9/25/2005 - MMFA Disputes MRC's Brent Bozell's Claim that Neil Cavuto's Interview with Bush Months ago Was Not a "puff-job"
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MMFA, in an attempt to put out hypocrisy on the part of Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center, said this in a Sept. 21 item:
September 21 column by criticizing the media for lobbing softball questions at Clinton, claiming that they offered him "shoeshines" and "backrubs" and that "he public deserves better." But in his June 15 column, Bozell defended Fox News host Neil Cavuto against accusations that he "wasn't tough enough" during a June 8 interview of President Bush. Bozell claimed that Cavuto's interview "was no puff job" and that Cavuto asked "some challenging questions." Among the questions Cavuto asked Bush that Bozell defended were "Do you think you get a bum rap in the media on the economy?" and "Do you ever get mad at your fellow Republicans?"
Hmmm.... Some other questions to Bush?
CAVUTO: Speaking of civil liberties, one of your predecessors, Jimmy Carter, was very critical of our operations at Guantanamo Bay, saying they should be shut down, that abuses there, if proven true, are dragging our name through the mud globally. What do you make of that?
CAVUTO: But now President Carter has said, sir, shut it [Guantanamo] down. Joe Biden said shut it down. Do you think it should be shut down?
CAVUTO: But you've been warning about this [depebdency on foreign oil], Mr. President. Four years ago, you said this. But you've had a Republican Congress to push these things through, and nothing.
CAVUTO: So when you see these polls that show your popularity ebbing a bit, it doesn't frustrate you?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158960,00.html
To reiterate Bozell, it was no "puff-job"...
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