Video: Bozell Bashes Liberal Media Censorship of Bad News on ObamaCare

The liberal media "are deliberately censoring news and information from the American people" on ObamaCare that would cast the Obama administration in a negative light, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell charged on the April 11 edition of Varney & Co.

The Media Research Center president rattled off a few such developments that the liberal media completely ignored (watch the full segment below):

BRENT BOZELL, NewsBusters publisher: March 22nd, you have a situation where 33 Senate Democrats join with 40-some Republicans to vote against the 2.3 percent sales tax on medical devices. That is a huge setback for ObamaCare. Total network news stories: zero.

March 26. Another report comes out that says the health claims in the states are going to rise between 32 and 80 percent and that health care spending is going to double. A dramatic reversal for ObamaCare. Network news stories: zero.

March 26. You get a new report that comes out that says the Secretary of HHS, Sebelius herself, admits that premiums for new policies are going to go up. That is a complete contradiction to what the president told the American people when he sold it [ObamaCare] to them. Network news stories: zero.

April 3rd. You have another report that comes out that the system of exchanges in this country that were supposed to help small businesses are being put off for a year because it's a complete train wreck of a system. How many news reports on that? None.

April 4th, you have a poll -- this was a good one -- that says that two out of three Democrats now believe that ObamaCare will hurt them or not help them. Overall, 78 percent of the American people now believe that ObamaCare is going to hurt them, not help them. Only 15 percent of the American public believes that ObamaCare is going to help them.

Put them all together: No single network news story on any of that. Now, I rest my case, they're censoring information.

STUART VARNEY, host, Varney & Co.: No question, Brent. You've laid out the case and I'm buying it. There is deliberate censorship of information about ObamaCare.

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Bozell, Varney Discuss Media Ignoring Pro-Free Market Speech by Dr. Carson at Prayer Breakfast

Dr. Ben Carson has received little coverage in traditional media outlets for a speech he gave last Thursday at a prayer breakfast in which he advocated a flat tax and health savings accounts to improve the American economy and the health care system, respectively. The little attention he has gotten has been negative, with the media indignant that the world renowned neurosurgeon dared to "disrespect" the president by offering policy proposals that deviated from the government-centered ones of Mr. Obama's liking.

Even so, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted on the Tuesday edition of Varney & Co., because of talk radio, and the Internet, "the toothpaste is out of the tube" and while it may take longer for more people to become aware of it, "This story will not stop growing." "This proves why the networks are becoming increasingly irrelevant," the Media Research Center founder told the Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney. [MP3 audio here; video of segment follows page break]

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Bozell: GOP's 'soul' at risk in Senate tax deal

Brent Bozell, a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser, said Tuesday the Republican Party would lose its soul if House lawmakers vote for Senate legislation raising taxes on the wealthy.

Bozell blasted the Senate bill for raising taxes on family income over $450,000 along with rates for capital gains and dividend income tax while doing little to cut spending. It passed by a vote of 89-8 early Tuesday with the support of 40 Republicans.

“The bill passed by the Senate last night is not a ‘deal,’ it’s a surrender,” Bozell, the chairman of ForAmerica, said in a statement. “The problem our nation faces is over-spending, and spending is ignored: the perfect Washington, DC ‘solution.’

“If the House passes this bill, the GOP loses its soul and co-owns the resulting fiscal disaster with President Obama,” he said. “Conservatives should want nothing to do with any Republicans, no matter how ‘conservative’ they tell us they are, if they support this monstrosity.”

Bozell sent a letter to Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus in November pledging to make it his mission to counsel conservative donors to shun the party if Republican leaders agree to raise taxes.

“I will make it my mission to ensure that every conservative donor to the Republican Party that I have worked with for the last three decades — and there are many and they have given tens of millions to Republican causes — gives not one penny more to the Republican Party or any member of Congress that votes for tax increases,” he warned.

Bozell has been active in conservative political circles for three decades and estimates he has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for “an alphabet soup of conservative causes.”

He sent another letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) that month urging them to reject Obama’s call to raise taxes on the wealthy.

“Conservatives have one question to ask: 'If you now claim a tax increase on small business is the correct course of action, were you lying all along when you claimed this tax increase would decimate the economy?'” he wrote. “Because if you were not lying, you will now be willing participants in the destruction of American jobs in a time of economic crisis.”

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