Amna Nawaz
PBS Clashes With Rufo: Deportations Make Trump a Free-Speech Hypocrite
Perhaps responding to pressure from the Trump Administration threatening federal funding of PBS and NPR over their liberal slant, the PBS News Hour is beginning to pepper its guest list with the occasional conservative. But those guests don’t get the typical soft-soap treatment reserved for liberal activists (and almost never labeled as such) but instead receive a defensive, combative…
PBS Decries 'Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution' As Trump Defunds
Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.
Brooks Hails Arrested Judge's 'Heroic' 'Civil Disobedience'
A week after calling for a “civic uprising,” New York Times columnist and PBS nominal conservative David Brooks found his first heroine in arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who is alleged to have used her courtroom to help an illegal immigrant, who was in front of her for domestic abuse, escape arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Friday’s PBS News Hour,…
PBS Raises 'Constitutional' Bar for Deporting Illegals: Trials Needed?
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour fretted over the “wrongful deportation” of the media’s favorite Maryland resident, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to El Salvador, and suggested that it's unconstitutional not to give every illegal immigrant a trial before deportation.
PBS News Segment Defends Taxpayer Funding, Dismisses Bias Criticism!
Wednesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Trump administration’s efforts to cut taxpayer funding for PBS and National Public Radio. PBS didn’t present its critics beyond generalities, while anchor Amna Nawaz and reporter William Brangham took the opportunity to lobby for themselves. Anchor Amna Nawaz: As we have been reporting, the Trump administration wants to cut the federal funds that…
Brooks on Trump, Democracy: 'We No Longer Live In That System'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled for their weekly airing of grievances on Friday night’s PBS News Hour as they discussed the news that the Trump Administration has reached deals with five top law firms to provide $600 million in pro bono work. Capehart ignored vital details of the deals to claim Trump was…
'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: PBS and NPR Delight LGBTQ Propagandists
As much as the CEOs of PBS and NPR claim to Congress they are nonpartisan and unbiased, there are many ways to demonstrate they careen to the Left. Shortly after their House hearing, the leftist Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued their "GLAAD Media Awards" and honored PBS and NPR for completely one-sided promotion of the LGBTQ agenda.
PBS Gushes Over Booker's 'Inspiring' and 'Upbeat' Speech
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour could hardly contain their excitement over Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech denouncing all things Donald Trump. Host Amna Nawaz claimed it “inspired” people, a point echoed by Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, who labeled it “inspiring.” Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Booker for…
These Four Minutes of PBS Will Convince You We Should Defund Them
People seem to assume that because PBS is dry and somewhat boring, that must also mean it’s also more serious than other news channels. But the truth is, the commentary on shows like NewsHour is as far in crazy left-wing territory as most prime time MSNBC shows, and it’s been this way since at least the 1990s.
'Democracy Is Teetering': Brooks, Capehart Decry 'Extortionist' Trump
The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”
Brooks Lauds Schumer Folding On Shutdown: 'Country's Being Decimated'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks had an actual debate on Friday’s PBS News Hour. However, it was more of an inside-the-family argument about the best way for Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump. Capehart argued that, after Senate Democrats declined to shut down the government, the party needs to grow “a spine,” while…
Barron-Lopez: If Trump Deports Hamas Supporter, He Can Deport Anyone
PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez tried to claim on Thursday that if the Trump Administration is able to successfully deport pro-Hamas Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, it can deport any legal immigrant simply for disagreeing with them.
PBS: Trump Rifling ‘Dictator’s Playbook’ Like Philippine Strongman
Monday’s PBS News Hour featured former CNN reporter Maria Ressa, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” but her tough experiences as a journalist in the Philppines taught her the wrong lessons -- that freedom of speech on social media is responsible for the rise in authoritarianism around the world, using the left-wing excuse…
PBS Tries Blackmail on GOP Budget Chair: Job Loss in Your District?
On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tried emotional blackmail to stop spending cuts – any kind of spending cut – in an interview with Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) chairman of the House Budget Committee. After challenging Arrington on Medicaid spending in the just-passed House GOP budget framework (“….Is it possible for you to guarantee that none of the 70 million people…
