Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Lars Larson Show Thursday night to expose how AI chatbots are unfairly blaming Republicans for the 2025 government shutdown.

Bozell revealed that MRC’s Free Speech America team put major AI chatbots—including ChatGPT, Meta AI, and X’s Grok—to the test by asking a simple, one-word question: "Who is more responsible for the 2025 government shutdown—Republicans or Democrats?"

“All blamed Republicans for the 2025 shutdown,” Bozell told Larson, “and they just cite Democrat-friendly outlets like NPR, PBS, which are still among us, at least for the time being, temporarily, and Wikipedia, as their sources.”

Bozell warned that as AI becomes more integrated into everyday life, its left-leaning slant poses serious implications for how Americans access and interpret information.

He also pointed out the irony that even traditionally liberal outlets like The Washington Post have been more balanced than AI on the current shutdown debate. “The oddity is, the Washington Post has been more neutral about this shutdown than these new AI tools,” Bozell said. “Its editorial board actually said, ‘The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.’ Can you imagine that?”

Bozell warned that this growing AI bias isn’t a glitch — it’s a reflection of the same left-wing narratives dominating legacy media. He called for fairness, not favoritism, from tech companies shaping public opinion.