Papers dropping Brent Bozell after conservative media critic admits he didn’t write his columns

[Botany]

Source: Raw Story

A longtime arch conservative crusader against feminism, secularism, marriage equality and other LGBT rights has been exposed as a figurehead whose books and columns were all written by an uncredited underling.

According to Talking Points Memo, one widely-read Iowa newspaper dropped media commentator Brent Bozell’s column in the wake of his exposure and received not a single protest from any reader.

Bozell, founder of the far-right Media Research Center, was exposed by media watchdog Jim Romenesko, who revealed that books and columns that Bozell had passed off as his own work were actually written by MRC employee Tim Graham.

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An MRC employee contacted Romenesko via email, saying that Graham is the author of “almost everything published under [Bozell's] name.”



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/19/papers-dropping-brent-bozell-after-conservative-media-critic-admits-he-didnt-write-his-columns/

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News Busters gets busted.

thanx to DUer GoleftTV for the video!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017176725

[hrmjustin]

1. Huge K&R!

[shenmue]

2. Tee hee

Busted!

[tanyev]

3. A missing column that nobody misses at all.

[Faygo Kid]

4. Waiting for Fox News to cover this in . . . *crickets*

He's one of their go-to idiots.

Won't hear a peep about this story over there.

[ck4829]

5. He only got to do this in the first place because he is William Buckley's nephew

Hard to screw up winning the gene pool lottery, but what do you know, Brent found a way to do it.

He doesn't have much to run on without his uncle's cred behind him so he can't take one serious attack on him, he is just plain... awful. His methods, without having anyone else do the work, consist of racial terms and using "LIBERAL!!!1!" as a pejorative. I really expect that only his most hardcore fans will even respect him now at this point.

[msanthrope]

10. True, drunken nepotism. nt

[alp227]

6. BTW, GoLeftTV = the Ring of Fire Network

who produces the Ring of Fire syndicated radio show and Free Speech TV show!

And safe to say, Brent Bozell is the Milli Vanilli of political commentary. His uncle (William F. Buckley Jr.) would be ashamed. Somebody please photoshop the faces of Bozell and Tim Graham on the Milli Vanilli members.

[TeamPooka]

7. The Sweet Smell Of Suckage. nt

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

- MACBETH

[Botany]

9. Nice quote

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie,
my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call
our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much
blood in him. Lady Macbeth

[yurbud]

11. awesome. In other news, rush Limbaugh does not actually wipe his own ass

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. The problem must be his short arms.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. That is why...

TRex didn't masturbate.

[yurbud]

24. so when he attacked another dinosaur he wasn't looking for a meal, just a helping hand...

[awoke_in_2003]

27. He was misunderstood. nt

[2banon]

21. 1+ ^

[TeamPooka]

12. K&R!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. "....and received not a single protest from any reader."

[certainot]

14. so, what stink tank is graham working for?

[WillyT]

15. K & R !!!

[calguy]

16. He can always get a job

As Rand Paul's speechwriter. He seems to have the qualities Rand looks for in a speech

[cvoogt]

17. "feminism, secularism, marriage equality and other LGBT rights"

RawStory's writers are apparently serious about their stories being "raw", as in, not edited. Feminism and secularism are not specifically LGBT rights.. in fact they are not rights at all but movements / schools of thought. Maybe they meant "feminism, secularism, marriage equality and LGBT rights" (dropping "other&quot .

[2banon]

22. shoulda' just dropped "other" .. I've seen much worse posted here, mostly from H.P.

way over the top verbs and & adjectives in the "Headlines" exaggerated at best, but often completely deceptive. posted here on DU. I can overlook typos, and grammatical editing errors.. so long as the headline isn't actually deceptive, in that it's actually contrary to the content of the article.

[cvoogt]

25. Of course

I realize this one was a typo ... and not one of the misleading headlines you mention... but it bothers me!! Can't help it. I'm a grammar Republican.

[MrScorpio]

19. I guess that the sun really does come out tomorrow after all

[hibbing]

23. woo woo

I love this stuff, he's such a pompous doofus it makes this deliciously delightful. I am sure he will still be looked to for commentary on that scary liberal media. I wonder if the same guy who wrote all his crap also provides him with note cards for his many many many appearances on the liberal television news.

Peace

[Paladin]

26. Nice to see Bozell exposed for the empty suit he truly is. (nt)

[Cheviteau]

28. Ah, yes. But ...

... Jim Romenesko exposed the truth about the emperor's fine suit.

[AAO]

29. Another one bites the dust!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

30. Aren't you supposed to actually have some stature before employing ghost writers?

Isn't this guy just one of a thousand "conservative media critics", not of particular note in the right wing pantheon of screaming monkeys?

Write your own shitty columns, loser--your base won't have the capacity to know the difference, and you're not doing anything else with your life.

[MisterP]

31. yeah--the Brain Eater doesn't come until someone's famous enough to drop the editor

[CTyankee]

32. I've waited a long time to see that effer outed and shamed and shunned...

Yer goin' DOWN, baby!!!

heh heh

[Botany]

33. He will go right back on Fox as an "expert" and they will pretend nothing ever happened.

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Sen. David Vitter who lectured President Clinton on morality
was caught going to prostitutes that allowed him to play out
his fantasy of wearing and then using a diaper after which they
would clean him up and the spank him for being a "naughty boy"
but he was welcomed back into the senate with a standing
ovation from his fellow republican senators. As long as Bozell
is seen as a good foot soldier in the war against liberals he
will always have a job and a platform to spew his lies about
the other side.

[CTyankee]

35. as long as I don't have to see/hear him, I'll be happy...

I never watch Fox so if he's there it's fine with me...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. Signing your name is hard work,

just as much as cuttin' and pastin' a picture of hard hats.

Lazy Hands

[yellowcanine]

36. At least he can blame someone else for the crappy columns. Unlike George Will or Krauty.

Just sayin.'