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More Advance Praise for UNMASKED “Every conservative must read Unmasked—a crucial tool to counter the left in the ongoing battle to save our country and restore freedom in America.” —DAVID MCINTOSH PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB FOR GROWTH “Bozell and his staff of media watchers compile quotes, outrages, and studies that devastate the idea that the news media are referees of our political debates. It’s even worse than you think. Unmasked will prove it.” —FORMER SENATOR JIM DEMINT CHAIRMAN, CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE “Brent Bozell has been exposing the media’s shameless liberal bias for more than thirty years. But it’s never been worse out there than it is under President Trump. Bozell shows how the ‘objective’ press has crossed every line, erased every boundary, and avoided every ounce of decency in going after this president.” —ADAM BRANDON PRESIDENT OF FREEDOMWORKS “Unmasked is a vitally important and timely book that exposes the massive propaganda attack designed to undermine and even topple a duly elected president and his administration.” —EDWIN MEESE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER RONALD REAGAN “Brent Bozell and Tim Graham document the war on the President—the media’s abandonment of even a pretext of impartiality—in a must read for every American.” —RON ROBINSON PRESIDENT OF YOUNG AMERICA’S FOUNDATION “Unmasked is a carefully documented analysis of how the media, and their Hollywood allies, have been at war against Donald Trump from the get-go. What has sent them over the edge, as the authors make plain, is their utter failure to convince the public that they’re right. Bozell and Graham have hit this one out of the park, dazzling the reader with indisputable evidence.” —BILL DONOHUE PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS “Brent Bozell alerts and enlightens us on the agenda of an ideological liberal progressive media machine. Benjamin Franklin challenged us, ‘a Republic if you can keep it.’ Bozell’s book enables us to meet that challenge to preserve the last great hope for mankind, these United States of America.” —LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALLEN B. WEST (US ARMY, RETIRED), MEMBER, 112TH US CONGRESS “Fake news is real! Brent Bozell and Tim Graham unmask the news media, clearly revealing that they have become the opposition party to constitutional governance.” —TONY PERKINS PRESIDENT, FAMILY RESEARCH CENTER AND PRESIDENT, COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY “The ‘objective’ press is constantly tilting the field of politics, engaging in all kinds of unsportsmanlike conduct. What makes Unmasked so devastating is that the evidence it provides is irrefutable. Conservatives must read this book.” —SENATOR MIKE LEE R-UTAH UNMASKED Humanix Books UNMASKED Copyright © 2019 by Humanix Books All rights reserved Humanix Books, P.O. Box 20989, West Palm Beach, FL 33416, USA www.humanixbooks.com | [email protected] No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any other information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Humanix Books is a division of Humanix Publishing, LLC. Its trademark, consisting of the word “Humanix,” is registered in the Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. ISBN: 978-163006-115-9 (Hardcover) ISBN: 978-163006-116-6 (E-book) Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Rush Limbaugh, an old friend. One shudders to consider where the country would be today but for you. Contents Preface by L. Brent Bozell III 1 The Inevitable Trump Loss That Didn’t Happen 2 Defining Our Terms 3 It All Sucks 4 Good News Is No News 5 Dying in Darkness 6 Those So-Called Fact Checkers 7 The Snowflakes in Tinseltown 8 The Midterms and Beyond 9 The Russian Obsession Afterword The Top Ten: Who Hates Trump the Most? Acknowledgments Index Preface “I Was Prepared Not to Like Donald Trump” HE HAD THAT CELEBRITY handle, “The Donald,” but for most people he was just Trump, and I confess that I never cared much for Trump. Blowhard, raunchy playboy, controversial businessman, endless self- promoter, jerk—all these things defined the public Donald Trump as seen by his critics. Politics never seemed to be a top-shelf concern for this man, but when he did speak out, the narrative was doctrinaire liberal Democrat, championing Obama, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton while celebrating Planned Parenthood, single-payer health insurance, environmental excesses, and the like. In recent years he’d been singing from a different sheet. He was becoming increasingly critical of President Obama, but it came with an inexplicable fixation on that damn birth certificate, which all along was the least provable and therefore most irrelevant accusation against the President. It was little more than a clarion call for conspiracy theorists and certainly unbecoming of a dignified contender. Trump had made noises about running in 2008, but virtually nobody took him seriously, and when nothing materialized, those who bothered to care chalked it up to another Trump publicity stunt. Again in 2012 he flirted with a presidential run. “I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election,” he boasted. But again nothing. Bluster? Fear? The realization that he couldn’t win? No telling. Trump was Trump. But in 2014 and early 2015, things seemed to be changing. He was becoming more comprehensively outspoken in his condemnation of Obama and the Democrats, and though he didn’t seem to be wildly enthusiastic about the GOP, it was becoming evident that that was his destination. Word circulated that he was hiring staff in the early-primary states. More telling than this, Trump was doing deliberate outreach to some of the strongest voices in the conservative movement, such as my old friend talk radio giant Mark Levin, along with some of the most influential activist leaders in the movement, such as Citizens United head David Bossie, a longtime companion in the political trenches. It was Bossie who urged me to meet Donald Trump. I was skeptical. When I questioned Trump’s sudden conversion to the side of the angels,