Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company Monday morning, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell slammed President Biden for his “blatantly dishonest” campaign promise to “shutdown COVID.” He remarked that the President’s upcoming press conference standing alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Dr. Antony Fauci would resemble “the three stooges.”
“Do you remember when President Biden repeatedly promised to shutdown COVID?,” host Stuart Varney asked at the top of the segment. That was followed by several clips of Biden on the 2020 campaign trail telling crowds: “I’m going to shutdown the virus!” Given a new variant of the disease, Varney wondered: “Does Omicron pose a threat for the Democrats in the 2022 elections?”
Bozell saw major political trouble for Democrats: “Well, I think everything that’s going on right now poses a threat to them, because this administration doesn’t know what it’s doing, it’s being blatantly dishonest.” He noted that Biden was “the same guy who said that a $3.5 trillion bill didn’t cost anything” and that leftist politicians were “capable of saying anything that they believe will get them elected.”
After predicting that “Joe Biden is not going to stop” the pandemic through political rhetoric, Bozell referred to the upcoming White House presser on the topic: “This idea of this press conference coming up, by the way, Stuart, I just had a visual of him in the middle and Fauci on one side and Harris on the other and you got the three stooges.”
The biggest concern the left-wing media have had so far with regard to the Omicron variant has been how it will threaten Biden’s radical agenda.
Varney observed: “Is the White House feeling the effects of COVID fatigue?...No mood at all for new mandates or new restrictions. I think the White House knows that and I think they’re going to be very reluctant to impose any new restrictions on us.”
Bozell replied in part:
The idea that the President is going to do something or the idea that this – all these mandates aren’t causing harm is pure poppycock. The reason he is saying that he’s not going to have anymore – he’s not going to do any kind of mandate, given this new variant, is because he knows mandates just don’t work.
The segment concluded with Varney discussing Bozell’s new memoir: “I’ve just got a few seconds to talk about your book and I want to get it in. It’s coming out on December 7, that’s an auspicious day if ever I heard one. It’s called Stops Along The Way; A Catholic Soul, A Conservative Heart, An Irish Temper and A Love of Life.”
Bozell previewed what readers could expect:
It’s a completely different book. It’s a book about stories, they’re all true stories, such as a story about a man whose most responsible for the economic – the Reagan economic recovery program and 99% of your audience has never heard of him...A whole series of stories, it’s perfect Christmas reading.
Here is a full transcript of the November 29 segment:
11:52 AM ET
STUART VARNEY: Do you remember when President Biden repeatedly promised to shutdown COVID? Roll tape.
JOE BIDEN [OCTOBER 29, 2020]: I’m not going to shutdown the economy! I’m not going to shutdown the country! I’m going to shutdown the virus!
BIDEN [OCTOBER 30, 2020]: I’ve said before, I’m not going to shutdown the economy.
BIDEN [NOVEMBER 16, 2020]: Once we shutdown the virus and deliver economic relief to workers and businesses, then we can start to build back better than before.
VARNEY: Well look whose here now , the man himself, Brent Bozell. Does Omicron pose a threat for the Democrats in the 2022 elections?
BRENT BOZELL: Well, I think everything that’s going on right now poses a threat to them, because this administration doesn’t know what it’s doing, it’s being blatantly dishonest. Look, this is the same man who – you just rolled the tape where he promises to end the pandemic. You know, he’s the same guy who said that a $3.5 trillion bill didn’t cost anything. They are capable of saying anything that they believe will get them elected.
Nothing is going to stop this pandemic from the standpoint that it is going to continue to morph. We all know this, probably for the rest of our lives, and Joe Biden is not going to stop it.
This idea of this press conference coming up, by the way, Stuart, I just had a visual of him in the middle and Fauci on one side and Harris on the other and you got the three stooges.
VARNEY: That’s a terrible thing to say there, but interesting. Is the White House feeling the effects of COVID fatigue? What I mean by that is I was out and about over Thanksgiving and I saw people behaving very normally. Large groups of people shopping, eating dinner, et cetera, et cetera. No mood at all for new mandates or new restrictions. I think the White House knows that and I think they’re going to be very reluctant to impose any new restrictions on us. What say you?
BOZELL: Well you know, I had 26 people in my house for Thanksgiving. In the last week, three different people have told me how they walk through airports without their masks on, just simply not giving a darn anymore , and nobody said anything to them. The idea that the President is going to do something or the idea that this – all these mandates aren’t causing harm is pure poppycock. The reason he is saying that he’s not going to have anymore – he’s not going to do any kind of mandate, given this new variant, is because he knows mandates just don’t work. They know it finally.
VARNEY: I’ve just got a few seconds to talk about your book and I want to get it in. It’s coming out on December 7, that’s an auspicious day if ever I heard one. It’s called Stops Along The Way; A Catholic Soul, A Conservative Heart, An Irish Temper and A Love of Life. Is there anything else you’d like to tell me about it?
BOZELL: Well, you know, it’s gonna be – it’s a completely different book, and here it is, BozellBook.com. It’s a completely different book. It’s a book about stories, they’re all true, stories such as a story about a man whose most responsible for the economic – the Reagan economic recovery program and 99% of your audience has never heard of him.
VARNEY: Who is it?
BOZELL: Stories like – you gotta buy the book. I’ll tell you, John Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. The story of this man’s life.
VARNEY: Okay.
BOZELL: A whole series of stories, it’s perfect Christmas reading.
VARNEY: Okay, send me a free copy and I’ll figure it out.
BOZELL: You know I will.
VARNEY: I’m joking. Brent, you’re alright, thanks for joining us, fella. Great to see you.
BOZELL: Thanks, Stuart.
