Accused Capitol Rioter Comes From Right-Wing Royalty - "The fourth Brent Bozell is carrying on the centurylong tradition of far-right provocation by the first three Brent Bozells."
Like father like son over four generations.
BB I was born in 1886 and he was a journalist and a newspaper editor before co-founding a marketing firm that still bears his name. A firm that coined slogans like "pork: the other white meat". He fought in WWI then became a prominent member of the American Legion back in Omaha.
While it’s considered impolite to mention it, the American Legion has always been extremely right-wing. At the 1925 convention, the program declared that the Legion’s purpose was “to maintain law and order [and] to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism.” Alvin Owsley, who’d been head of the Legion just a few years before, explained that “the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States.” Bozell Sr. later became a director of an Omaha streetcar company, which hired 390 private guards and paid for guns, ammunition, and tear gas for the Omaha police to crush a strike in a particularly ugly way in 1935.
BB II was born in 1926. He met William F. Buckley Jr. in Yale, became very good friends with him, and ended up marrying his sister Patricia. After college, the two defended Senator Joseph McCarthy, for his presumed great awareness of all the Reds under our beds. BB II worked for Senator Barry Goldwater, and ghostwrote BG's book "The Conscience of a Conservative". In 1962, when BG ran for President, WFB tried to get the John Birch Society out of the conservative coalition, something that BB II didn't like. The JBS was the QAnon of its day, with its Communists-everywhere conspiracy theorizing, complete with Dwight Eisenhower being a participant.
BB II ended up moving to Spain, then ruled by right-wing dictator Francisco Franco.
BB III was born in 1955, and he founded the "Media Research Center" in 1987, dedicated to uncovering "liberal bias". One of its backers is oligarch Robert Mercer, a backer of Donald Trump. BB III has expressed more personal insights, like that Barack Obama looks "like a skinny, ghetto crackhead."
BB IV was born in 1980.
L. Brent Bozell IV, son of a prominent conservative, is charged in Capitol riot. - The New York Times - "The son of Brent Bozell, a conservative commentator, has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after being identified by wearing a sweatshirt from the Christian high school where he once worked as a girls basketball coach, court records show."