham, for years.^[39] One newspaper, the Quad-City Times (Iowa) dropped Bozell's column as a result, saying, "Bozell may have been comfortable representing others' work as his own. We're not. The latest disclosure convinces us Bozell has no place on our print or web pages."^[40]

Bibliography

To date, Bozell or Graham have written four books published under Bozell's name covering the news media:

• And That's the Way it Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias (with Brent Baker) (1990)
• Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media (2004)
• Whitewash: How The News Media Are Paving Hillary Clinton's Path to the Presidency (with Tim Graham) (2007)
• Collusion: How The Media Stole The 2012 Election And How To Stop Them From Doing It In 2016 (with Tim Graham) (2013)

Personal life

Bozell was among 10 children of L. Brent Bozell Jr. and Patricia Buckley Bozell.^[41] He is a nephew of the late conservativewriter and National Review founder, William F. Buckley, through Buckley's sister, Patricia, and is the grandson of William Frank Buckley Sr. He is of Irish, German, and English descent. Bozell's father was Buckley's debating partner at Yale University and a conservative activist; his grandfather Leo B. Bozell was a co-founder of Bozell Worldwide.^[42] L. Brent Bozell III is married with five children and four grandchildren and lives with his family in Great Falls, Virginia.^[3] Bozell has stated that contrary to speculation by some in the media, he is not a Republican.^[43][44]

Awards and recognition

Bozell was named the 1998 Alumnus of the Year at the University of Dallas.^[7] That same year, Grove City College named Bozell Pew Memorial Lecturer.^[3]

Controversial statements

Bozell has been accused of making racially insensitive statements: on December 22, 2011, he appeared on Fox News and stated that President Barack Obama looks like a "skinny ghetto crackhead,"^[45][46] reacting to MSNBC's Chris Matthews's assertions that Newt Gingrich "looks like a car bomber" with "no media backlash."^[47]

In February 2013, Bozell accused Karl Rove's American Crossroads group of waging "gang warfare" on the Tea Party movement. Rove's organization had launched a new SuperPAC called the Conservative Victory Fund, which aimed to help moderate Republicans survive primary challenges from more divisive candidates with narrower appeal. After Jonathan Collegio of American Crossroads responded to the charge by calling Bozell a "hater," some Tea Party leaders called for Collegio to be fired.^[48]

References

1. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "PTC President Bozell Announces Decision to Step Down and Welcomes Tim Winter as New President" (Press release). Parents Television Council. 2006-09-01. Retrieved2007-07-14.
2. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Parents Television Council sees new era, by Michael Learmouth, Variety, March 17, 2007
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8. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Olbermann, Keith (December 1, 2006). "‘Worst Person in the World’: Brent Bozell". MSNBC. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
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10. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann preaches hate speech and liberal media are silent.
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12. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ What is the PTC's mission? Parents Television CouncilFrequently Asked Questions
13. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Higgins, John M. (2002-07-15). "Bozell's $3.5M apology".Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
14. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Foley, Mick (2001). *Foley is Good: And The Real World is Faker Than Wrestling*. New York, NY: HarperCollins. pp. 451–60. ISBN 0-06-039300-9.
15. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Smith, Dinitia (2001-05-22). "A Wrestler Who Prefers the Pen to the Pin". The New York Times. Retrieved2008-01-05.
16. ^ :{Jump up to::(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^a ^b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_III#cite_ref-group_calls_16-1) "Group calls for voluntary return to TV 'family hour:{':(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". CNN. August 1, 2001. Archived from the original on September 30, 2004.
17. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "FCC Proposes Statutory Maximum Fine of $550,000 Against Viacom-Owned CBS Affiliates for Apparent Violation of Indecency Rules During Broadcast of Super Bowl Halftime Show" (Press release). Federal Communications Commission. 2004-09-22.
18. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "Broadcast Indecency Campaign". Parents Television Council. 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
19. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "The Jackson stunt: What now?". CNN.com (Associated Press). 2004-02-06. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
20. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Shields, Todd (December 6, 2004). "Activists Dominate Content Complaints". Mediaweek (Parents Television Council). Archived from the original on February 13, 2005.
21. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell, L. Brent III (2005-02-17). "Is Sweeps Month Lesbian Month?". MRC.org. Creators Syndicate. Retrieved2007-07-11.
22. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell, L. Brent III (2005-04-01). "Moses vs. 'Desperate Housewives:{':(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". MRC.org. Creators Syndicate. Retrieved2007-07-11.
23. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Chonin, Neva (2005-04-24). "Warning: Graphic Content".San Francisco Chronicle. p. PK-22. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
24. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ *EXPOSED! Why Special Interests Don’t Want You to Use the V-Chip* (Windows Media Video). Television Watch. 2005-07-14.
25. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "EXPOSED! Why Special Interests Don’t Want You to Use the V-Chip" (Press release). Television Watch. 2005-07-14. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
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27. ^ :{Jump up to::(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^a ^b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_III#cite_ref-FA_about_27-1) "ForAmerica / About". Retrieved Feb 3, 2011. [...] ForAmerica is chaired by L. Brent Bozell III. [...] ForAmerica is his latest venture [...]
28. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "ForAmerica". Retrieved Feb 3, 2011.
29. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ "About Us". Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
30. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ PTC Advisory Board listing as of September 14, 2007. Bozell's photo is displayed at the very bottom right corner.
31. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell, L. Brent III (September 10, 2003). "Anchors? Captains Whose Ships List Leftward". The Wall Street Journal.
32. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Benen, Steve (2008-03-09). "Far-right offers hints to McCain on how to win their support". The Carpetbagger Report. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
33. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell, L. Brent III (2008-03-09). "From the Right, He Looks Too Blue". The Washington Post. p. B1. Retrieved2008-03-10.
34. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell, L. Brent III (2005-04-28). "Viewers want end to 'slime:{':(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
35. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Bozell's Entertainment Column – 2008 Archive – Media Research Center
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39. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Jacobs, Ben (2014-02-13). "Ex-Employees of Conservative Figure L. Brent Bozell Say He Didn’t Write His Books or Columns". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
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42. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Staff report (March 25, 1946). Leo B. Bozell; President of Bozell & Jacobs Advertising Firm Dies in Omaha. New York Times
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47. :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^ Keneally, Meghan (December 23, 2011). "Fox News commentator calls Obama a 'skinny, ghetto crackhead' on air". The Daily Mail. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
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External links

• Media Research Center
• Townhall.com profile
• L. Brent Bozell III Features at Creators Syndicate
• Media Transparency profile
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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• Living people
• American activists
• American columnists
• American political writers
• American people of Irish descent
• Buckley family
• Grove City College
• National Review people
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• Journalists from Washington, D.C.
• University of Dallas alumni
• Human Events people
• American media critics
• 20th-century American writers
• 21st-century American writers

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Grampa:

Bozell traces its roots to the company founded in 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska by Leo Bozell and Morris Jacobs as Bozell & Jacobs, Inc.^[1]

In 1985 the firm was purchased by Lorimar and merged with another Lorimar entity, Kenyon & Eckhart to form Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt. In the 1990s, the firm shortened its name to Bozell Worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

Bozell is well known for its campaigns, which have introduced memorable slogans and ads, such as:^{[citation needed]}

• "Pork. The Other White Meat"
• the "Got Milk?" milk moustache
• "Corinthian Leather"^[2]

In 1997, Bozell was listed by Advertising Age as the 8th-largest US agency, when it was acquired by True North, holding company for FCB.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, the remaining largest offices of Bozell Worldwide were merged with Lowe Worldwide as part of the Interpublic Group of Companies. The managing partners of the Bozell office in Omaha then bought themselves out from the holding company and began as an independent shop again.^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

^Dad:

Leo Brent Bozell, Jr. (January 15, 1926 – April 15, 1997) was an American conservative activist andCatholic writer.

Family

His parents were Lois (née Robbins) and Leo B. Bozell, the co-founder of Bozell Worldwide.^[1] His wife was Patricia Lee Buckley, sister of William F. Buckley, and their 10 children include L. Brent Bozell III, also a conservative activist and the founder and president of Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group and publisher. Another son, Michael Bozell, is a Benedictine monk in Solesmes Abbey. The Bozell family grew to 48 grandchildren and a great grandchild by the time Bozell died.^[2] His godson was novelist Tristan Egolf.

Early life

Bozell attended Creighton Preparatory School in Omaha, Nebraska. Bozell was the state American Legion Oratorical Contest Champion of Nebraska in 1943 and 1944, winning the national title in 1944. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marine in the Pacific during World War II.^[3] Bozell resolved to convert to Catholicism in 1946 but after his father's death that same year he deferred his decision until 1947 so as not to upset his family.

Catholic conservative

Bozell and William F. Buckley Jr.promote their book McCarthy and His Enemies, 1954

"A young, energetic red-haired Yalie from Omaha", as he is described in Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Bozell was the best friend and debating society teammate^[4]of William F. Buckley, Jr. at Yale University, where he was President of the Yale Political Union and the campusWorld Federalist Movement.

In 1958, Bozell ran for the Maryland House of Delegates but lost.^{[citation needed]} After this defeat he proposed the formation of a new political party at one of the editors' evening meetings in New York; the idea was summarily rejected by the more fusionist editors Buckley and James Burnham.^[5] He later worked as a speechwriter for Senator Barry Goldwater, for whom he ghost-wrote the 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative.^[6] He was a founding member of Young Americans for Freedom.^[7]

In 1960 he took his family to Spain for the first time, making him absent from the Palm Beach decision of Buckley, Goldwater, Russell Kirk, and William Baroody Sr. to freeze out the John Birch Society from the conservative movement. Kirk inferred that Bozell would not have had any reason to be opposed to the decision^[8] but in fact he, along with Frank Meyer and William Rusher, protested the exclusion of the Society from the conservative movement.^[9] After the failed attempt to draft Barry Goldwater at the 1960 Republican National Convention, Bozell, a strong proponent of a Goldwater candidacy, was disappointed and annoyed by the would-be candidate's firm endorsement of the moderate Nixon-Lodge ticket. In 1962, addressing a 18,500 strong conservative rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden, he issued a rhetorical order to the Berlin commander to "Tear down the Berlin Wall," which would be echoed more famously 25 years later by Ronald Reagan, who exhorted Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"^[2]

Conservative Catholic

See also: Triumph (magazine)

In 1964, Bozell ran for the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland against Charles Mathias, one of the leaders of the then-influential liberal wing of the Republican Party;^{[citation needed]} references to the gnostic heresy and to the "arcana of Spanish legitimism" made during his campaign speeches may have contributed to his loss.^{[citation needed]} In 1965 he moved his family to Spain purportedly because "you breathed the Catholic thing there"^[10] and, along withFrederick Wilhelmsen and William Marshner among others, founded the Catholic magazine Triumph in 1966 which Bozell intended to be a bulwark of Catholic orthodoxy and a sort of National Review for Catholics. The magazine featured contributions from distinguished names such as Russell Kirk (a Catholic convert), Christopher Dawson, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, John Lukacs, Thomas Molnar, Jeffrey Hart, Sir Arnold Lunn, Charles Journet, Rousas John Rushdoony (a Calvinist), and initially received an enthusiastic endorsement by Buckley in the pages of National Review.

But the relationship between Bozell and his brother-in-law had already begun to sour; in March 1966, when Buckley wrote a column warning that Catholics should not try to seek legislation that would impose on others their belief that abortion is murder, Bozell wrote a letter to the editors of National Reviewprotesting that the column "reeks of relativism... Mr. Buckley writes in this instance as though he had never heard of the natural law." Buckley was stung by the letter and had composed a bitter reply, but decided against sending it. In 1966 Bozell published The Warren Revolution, a scholarly critique of theSupreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Earl Warren. Despite his relocation to Spain Bozell remained conscious of U.S. politics; he opposed the Richard Nixon administration, intoning in the pages of Triumph that by supporting Nixon's candidacy in 1968 the conservative movement had "ceased to be an important political force in America".

He later repudiated his support for the American experiment itself, as well as his own book The Warren Revolution. Buckley summarized Bozell's new position as follows: "[Bozell's] thesis now is that the republic of the Founding Fathers was doomed because of their failure to adequately enthrall the city of man to the City of God." Bozell himself felt estranged from the United States in general and in particular the conservative movement he was once a rising star in, denouncing conservatism as "an inadequate substitute for Christian politics."^[11] Especially following the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, Bozell began to see the United States as a force of evil comparable in magnitude to the Soviet Union and denounced both democratic capitalism as well as Communism.Triumph idealized Francoist Spain, criticized the events leading up to the Vietnam War - including the U.S.-backed assassination of the Catholic President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem - and the conduct of the conflict thereafter as irreconcilable with Just War Theory, declared against chemical warfare and nuclear deterrence (the latter Bozell had once been a strong proponent of), and identified its economic views with distributism.^[12]

Friends of Bozell blamed his increasing devotion to Catholicism, his radicalism, and his dissolving relationship with Buckley (who was reportedly traumatized by the loss of his closest friend) on alleged mental deterioration; Neal Freeman had said "Brent simply started to fade and you could see it happening, but you couldn't do anything about it." John Judis writes in William Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives: "The breakup of their relationship probably could not have occurred ten years prior or ten years hence. It was very much a product of the tumultuous sixties, which exhilarated Buckley and which lifted him to new heights of celebrity, but in which more troubled, less stable souls like Bozell capsized."

After founding Triumph Bozell also founded the Society of the Christian Commonwealth whose educational arm, the Christian Commonwealth Institute headed by Dr. Warren Carroll, conducted annual classes, lectures, and seminars at the El Escorial in Spain. The entirety of the original faculty of and many of the donors to Christendom College had attended the program in Spain and were subscribers to Triumph. Carroll later remarked in his obituary for Bozell that "In a very fundamental sense, Christendom College was a Triumph enterprise."^[13]

Bozell was a staunch supporter of :{Pope Paul VI:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: and strongly defended his condemnation of :{birth control:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: in the encyclical Humanae Vitae, though he disagreed with the Pontiff's decisions regarding the liturgy.^[13] He was a founding member of and served as a special ambassador for Catholics United for the Faith.^[14] Since its founding, Triumph teetered on the verge of collapse and Bozell was planning on shutting the magazine down until Patricia Bozell attended a forum at the Catholic University of America featuring radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in March 1971. When Atkinson said the Virgin Mary was more "used" than if she had participated in a sexual conception, Patricia attempted to slap her and her hand hit the microphone and she was escorted out. When Bozell heard what his wife had done, he rose to his full height (he was a tall, Lincolnesque figure) and bellowed "To Hell with Catholic University!"^[13]The positive reader feedback convinced him to keep the magazine alive. In 1975, coinciding with the death of Francisco Franco and the beginning of theSpanish transition to democracy, Triumph ceased publication.

In 1985, Bozell founded Misión Guadalupe, a program devoted to the assistance and evangelization of Hispanic immigrants.^[15]

Bozell faithfully visited the inmates of Washington's Lorton Correctional Complex in Northern Virginia every week for years until his death.^[2]

Pro-life activity

In June 1970, three years before the Roe v. Wade decision and when abortion was illegal in most of the United States, Brent and Patricia Bozell led the first "Operation Rescue" mission to try by direct action to stop it at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. where it was permitted for the mental well-being of the mother. Bozell and a group of 230 rallied and met at St. Stephen Martyr Church for a "Funeral Mass for The Holy Innocents" celebrated by four priests, including an African American, a Chinese, and a Hispanic. The protest included the Spanish group "Los Hijos de la Tormenta" (the Sons of Thunder), who dressed in khaki and red berets (reminiscent of the Carlists, whom Bozell came to admire while in Spain), wore Rosariesaround their necks and carried papal flags. They walked a few blocks to the hospital from the church and Bozell put on his red beret and took hold of a wooden cross. Patricia led the women present in a recitation of the Rosary. The group heard speakers, including one who declared "America... you are daggering to death your unborn of tomorrow. The very cleanliness of your sterilized murder gives off the stench of death." Along with others Bozell was met by police and was clubbed on the head. A police officer grabbed Bozell's cross and broke it in half. He was thrown down and handcuffed. In the ensuing scuffle between the protestors and the police, a plate glass window was broken. Bozell and seven others were arrested and given suspended sentences.

Four years earlier Bozell had written "Disorder has become characteristic of a society when the streets of its cities, even its country lanes, can no longer be passed safely at night." When this was brought up to him after the GWU episode, he replied somewhat testily: "If disorder is necessary to stop this murdering of babies, I'm in favor of disorder."^[16] This demonstration dismayed "law and order" conservatives already upset with anti-war and student demonstrations on the left. Buckley denounced his brother-in-law's actions, declaring in the pages of National Review "the Sons of Thunder have moved precious few of the unconvinced over to their side." Bozell and the Triumph staff were undeterred and remained active in early pro-life work, including the organization of the first March for Life.

The cover of the January 1973 issue of Triumph was solid black in mourning for Roe v. Wade, except for a small logo at the top and a white cross and the words "For the children" in the lower right hand corner.^[13]

Illnesses and death

Bozell suffered from bipolar disorder, writing publicly about his experiences, suffering, and recovery in the introduction to Mustard Seeds, a collection mostly of his post-National Review writings (including many from Triumph) published in 1986. The book included "Poland's Cross—And America's," Bozell's firstNational Review essay in almost two decades. It also included the National Review essay for which he may be remembered best, "Freedom or Virtue," which touched off a robust debate between himself and Frank Meyer, mostly around whether freedom or virtue should be the paramount consideration for American conservatives.

Bozell died of pneumonia in a nursing home in Bethesda, Maryland on April 15, 1997 at the age of 71 ^[17] after years of numerous and crippling health problems. His son, L. Brent Bozell III, spoke of those struggles when eulogizing him:

Dozens of times over...25 years the attacks would come, and with each bout, yet another blow, yet another public humiliation. There were arrests and forced hospitalizations, escapes and re-arrests and recommitments. There was the never-ending parade of lawyers, police, doctors, and, yes, from time to time the State Department was on the line to brief us on yet another prospective international upheaval caused by this very unpredictable man.

Manic depression by itself is enough to break the spirit of any man, but Pop was no ordinary man. He suffered from peripheral neuropathy,sleep apnea, osteoporosis, degenerative disc disease, asthma, and Alzheimer's. One by one they came, and when it seemed that no part of his body had been left untouched yet a new illness was diagnosed. We wondered how he could endure so much, accept this torture with such nobility, with never one word of complaint.^[18]

Works

• (contributor) The Best of Triumph. Lawrence, E. Michael, ed. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press ISBN 0-931888-72-7.
• McCarthy and His Enemies (with Buckley, William F., Jr.) Chicago: Regnery, 1954. Reissued as ISBN 0-89526-472-2.
• The Warren Revolution. (New York: Arlington House, 1966.)
• Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press ISBN 0-931888-73-5.

References

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3. ^ Edwards, Lee (June 9, 1997). "A modern Don Quixote fought the good fight". Insight on the News.
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Sources

• Bridges, Linda; Coyne, John R. Jr., Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement
• Buckley, William F., Jr.
• Buckley, William F., Jr., 1997. "L. Brent Bozell, RIP," National Review, May 19.
• Critchlow, Donald T., The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
• Critchlow, Donald T., Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern america
• Hudson, Deal, Onward, Christian Soldiers
• Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
• Stout, David, 1997. L. Brent Bozell, 71, a Champion of Conservatism. The New York Times: April 19.

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