The Sound Defeat of the Mainstream Media

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, said the U.S. media was so biased during this presidential election that it reminded him of the government-controlled coverage of an election in Marxist Nicaragua in 1990.

“All the pundits are declaring today that this victory for Donald Trump is historic in nature,” said Bozell in a statement. “That is true — in America. But I’ve seen it before.”

“The leftist media did not decide this election. The American people did.”

Bozell said that on the eve of the Nicaraguan elections in 1990, he participated in a press conference with three others who had been active during that campaign.

The people Bozell was with brought up polls that had the Sandinistas, the Marxist ruling party whose rule often provoked civil war, winning by over 20 points.

Bozell predicted democratic opposition leader Violeta Chamorro’s victory, which was large.

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“I stated the media polling, authorized by the communist government, was going to be flat wrong,” said Bozell. “The Nicaraguan people were telling the media what the media wanted to hear — then went to the voting booths and voted for freedom instead. This is why the pundits got it all wrong. They believed the media and their spin, not just on the coronation of Hillary Clinton — but more important, on America’s repudiation of Donald Trump. They saw Trump’s voters just as the Clinton campaign saw them: a basket of deplorables. All season long, the pro-Hillary press treated Trump’s followers with utter contempt. At the same time, the left-wing media were giving aid and comfort to Hillary Clinton, covering up her scandals when they could, spinning them in her favor when they couldn’t.”

Bozell said his media watchdog group has documented the bias all election season.

“Conservatives heard top leftist reporters like Jorge Ramos calling on the news media — yes, the news media — to take sides against Donald Trump,” said Bozell.

Ramos is the activist journalist for Univision. Ramos often blurred the lines between his job as anchor and a Trump critic. Ramos took particular offense to Trump’s call for security along the Mexican border.

Trump declined to talk to Univision, the Spanish-language network, and Ramos suggested Trump was therefore doomed. He noted Hillary Clinton spoke to Univision.

“The only other candidate that didn’t want to talk to us was Bob Dole in 1996, and [he] lost,” Ramos told CNN Money before Election Day. “Regardless of the results, I think Trump will be the last candidate who tries to win without the Latino vote.”

Bozell also said there was massive media collusion between journalists and the Clinton campaign. He noted the controversy of CNN commentators leaking debate questions to Clinton.

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“Thanks to WikiLeaks we saw something else: how these leftist reporters were working side by side with the Clinton campaign, including [Democratic National Committee chairwoman and CNN commentator] Donna Brazile, leaking questions to Hillary, and then lying through her teeth on national television denying it, and then being caught having done it several times,” Bozell said.

“This was a massive repudiation of the press. Our message — ‘Don’t Believe the Liberal Media’ — succeeded, and in the next few days, we will be unveiling a massive amount of polling data that will document this empirically,” Bozell said.

Bozell said Gallup polling released a poll recently showing that the trust in the national news media has dropped to an all-time low — and dropped 25 percent in the last year alone.

“This is devastating. The public now knows it is not getting news from the ‘news’ media. It’s getting leftist propaganda, just as we’ve maintained,” said Bozell. “The liberal media were the second-biggest losers last night. But as opposed to Clinton, their loss continues. Their credibility is shot, quite possibly for good. It is unfortunate for the honorable, professional journalists working — yes, they do exist — but it’s an incredible win for the American people. The leftist media did not decide this election. The American people did.”