Media Research Center President Brent Bozell today called out NBC for its timing, handling and reporting of Donald Trump’s lewd hot mic comments made to Billy Bush of NBC’s “Access Hollywood” back in 2005.
In his statement, Bozell blasts NBC’s assault on the democratic process by attempting to rig the 2016 presidential election:
“What NBC has done is a direct threat to the democratic process and evidence of what conservatives have been saying all along. A network that purports to hold itself up as an objective news source while at the same time attempts to rig an election has lost all credibility.”
Bozell calls on NBC to take action to own up to its journalistic malfeasance and take action to atone:
“NBC must take responsibility, apologize to Donald Trump, and fire whoever was behind the strategic release of this tape."
And, if other media won’t acknowledge NBC’s political activism, they are guilty, too, Bozell warned:
“If the rest of the media do not call out NBC for their actions, they are complicit in a cover-up. Until then, I call on fellow conservative leaders to join me in denouncing this network for its hypocrisy and deliberate abandonment of journalistic integrity.”