Many media outlets — radio, television and print — regularly feature MRC guests on their programs, quote MRC spokespeople in their articles, and cite MRC research in their stories. Below is a sampling of MRC making news in the news media. Links are provided when available, and were active when posted.

New York Post
"Hoist on Their Own Petard"
December 31, 2003

"For 16 years, the Media Research Center has been compiling its list of 'notable quotables.' The quotes, from prominent members of the mainstream news media, provide a clear window into the leftist mindset that pervades most of America's large news organizations. At the end of the year, the center (helped by a panel of judges) chooses the "best" examples. Once again, this year's crop tellingly reveals the media's perennial contempt for all things conservative. Actually, the winners more or less explain themselves. (The full set of winners and finalists can be found at the center's Web site, mrc.org.) Happy New Year!

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Yahoo News (Yahoo.com)
"Hoist on Their Own Petard"
December 31, 2003

Yahoo.com's news service carried the New York Post op-ed about the MRC's Best Notable Quotables of 2003.

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National Review Online
"And the Dishonor Goes To...," by Kathryn Jean Lopez
December 31, 2003

"A year should never end without a review of some of the more outlandish things American mainstream media players have presented as news. Or so is the belief of the Media Research Center, which annually records the worst of the worst in their "Best of Notable Quotables." (Full disclosure: I was one of their judges this year and last.)

"2003's winner for the worst of the year was jarring, from a piece in the Boston Globe Magazine. Writer Charles Pierce wrote, with no sense of irony, "If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age." Miss Kopechne, of course, died in Kennedy's car in the waters off Chappaquiddick Island in the summer of 1969. Had only Kennedy cared enough not to wait until the next morning to report the accident, she might have the blessing of his selfless legislative service today"...

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Townhall.com
"What About What Fat Kids Watch?" by Brent Bozell
December 31, 2003

"ABC anchorman Peter Jennings recently hosted a special telling us "How to Get Fat Without Really Trying." The primary point was to encourage the public to view fatty foods as a public health threat on the order of cigarette smoking, and to encourage the viewpoint that government had better play a greater role as the national food police"...

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WAAM-Ann Arbor, Mich.
December 31, 2003

Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the MRC's 2003 Best of NQ with host Dan Peckeral.

Read the Best Notable Quotables of 2003

Investors Business Daily
"Issues and Insights"
December 30, 2003

"'If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.'"

"Charles Pierce in a Jan. 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Voted "Quote of the Year" by the Media Research Center.

Read the Best Notable Quotables of 2003

Judicial Watch radio report 
December 30, 2003

Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the MRC's 2003 Best of NQ with host Jane Chastain.

Read the Best Notable Quotables of 2003

Radio America
"Behind the Headline," with Jane Silk
December 30, 2003

Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed ABC's coverage of Saddam Hussein and the Best of NQ for 2003.

Read the Best Notable Quotables of 2003

The Wilmington (N.C.) Journal
"The Hypocrisy of the Thurmond Controversy," by Cash Michaels
December 29, 2003

"Right-wing media, which praised and celebrated Thurmond exactly a year ago on his 100th birthday, meekly conceded his racist past if they acknowledged the story at all, using the occasion to blast the liberal media for calling Ms. Williams “black” and “African-American,” instead of “mixed-race.”

“'Isn’t she just as white as she is black?' asked the conservative Media Research Center, a right-wing media watchdog group. 'And isn’t labeling her black, in the midst of stories wondering how she dealt with her segregationist father, ironic in that it plays into historic prejudices that having some black heritage in your bloodline somehow taints you as black?'

“'Admittedly, she was raised in a black household and was treated as black by society,' MRC continued, 'but that doesn’t mean she really is any more black than she is white, or any more Negro than Caucasian'"...

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Human Events Online
"Remembering the Media Lows of 2003" by L. Brent Bozell III
December 29, 2003

"Fifty years from now, schoolchildren may learn that 2003 was the year President Bush liberated Iraq, creating a prosperous powerhouse of democratic capitalism in the Middle East. We don't know how it will turn out, of course. But we know one thing: The first draft of history out of our national media came from the angry left, furious at the exercise of American power and solicitous of the dictator now in the dock.

"The worst media eruptions of 2003 are now collected in the Media Research Center's annual greatest-misses collection known as the Best of Notable Quotables. Forty-six judges selected the ugliest of the ugly, lest we forget how ridiculous our media elite can be"...

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Boston Globe
"Hate Speech of the Left," by Jeff Jacoby
December 28, 2003

Jacoby cites several hateful, anti-conservative comments from liberal journalists that have been documented by the MRC.

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ArkansasNews.com
"That Liberal Media Bias," by David Sanders
December 28, 2003

"It is a fact of life that is as sure as a morning sunrise: There exists a liberal media bias in the mainstream media. This isn't a column lamenting the liberal domination of the nation's major media outlets; instead, I have come to celebrate it.

"It is important to point out that conservatives have made much progress in getting their point of view across in the media. It is easy to point to the success of Fox News and other program changes on 24-hour news channels, even the editors at the New York Times had the good judgment to hire David Brooks as a columnist. 

"Revisiting media bias in 2003, the Media Research Center honors the press' uncontrollable tendencies with the '16th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting'...

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Rocky Mountain News
"2003 Media Madness," by Mike Rosen
December 26, 2003

"It's time for the 16th annual Media Research Center's awards for the most biased, manipulative or downright goofy quotes from liberals in the "mainstream" media. I'm honored to serve, once again, on MRC's distinguished panel of conservatively biased judges. Here are some of the highlights from among the winners and runners-up of Best Notable Quotables of 2003..."

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Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Quotes of the Year"
December 26, 2003

The Alexandria-based Media Research Center has released its list of The Best Notable Quotables of 2003: The 16th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting....

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The Jewish Press.com
"They Said That!" by Rich Noyes and Tim Graham
December 24, 2003

"The Media Research Center (MRC) is out with its annual “Best Notable Quotables,” a compendium of the most outrageously biased and unintentionally humorous statements made by liberal journalists during the past year (December 2002 through November 2003). The following represents an extensive sampling of what passes for objective reporting and trenchant analysis in today’s media culture"...

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TownHall.com
"Remembering the Lows of 2003," by Brent Bozell
December 24, 2003

Fifty years from now, schoolchildren may learn that 2003 was the year President Bush liberated Iraq, creating a prosperous powerhouse of democratic capitalism in the Middle East. We don't know how it will turn out, of course. But we know one thing: The first draft of history out of our national media came from the angry left, furious at the exercise of American power and solicitous of the dictator now in the dock.

The worst media eruptions of 2003 are now collected in the Media Research Center's annual greatest-misses collection known as the Best of Notable Quotables. Forty-six judges selected the ugliest of the ugly, lest we forget how ridiculous our media elite can be.

See Story | Read the Best Notable Quotables of 2003

Detroit Free Press
"The Left Side of the Dial," by Julie Hinds
December 23, 2003

"Conservatives scoff at Democracy Radio's mission and say its premise is faulty.

"The idea that liberals aren't on talk radio isn't the slightest bit true," says Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group. "Any market that has National Public Radio on it has a liberal talk show. I'd say liberals have already got 700 affiliates of NPR to say what they want to say"...

Rush Limbaugh.com
December 22, 2003

"There are two interesting things happening here. First of all, AP got the poll results back and they looked good, and the second thing is, they didn't suppress them. AP didn't suppress the results like ABC did last week. The Media Research Center reported that ABC suppressed a poll when they found that it contained positive news for Bush and for the country. Brent Bozell's boys found out about it, and they alerted the rest of the nation. It's just like the World Health Organization suppressing their poll on secondhand smoke and how it's not harmful. It went totally against what they expected it to say so they buried it..."

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Florida Times-Union
"Shorelines," by Jackie Rooney
December 20, 2003

"On Dec. 10, Doug Mills, executive director of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va., spoke to the Women's Club at an Inn & Club luncheon. The center, a conservative watchdog organization with a mission to bring responsibility to the media, intervened in the airing of the CBS drama about Nancy and Ronald Reagan.

'"We wrote to 100 top advertisers,' Mills said. 'We said before you sponsor this, you better be sure it's right. . . . The movement shocked CBS; they didn't expect anybody to stand up and scream'"....

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Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune
December 19, 2003

"The Media Research Center, based in Alexandria, Va., has announced its '16th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.'

"The center's stated mission is to bring political balance and responsibility to the media.

"A nationwide panel of more than 40 editors, editorial writers, columnists, media critics, authors and talk show hosts selected 'winners' in 17 categories.

"Here's their pick as the Quote of the Year: 'If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.' It was written by Charles Pierce in a Jan. 5 Boston Globe Magazine article.

"Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy's submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.

"The other worst reporting awards can be read at www.mediaresearch.org

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Ft. Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel
"The Left Side of the Dial," by Julie Hinds
December 19, 2003

"Conservatives scoff at Democracy Radio's mission and say its premise is faulty.

"The idea that liberals aren't on talk radio isn't the slightest bit true," says Tim Graham of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group. "Any market that has National Public Radio on it has a liberal talk show. I'd say liberals have already got 700 affiliates of NPR to say what they want to say"...

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Las Vegas Review Journal
"Final Word"
December 18, 2003

"'If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.'

"Charles Pierce, in a Jan. 5 Boston Globe magazine article. Ms. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Mr. Kennedy's submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, an accident the senator didn't report for hours. The passage earned the Media Research Center's 'Quote of the Year' award for 2003. Sen. Kennedy, left.

Investor's Business Daily
"Go Ahead, Gloat -- Saddam's Capture Good News, Period," by Brent Bozell
December 18, 2003

"As the news bubbled up on Sunday morning that Saddam Hussein had been captured, the White House publicity line was crystal clear. It was "a no-gloat zone," they reported on TV.

"That's smart politics -- humility in triumph, generosity with your opponents, moderation on a new international obstacle course -- but it's completely unsatisfying to hooting, cheering war supporters.

"Many Americans who've had their fill of the media and their perpetually overflowing cup of negativity stumbled to the TV set in their pajamas and erupted with delight at the left's plight: Take that, Peter Jennings!...

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The Tony Gill Show
WAIC-Springfield, Mass.
December 17, 2003

Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed ABC's coverage of Saddam Hussein's coverage.

Special Report with Brit Hume
Fox News Channel
December 17, 2003

Brit Hume: "A new study indicates that positive evaluations of President Bush on the network evening news have dropped from 56 percent, during the Iraq war, to 32 percent after the end to major operations was announced. The study, conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, shows that CBS News was the toughest on President Bush after major operations ended, with 77 percent negative evaluations, followed by ABC with 67 percent negative evaluations. This, as another group, the Media Research Center, is accusing ABC of burying one of its polls -- which as we told you earlier this week, showed President Bush’s job approval on Iraq rose ten percentage points after Saddam’s capture. ABC News, the center says, only referenced the poll for a few brief seconds with a small graphic Monday morning and that was it."

Investor's Business Daily
"Gloat While You Can," by Brent Bozell
December 18, 2003

"As the news bubbled up on early Sunday morning that Saddam Hussein had been captured, the White House publicity line was crystal clear. It was "a no-gloat zone," they reported on TV. That’s smart politics – humility in triumph, generosity with your opponents, moderation on a new international obstacle course – but it’s completely unsatisfying to hooting, cheering war supporters."

The Karen Grant Show
KION-Salinas, Calif.
December 18, 2003

MRC Research Director Rich Noyes commented on ABC's coverage of Saddam Hussein's capture.

The Janet Parshall Show
December 18, 2003

MRC President Brent Bozell discussed ABC's coverage of Hussein's capture.

The Lockwood Phillips Show
WTKF-Morehead City, N.C.
December 18, 2003

Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed ABC's coverage of Hussein's capture.

WIBC-Indianapolis, Ind.
December 17, 2003

MRC President Brent Bozell commented on ABC's coverage of Hussein's capture.

MRC spokesmen also discussed ABC's coverage of Hussein's capture on these radio programs.

The Chuck Harder Show
Talk America Network
December 17, 2003

The Bill Meyer Show
KMED-Medford, Ore.
December 17, 2003

The John Stockes Show
KGEZ-Kalispell, Mont.
December 17, 2003

The Harry Hurley Show
WKXW-Atlantic City, NJ
December 17

The Doug Kellet Show
KNRC-Denver, Colo.
December 16, 2003

Special Report with Brit Hume
Fox News Channel
December 17

"...Another group, the Media Research Center, is accusing ABC of burying one of its polls -- which as we told you earlier this week, showed President Bush’s job approval on Iraq rose ten percentage points after Saddam’s capture. ABC News, the center says, only referenced the poll for a few brief seconds with a small graphic Monday morning and that was it."

Townhall.com
"Gloat While You Can," by Brent Bozell
December 17, 2003

"As the news bubbled up on early Sunday morning that Saddam Hussein had been captured, the White House publicity line was crystal clear. It was "a no-gloat zone," they reported on TV. That’s smart politics – humility in triumph, generosity with your opponents, moderation on a new international obstacle course – but it’s completely unsatisfying to hooting, cheering war supporters."

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Human Events Online
"NBC Loves Charlatan Al," by Brent Bozell
December 17, 2003

"What were they thinking at NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" when they invited racial hate-monger Al Sharpton to be a guest host? "For me, it's a wonderful opportunity," Sharpton said in his opening monologue. 'Maybe tonight, people can finally get to know the real Al Sharpton. President Al Sharpton.'

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Crosswalk.com
"The Predictability of the Media," by Cal Thomas
December 17, 2003

"...The broadcast networks were also what you would have expected, especially at ABC. The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell said ABC's reporting reminded him of al-Jazeera. It highlighted every negative development and submerged every positive development in "waves of yes-buts, so-whats, and blatant omissions.

"Within half an hour after the story broke, ABC White House correspondent emphasized how a trial of Saddam could be "embarrassing" for the United States. On "Good Morning America," Charles Gibson repeated the embarrassment line since "we supported him for so long" and "gave him some of the instruments that he used to terrorize his people."

"Peter Jennings said, 'people have suggested to us today, there's not a good deal for Iraqis to be happy about at the moment.' Incredible! And a lie...but predictable...

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Family News in Focus.org
"Reporter Signs On to Abortion Group," by Keith Peters
December 16, 2003

"Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, is not surprised by O'Hanlon's career path.

"We've seen what we call the revolving door (before), and that is that people rotate between politics and activism and journalism," he explained. Former Democratic White House aides George Stephanopoulos and Bill Moyers, for instance, have both moved into the media spotlight as supposedly nonpartisan observers.

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Hartford (Conn.) Courant
"Cheerleaders: Was Media's Reaction to Iraqi Dictator's Capture More Relief Than Substance?" by Liz Halloran
December 16, 2003

"...As far as Tim Graham is concerned, however, the reporters could cheer all they wanted Sunday.

"'It was a win for America,' said Graham, of the conservative Media Research Center. 'If people want to say that the news media is just covering the facts when they seem like they're bad out of Iraq, certainly they shouldn't say they were cheerleading yesterday when the facts seem good.'

Graham, whose organization typically posts on its website a daily list of grievances against news organizations that it believes report unfairly on the Bush administration, said he had few quibbles over the Hussein coverage.

"'The reaction of most Americans was joy and relief -- it's hard to argue with success,' he said. 'I think you could say that the networks are aware that there's a danger to being too contrary to the audiences' feelings.'

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Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
"Political Strategies Take Dramatic Shift," by William E. Gibson
December 15, 2003

"This is a moment that will be seen by Americans as a clear sign of success in Iraq, which no longer seems like just a quagmire,' id Richard Noyes, research director and political analyst at the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va. 'he last time Americans saw Saddam, he was taunting them, saying they would meet a bloody end. Now he is no longer the dictator, just somebody being checked by a doctor.'

'These images already have been played exhaustively on television and will be broadcast again and again as Hussein is brought to justice. In political terms, the impact could hardly be better for Bush, unless a burst of violence convinces Americans that the war will never end with Hussein in custody or not.'

""If it doesn't end, people may say, 'What is Plan B?' Noyes said. 'They (White House officials) have been much more careful to not raise expectations or even say this is the beginning of the end.'"

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Grand Forks (ND) Herald
December 15, 2003

Also ran Gibson's Sun-Sentinel article on Hussein's capture.

San Antonio News-Express
"What They're Saying" by News-Express staff
December 15, 2003

"This is a moment that will be seen by Americans as a clear sign of success in Iraq, which no longer seems like just a quagmire," said Richard Noyes, research director and political analyst at The Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va.

"The last time Americans saw Saddam, he was taunting them, saying they would meet a bloody end. Now he is no longer the dictator, just somebody being checked by a doctor..."

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Investor's Business Daily
"Separate Realities"
December 15, 2003

"The anti-insurgent rallies haven't gone totally unnoticed by the media. There has been some light coverage. Otherwise we would would have never know that '5,000 to 10,000 Iraqis tried to send terrorists a cease-and-desist message Wednesday from downtown Baghdad," as a Knight Ridder News Service reporter described it.

"Or that 4,000 or so chanted 'death to terrorists' in Baghdad on Nov. 28.

"The Media Research Center tells us the rallies were ignored, though, by tow of the major broadcast network news shows while ABC gave it a cursory treatment. And, as far as we can tell, not a single major daily newspaper had a march story on its front page..."

Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald
"Capture Has Impact on Presidential Campaign," by William E. Gibson
December 14, 2003

"The toppling of his statue in Baghdad became a powerful symbol of the demise of his regime. And now his capture, conveyed by indelible images of his pathetic state after being dragged from a hole, personifies Bush's pitch that ending a horrific dictatorship was reason enough to go to war.

"This is a moment that will be seen by Americans as a clear sign of success in Iraq, which no longer seems like just a quagmire," said Richard Noyes, research director and political analyst at The Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va. "The last time Americans saw Saddam, he was taunting them, saying they would meet a bloody end. Now he is no longer the dictator, just somebody being checked by a doctor..."

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Investor's Business Daily
"Fab Former First Lady Fends Off Feckless Fops," by L. Brent Bozell
December 11, 2003

"Last Sunday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something she has never done before: appear on the three morning shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, all on the same Sunday. Once viewers could see the easy sleigh ride she was getting, they might ask: why’d she wait until now?"

This is a reprint of MRC President Brent Bozell's weekly syndicated column.

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Los Angeles City Beat
"Hollywood Goes to War -- Against Bush," by Ed Rampell
December 11, 2003

"The online item moved conservative jocks into drivel overdrive. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly debated The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel about the meeting, threatening to shut off her microphone. Rush Limbaugh derided the gathering of “Left Coast Hollywood kooks.” Meeting co-host Greenwald battled Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and co-anchor Robert Novak on CNN’s Crossfire."

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TownHall.com
"Press Year in Review," by Marvin Olasky
December 11, 2003

"Meanwhile, the big media lie for 2004 -- Howard Dean is a moderate -- already has emerged. The Media Research Center, which supplied the quotations above, notes that on Tuesday night CBS announced that Dean "had a moderate record during his 10 years in the Vermont statehouse." Look for more of that, as we find out whether the Dean drive represents the death throes of the old McGovern order or a second wind."

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CBN.com
"Dissed Information: Media Ignore Saddam-Osama Link," by Dale Hurd
December 9, 2003

"Since when does the Washington press corps not care about a leaked, classified Pentagon memo? Maybe when it makes the media look bad, or maybe when it makes the president look good.

"Brent Bozell is a conservative media critic. He said, 'I absolutely guarantee you that had this intelligence report concluded that there was not a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, it would lead every network news show for three or four days.'

"He continued, 'Whenever there is a memo that comes out of the CIA or the Pentagon that's negative about George Bush, it's guaranteed to be on ABC News that night, or on NBC or on CBS. Now we have a comprehensive intelligence report that defends the president's policies and they've spiked it. "

Even the liberal magazine Slate has ridiculed the blackout, saying in an article, "everybody knows how the press loves to herd itself into a snarling pack to chase the story of the day. Less noticed is the press' propensity to half-close its lids, lick its paws and contemplate its hairballs when confronted with events or revelations that contradict its prejudices.' Bozell said, 'It's extraordinary that the media believe in the public right-to-know, except for those things the media don't want the public to know.'

"But the story's not dead yet. The U.S. is no doubt examining a treasure trove of captured Iraqi intelligence documents in Baghdad that could tell much more."

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Washington Post
"Lieberman Versus Hollywood," by Paul Farhi
December 8, 2003

"The issue has also helped reinforce Lieberman's reputation as the most conservative of the nine Democratic candidates (comedian Jon Stewart recently suggested that Lieberman is "the candidate for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think [Bush] is Jewish enough"). Indeed, Lieberman's crusade has brought him into alliance with many conservatives, including Republican Sens. Sam Brownback (Kan.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.), "virtues" czar William J. Bennett and media critic L. Brent Bozell III..."

"...Perhaps the people most chagrined with Lieberman these days are his erstwhile allies, Bennett and Bozell. Both express the same disappointment: that Lieberman, having lent his senatorial heft to attacks on Hollywood, has backed away now that he is seeking the Democratic nomination. Both say Lieberman has not devoted enough attention to the subject during his campaign.

"'I expected him to be full-throated about it,' Bennett says. 'I'm frankly baffled by why he hasn't been. He's not afraid to talk to labor groups about [his support of] school vouchers and get booed. Why isn't he talking more about this issue? I wonder if someone said to him, 'Large contributors don't like this one.'

"'I agree with Bill,'" says Bozell, 'I'm still waiting for Lieberman. He's been very quiet on that front. . . . I don't know if he's just receiving some terrible advice from his political consultants who are just uncomfortable talking about cultural issues."

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Scarborough Country
MSNBC
December 5, 2003

MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the broadcast networks' refusal to cover a leaked Defense Department memo that has documented contacts between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's former government. 

Brent Bozell: "...It's explosive because it is justification, unquestionable justification for having gone to war. You've got so many in the press who have been questioning the reasons for going to war and questioning the ties between -- the alleged ties between Hussein and al Qaeda that, now, for them to report the evidence that's out there, makes a mockery of what they've been reporting for the last year..."

"...This is deliberate. ABC, NBC, CBS have deliberately chosen not to report this. Now, the question is why? Ask them. I would love to know the answer."

"...If the report had been critical of George Bush, i.e., the leaked CIA memo saying that he knew, had prior knowledge of a possible airline attack against American interests, it would be on every single network."

See the complete transcript

Townhall.com
"Hollywood and the Reasonable Liberal," by Brent Bozell
December 5, 2003

The Drudge Report was beaming out the news to computer stations nationwide: Hollywood's Democrats were meeting in Beverly Hills on Dec. 2 for what was dubbed a "Hate Bush" event, aimed to "prevent the advancement of the current extremist right-wing agenda."

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Family News in Focus 
"Senators Accused of Ethics Breach," by Keith Peters
December 5, 2003

"One of the sidelights in the case is the lack of media attention. Instead of focusing on the ethics of the memos, papers such as the Washington Post have focused on how they were leaked. 

"Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said that approach is hardly surprising.

"What the media really don't want to tell people is the extent to which the liberal interest groups — the National Organization for Women, the Human Rights Campaign (and) Planned Parenthood — are telling the Democrats, 'We don't want any Bush judges confirmed,' " Graham said."

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Hardball with Chris Matthews
MSNBC
December 4, 2003

MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the seizure of medical records from Rush Limbaugh's doctors with Hardball host Chris Matthews.

Brent Bozell, Media Research Center: "I'm asking myself why are they doing this. What did Rush do? What Rush did was abuse his own body, for which he's gotten treatment. Why are they investigating him? He's come out front and center and said it..."

InsightMag.com
"What Should Conservatives Do Now," by L. Brent Bozell
December 3, 2003

"The GOP's philosophy today is ... nothing, reminiscent of the party in the post-Nixon debacle.

"On the eve of the recall election in California the Democrats predictably, and with a healthy assist from the Los Angeles Times, tried to smear Arnold Schwarzenegger. A friend, a strong Republican with impeccable conservative credentials, e-mailed me hastily: "Rush, Bush, Rove, Arnold - we've got to stop these smears against conservatives!!"

"I couldn't help tweaking my friend in my answer: "Arnold ... conservative?..."

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TownHall.com
"Bush, Puppet Master of the Press?" by Brent Bozell
December 3, 2003

"The White House received some serious hand-rubbing good political news in the last week of November: passing a new Medicare bill, watching economic growth numbers revised upward to a startling 8.2 percent, and on Thanksgiving, the president secretly jetting into Baghdad to meet with wildly cheering troops.

"With all this positive news, you just knew it wouldn't take long for liberals in the media to complain about pro-Bush media bias.

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ChronWatch.com
"Media Hosannas for the Homosexual Revolution," by Anne Thompson
December 3, 2003

"The press and the media in their reporting of the Massachusetts court's ruling about gay marriage, have largely ignored the strong majorities in opposition to gay marriage. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center discusses this in his latest column, distributed to MRC's e-mail subscribers..."

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CNN Crossfire
"Hollywood Plots Downfall of Bush" with Paul Begala and Robert Novak
December 3, 2003

Brent Bozell, MRC President: "Let me tell you something, my friend. There's nothing that the Bush administration should want more than this group of lunatic-fringe leftists out there campaigning against him, because he'll win in a landslide, when you have these people against him..."

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The Mitch Albom Show
WJR-Detroit, Mich.
December 1, 2003

Research Director Rich Noyes discussed Showtime's decision to show The Reagans miniseries. 

Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family Radio Network
December 1, 2003

Research Director Rich Noyes discussed the proposed liberal radio network.

2003 Archive