Appearing Wednesday on the Fox Business Network, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell told Trish Regan on her eponymous prime time show that the liberal media have shown “such hypocrisy” on the Trump whistleblower. And in reacting to our latest study, Bozell ruled that they have put our “democracy...in peril” with their rampant, anti-Trump bias.

After three generous teases (each accompanied by a video mash-up of liberal journalists saying “impeachment”), Regan began with the scandal enveloping ABC after Project Veritas exposed their decision to quash reporting about Jeffrey Epstein.

Regan called out ABC’s hypocrisy of how much disdain they have for the whistleblower within their own ranks while the one who touched off the impeachment inquiry has been treated like “a total hero” by ABC and their liberal media allies (who’ve assisted ABC by not covering their black eye).

Bozell began by laying out how he would have dealt with the situation if her were a journalist:

BOZELL: You know, I would think that if I was a real journalist and that — that I just — I just pretty much exempted about 98 percent of people who go on the news these days. [REGAN LAUGHS] But if I was, what I would do on hearing this report, my reaction would be what the hell is going on? What story about the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein? I’ve got to get to the bottom of that. That’d be my reaction. I’d want to know the story was. Instead, their knee-jerk reaction is to try to destroy the person who’s trying to tell the truth. REGAN: And — and — and they tried indeed and got the wrong person. There had been some thoughts that that person had gone to CBS News and so ABC calls CBS. CBS then fires that young woman who says wait a second. I wasn't a leaker and Project Veritas says that’s right she wasn't the leaker and leaker is still over at ABC. You know, the — the terms here are interesting.

Bozell added that there’s “such a double standard and such hypocrisy” considering how much energy the liberal networks have purportedly used in searching for the person who leaked the video to Project Veritas versus unmasking the Trump whistleblower.

Later, Regan pivoted to the latest MRC study from Rich Noyes that found 96 percent of the Trump coverage on the broadcast network evening newscasts was negative (from September 24 to November 5).

Regan exclaimed: “I’m not surprised — maybe the only surprising thing about your study, Brent, is it's not 99 percent negative coverage of Trump. But you looked at the recent data and recent report and you found that 96 percent was negative. Only four percent positive. That’s amazing.”

Bozell quipped that he’s “surprised ABC isn’t trying to out the four percent that tried to report the news” and called Noyes’s findings “stunning” before citing his biggest single takeaway: “[T]he number that I thought was most incredible. Donald Trump, as commander-in-chief, ordered and succeeded in the assassination of the most dangerous terrorist in the entire world and the media gave him 67 percent negative coverage.”

Regan agreed that it was truly “amazing” in that “it really shows you he cannot do anything right” in the eyes of the press and that their bias “frankly is dangerous for our country.”

“Yeah and, you know, it’s the point that I continue to make, it's democracy that's in peril. They are trying to overturn the will of the American people,” concluded Bozell.



To see the relevant transcript from FBN’s Trish Regan Primetime on November 13, click “expand.”