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accused Capitol Rioter Brent Bozell IV: Comes From Right-Wing Royalty
Jon Schwarz
The fourth Brent Bozell is carrying on the century-long tradition of far-right provocation by the first three Brent Bozells.
wHEN THE NEWSbroke Tuesdaythat Brent Bozell faces three federal charges in connection with the January 6 assault on the Capitol, students of the U.S. right’s past might have wondered: Which one?
It turns out that this particular Bozell was Brent Bozell IV, a Brent Bozell who previously had not made as much of an impact on politics as his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather — all also named L. Brent Bozell. But now Bozell IV — accused of obstructing an official proceeding, engaging in disorderly conduct at the Capitol, and entering a restricted government building — takes his place in the family tradition.
If the Bush family is the top GOP family dynasty, one that has produced several kings, the Bozells are a few rungs down the ladder — dukes always prepared to ride off to battle in defense of their liege lords.It’s tempting to see the progression of the Bozells as a tale of the devolution of U.S. conservatism, from intellectuals debating over ideas to street brawling. In reality, it’s a largely a story of stasis, one that shows that the mainstream of American conservatism has always been extreme and reactionary.
theBozell saga begins with Brent Bozell Sr., born in Kansas in 1886. After working as a reporter and becoming city editor of the Omaha Daily News, he took a prototypical conservative path, moving from penurious journalism into the lucrative world of advertising and public relations. He co-founded a firm that still exists today and is still named after him: Bozell. It’s famous for coming up with such marketing slogans as “Pork. The other white meat:{” and “}
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Bozell Sr. fought in World War I and on his return become a prominent member of the Omaha branch of the American Legion. In 1925, he helped bring the Legion’s national convention to Omaha, where President Calvin Coolidge was the keynote speaker.
While it’s considered impolite to mention it, the American Legion has always been extremely right-wing. At the 1925 convention, the program declared that the Legion’s purpose was “to maintain law and order [and] to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism.” Alvin Owsley, who’d been head of the Legion just a few years before, explained that “the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States.” Bozell Sr. later became a director of an Omaha streetcar company, which hired 390 private guards and paid for guns, ammunition, and tear gas for the Omaha police to crush a strike in a particularly ugly way in 1935.
Next up was Brent Bozell Jr., born in 1926. He would become, as National Review editor Rich Lowry puts it, “central to the founding of the conservative movement.”
Bozell Jr. attended Yale, where he became best friends with William F. Buckley Jr. and eventually married Buckley’s sister Patricia. After college, Buckley and Bozell Jr. wrote a stirring defense of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the leader ofan anti-left crusade so intellectually bogus it generated its own noun, McCarthyism. “It is still only Communist ideas that are beyond the pale,” Buckley and Bozell Jr. explained. “Some day the patience of America may at last be exhausted and we will strike out against Liberals.”
Bozell Jr. then joined McCarthy’s staff on Capitol Hill. After McCarthy’s death, he worked for Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and ghostwrote Goldwater’s famous 1960 book, “The Conscience of a Conservative.” Around this time Bozell Jr. began to go off the rails, to the degree the conservative movement had rails to start with.
In 1962, Buckley and others around Goldwater tried to gently nudge the John Birch Society out of the GOP coalition — over Bozell Jr.’s opposition. For Birchers, communists were everywhere. Dwight Eisenhower was a communist, Richard Nixon’s dog Checkers was a communist, and Pat Nixon’s cloth coat was probably a communist too.
Bozell Jr. then moved his family to Spain, a land where men could breath free under fascist dictator Francisco Franco. While there, Bozell Jr., who suffered from manic depression, eventually denounced the U.S. conservative movement, the United States itself, and capitalism. He did eventually return to America, where he died in 1997.
Then came Brent Bozell III, currently the most famous Brent Bozell. Bozell III was born in 1955 and founded the Media Research Center in 1987. The MRC’s core mission is to uncover the natural liberal bias of multinational corporate news outlets. One of its main financial backers is Robert Mercer, a hedge fund billionaire who has also supported President Donald Trump and an Oregon scientist who is stockpiling huge amounts of America’sprecious bodily fluids.
A representative sample of the MRC’s work can be found here. It’s a study of coverage of the Iraq War on the nightly news for the first nine months of 2005. It found that 61 percent of the stories about Iraq “focused on negative topics or presented a pessimistic analysis of the situation.”
The unsophisticated might suspect this reflected reality in Iraq, and that most journalism about the war was pessimistic because there was little to be optimistic about. But the MRC realized that reporters were concealing the good news, probably because of their hatred for America. We can see now how right the MRC was, given that the Iraq War was soon wrapped up as a total success.
The MRC used the same tactic in a report that found that news networks presented an “overwhelmingly one-sided picture of the global warming debate.” This showed the obvious bias of the news, rather than representing the fact that evidence about global warming is overwhelmingly one-sided. MRC has received at least $50,000 from ExxonMobil.
Bozell III also founded the Parents Television Council, which adheres to the same intellectual standards as the MRC. In 2002, the PTC was forced to pay $3.5 million to World Wrestling Entertainment for falsely claiming that the WWE caused the deaths of four children when their friends imitated moves they saw on WWE shows.
Finally, Bozell III sometimes expresses his more personal insights, as when he said that President Barack Obama
“like a skinny, ghetto crackhead.” According to public records, Bozell III was paid $488,000 in 2018.
That bring us to today. After the attack on the Capitol, Bozell III did strongly condemn it. It remains to be seen whether he will specifically condemn his son or realize that in fact Brent Bozell IV is merely carrying on the family legacy of far-right provocation.
There is currently no sign of a Brent Bozell V, but it seems inevitable that one will eventually spring into being, if only due to momentum.
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Son of Conservative Firebrand Brent Bozell Likely to Reject Plea Deal in Jan. 6 Charges: Lawyer
MARISA SARNOFF Jul 12th, 2021
Man identified as L. Brent Bozell IV pix
The attorney for Leo Brent Bozell IV, who has been indicted and charged with violently entering the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, said in court Monday that his client is not likely to accept the plea deal that prosecutors have offered.
Bozell’s attorney John M. Pierce, who took over Bozell’s representation on July 9, said that he was still getting caught up on the case. He said he does not anticipate accepting the particular plea that has been offered, but indicated that he and his client were willing to discuss plea possibilities with the government as the case moves forward.
Prosecutor Michael Friedman said that the government had extended the plea offer to Bozell’s prior attorney, but that he has not had a chance to talk about the offer with Pierce.
The details of the plea agreement were not discussed during Monday’s hearing.
Bozell IV, 41, is the son of Brent Bozell, the conservative founder of the Media Research Center, CNSNews, and the Parents Television Counsel. Pierce is known for representing Rudy Giuliani and others in former President Donald Trump’s orbit, as well as other Jan. 6 defendants. Pierce took over Bozell’s representation on July 9, after Bozell’s prior attorney, David Deitch (who, notably, criticized Guiliani’s son Andrew on Twitter), withdrew on July 6.
Pierce also represented, for a time, Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged for shooting and killing two men during protests against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in August 2020.
Much of the hearing Monday was spent discussing the status of discovery. Friedman, the prosecutor, said that the government has made eight discovery productions to Bozell, including the results of searches of Bozell’s home and cell phone, and surveillance camera footage showing some of Bozell’s alleged conduct on Jan. 6. Friedman said his office was currently preparing to provide Bozell with a Pennsylvania search warrant affidavit, and he has asked both the FBI and Pennsylvania law enforcement to search their files to make sure the prosecution has produced all case-specific materials related to the charges against Bozell.
Friedman also indicated that the government intends to make “voluminous amounts of data” available to Bozell, including footage from closed-circuit television recordings and police body cameras, along with social media.
Friedman said that Bozell is shown on surveillance video as one of the first people to approach the Capitol and use force to get inside the building—specifically, breaking a window. Friedman said the video shows other people breaking the same window and other windows nearby, and that Bozell and others can be seen crawling through the broken windows to enter the building.
According to Friedman, the Justice Department has created a special team for discovery issues arising from the Jan. 6 cases, and has retained Deloitte Financial Advisory Services to process the large amount of data in these cases.
Friedman also said that he didn’t have a time estimate as to when discovery would be complete enough to provide material to defense attorneys, which appeared to concern both Bates and Pierce, although they also seemed to acknowledge that it was not a particularly urgent issue at the moment.
“Maybe there isn’t any timeline that can be identified yet, but I’ve told attorneys for the government that I’m not going to live forever with no timeline,” Bates said.
Pierce said the lack of timeline was concerning, but for the time being, “it is what it is.”
In the end, both the government and Bozell’s defense agreed to pursue discovery and have another status conference in 60 days.
Bozell was arrested in February, and he is not currently in custody.
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When Your Wife Dimes You Out to the FBI as a Capitol Rioter
FEVER DREAMS
In its hunt for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, the FBI has had all kinds of help—from high-school chums, a random “Facebook stalker,” and even the rioters’ loved ones.
The Daily Beast
Updated Apr. 14, 2021 11:16AM ET / Published Apr. 14, 2021
Imagine the FBI knocking on your door to question you about your participation in the deadly pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol. You’re foolish enough to invite them, without your legal counsel present, into your home, at which point the feds show you a photo—of you, rioting. You think you can wiggle your way out of this. You lie, and tell them that it’s not you in the photo.
Now, imagine your wife or girlfriend then stepping into the room and, unprompted, identifying you as the man in the photo, unintentionally snitching you out to the feds in your own house.
As more and more MAGA rioters have gotten caught or charged in the months-long fallout from the Jan. 6 mob violence, that is the kind of story that has followed so many of the indictments and federal investigation—suspects have been identified or busted in so many of the dumbest possible ways that you’d expect the whole saga to be a scene out of Step Brothers.
On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng sit down with Ryan J. Reilly, a senior reporter at HuffPost covering U.S. law enforcement and its hunt for Trumpist rioters. Reilly has spent the past three months meticulously cataloguing the dark, perversely humorous ways in which many of these far-right extremists have found their way into FBI custody. They gratuitously incriminate themselves. They pretend to be tough guys, and then are revealed to be impersonating a trooper or a federal agent. The feds keep making fun of the defendants in affidavits and in court documents. Often, they get ratted out by old high-school chums and rivals, loved ones, or even a random “Facebook stalker” from their home town.
Reilly discusses cases such as that of Brent Bozell IV—son of famous conservative activist Brent Bozell—in which the right-wing scion and alleged Capitol rioter was busted not because of FBI in-house sleuthing but because of an amateur online sleuth in Hershey, Pennsylvania, who “described herself to me as the person that everyone [in town] goes to when they need to look into what their new man is up to… So, when any of her girlfriends get a new man, they come to her and she does all the online sleuthing.”
Along the way, Suebsaeng also takes listeners inside the Trump 2020 campaign’s “voter fraud” hotline room, which was created by the campaign shortly following former President Donald Trump’s clear loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The hotline and email tipline, in its brief and painful existence, also became a magnet for trolls and pranksters who wanted to inundate Trump staffers with as many grotesque or ludicrously pornographic images as possible.
Suebsaeng was recently sent a trove of images, and offered graphic descriptions of others, that had flooded the Trump team in the days following Election Day 2020. He reviewed them—much to his palpable disgust—for Fever Dreams fans’ listening pleasure.
“There were deep fakes of then-President Trump in his underpants, or if not in his underwear… just a completely nude Donald Trump with no genitalia. One person who was subjected to rifling through these images described how there was a point where they had to zoom in on the fake photo to confirm that the Donald Trump in that image indeed had no dick, and wasn’t just a nude Donald Trump,” Suebsaeng said.
This is one way in which the Trump re-election campaign met its undignified end. And there was a lot more... so if you want a deeper glimpse into what Trump forced his staffers to be subjected to in November, check out the whole episode.
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Feb 16, 2021 —Leo Brent Bozell IV, whose father runs the conservative Media Research ... Bozell IV took part in the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells - The New Republic
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Feb 19, 2021 —Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, ... But Brent III drew the line at condoning the January 6 riot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/politics/brent-bozell-son-capitol-riot.html
L. Brent Bozell IV, son of a prominent conservative, is charged ...
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Feb 16, 2021 —The son of Brent Bozell, a conservative commentator, has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after being ...
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/17/capitol-riot-right-wing-brent-bozell/
Accused Capitol Rioter Brent Bozell IV Comes From Right ...
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Feb 17, 2021 —When the news broke Tuesday that Brent Bozell faces three federal charges in connection with the January 6 assault on the Capitol, ...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/the-bozell-family-tradition-of-right-wing-extremism.html
The Bozell Family Tradition of Right-Wing Extremism
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Feb 16, 2021 —Brent Bozell III, was captured on video inside the Senate chamber during the attack on the U.S. Capitol and has been charged with three federal ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/brent-bozell-charged-capitol-riot/2021/02/17/e417a2f0-713f-11eb-b8a9-b9467510f0fe_story.html
L. Brent Bozell IV, descendant of prominent conservative ...
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Feb 17, 2021 —The son of a prominent conservative activist who denounced the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol but has claimed that Democrats stole the 2020 ...
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/07/leo-brent-bozell-abortion-game-00044246
He Was Dismissed as a Conservative Kook. Now the ... - Politico
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Jul 7, 2022 —Brent Bozell IV, by a federal grand jury on seven counts for alleged participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection. L. Brent Bozell III, meanwhile, ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-your-girlfriend-dimes-you-out-to-the-fbi-as-a-capitol-rioter
When Your Wife Dimes You Out to the FBI as a Capitol Rioter
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Apr 14, 2021 —6 insurrectionists, the FBI has had all kinds of help—from ... Reilly discusses cases such as that of Brent Bozell IV—son of famous ...
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John Pierce: Brent Bozell IV Likely to Reject Jan. 6 Plea
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Jul 12, 2021 —The attorney for Leo Brent Bozell IV, who has been indicted and charged with violently entering the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, said in ...
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/539177-son-of-prominent-conservative-brent-bozell-charged-in-capitol-riot/
Son of prominent conservative Brent Bozell charged in Capitol ...
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Feb 17, 2021 —The Times noted that the elder Bozell has spoken out against the Capitol riot, though he has sympathized with Trump's supporters. “One element .
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