Evidence Of Something

Sure Brent Bozell is insane, but he makes me laugh, and for that I've got to love him just a little bit. Take this story from today's IMDb news:

The Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog headed by activist Brent Bozell, has accused the major television networks of using a "double standard when reporting the sexual proclivities of Republicans versus Democrats." In a report prompted by coverage of the Mark Foley scandal, the MRC observed that while the morning and evening news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 150 stories on Republican Foley over 12 days, the same programs referred to the scandal involving Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds 19 times over an entire year. Reynolds was convicted in 1995 for having had sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. "The same networks that gave absolute minimal coverage to the Democrat are now flooding the airwaves with stories about the Republican, on the eve of the elections. If this isn't evidence of a liberal media agenda, nothing ever will be," Bozell said in a statement. Many of the reports involving the Foley matter have focused on alleged efforts by the Republican leadership to cover up the Congressman's misbehavior, an issue that did not arise during the Reynolds scandal.

Now that's interesting and worth repeating: "Many of the reports involving the Foley matter have focused on alleged efforts by the Republican leadership to cover up the Congressman's misbehavior, an issue that did not arise during the Reynolds scandal." Could the fact that the Foley story is part of a years-long congressional cover-up aided in part by the Speaker of the House have something to do with it getting more coverage than whatever happened twelve years ago with Mel Reynolds? I'd say yes; Brent Bozell would say no. You make up your own mind.

For more about Bozell, go here and here.