PBS NewsHour Backs Biden on 'Incredibly Consequential' Border Bill

February 8th, 2024 10:46 AM

As a controversial border security bill is held up in Congress, President Joe Biden is claiming he’s done all he can to keep the southern border secure, blaming Trump and Republicans in Congress for border woes. Yet even liberally slanted Politifact noted Biden ended President Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" program that required some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting their…

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PBS Smear Hour: Accusing Trump, Fox, and GOP of ‘Dog-Whistle’ Racism

January 30th, 2024 11:59 AM

The taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour fiercely attacked both presidential candidate Donald Trump and its journalistic competitors Fox News for racism in a segment that appeared online under the heading “Trump deploys racist tactics as Biden rematch appears likely.”  They reached back to smear Nixon and Reagan as well as they talked to a leftist about "dog-whistle politics."

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PBS Back on Its Bogus ‘Gender-Affirming Care' Bandwagon After Ohio Ban

January 28th, 2024 10:28 PM

The PBS News Hour Thursday evening circled back to its gender obsession (already documented in our study on PBS’s coverage of gender identity issues). Field reporter Stephanie Sy commiserated with an old favorite source, The 19th News, a gender-obsessed outlet named after the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the vote to women but now dismisses their…

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PBS Hails Biden's 'Objectively Good Week' Amid UAW Endorsement

January 27th, 2024 9:56 AM

The fact that a union endorsed a Democrat is not exactly Earth-shattering news, but that didn’t stop Friday PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz from trying to claim that is as she hailed President Joe Biden’s allegedly “objectively good week.”

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PBS Defends AP's Premature Iowa Call: 'Been Doing It for 170 Years'

January 19th, 2024 12:11 PM

Even some in the liberal press were a bit bothered by the Associated Press’s decision to call the Iowa caucuses for Donald Trump at 7:30 p.m., just 30 minutes after they’d begun and before some caucus-goers had even voted. The decision was especially significant, given the handwringing in the mainstream press about the dangers a second Trump term would pose to free elections and democracy…

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What a Report on South Korea's Dog-Eating Ban Teaches Us About PBS

January 12th, 2024 1:14 AM

The Public Broadcasting System is often exposed for what it is: a publicly-funded hotbed of progressive propaganda disguised as news. Left-wing biases hard-baked into its editorial lines and delivered with calm tones. But if you look hard enough, from time to time you’ll find a report that exemplifies what news delivery should be.

PBS Crowns Biden Savior of Democracy vs Trump's 'Stochastic Terrorism'

January 9th, 2024 11:17 AM

The PBS NewsHour on Friday ran with the anti-Trump talking points from the Joe Biden re-election campaign, with Biden posing as defender of democracy at the historical site Valley Forge, painting Donald Trump as a danger to democracy (never mind Biden’s Democratic Party throwing Trump off the ballot in two states and counting). Nawaz used loaded liberal language, claiming Biden was “…

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Huh? Capehart: 'Untrue' Dems Are Trying To Kick Trump Off The Ballot

January 6th, 2024 9:57 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart unleashed a real headscratcher on Friday’s PBS NewsHour as he took exception to the idea that Democrats are trying to kick Donald Trump off the ballot, declaring such claims to be “untrue” and Democrats have “nothing to do with” the efforts. Don’t expect Glenn Kessler to fact-check this one.

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PBS Anchor Reluctantly Asks Mayorkas About House GOP Impeachment Drive

January 5th, 2024 5:04 PM

On January 4, PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz interviewed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for nine minutes, but didn't get to the House Republican impeachment drive until the last question. Shouldn't that be the first question? Not when it's Republicans doing the impeaching.

PBS’s Nawaz Quotes Hamas ‘Health Officials,' Goads Israel Ambassador

December 31st, 2023 6:03 AM

Taxpayer-supported PBS again showed its ongoing hostility toward Israel in its war in Gaza against the terrorist group Hamas on Wednesday’s night episode of the NewsHour. The initial sympathy the NewsHour showed for Israel’s plight after the brutal October 7 invasion has been replaced by endless doomsaying over unavoidable civilian casualties in a war where one side, Hamas,…

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Marcus Attacks GOP For 'Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power'

December 16th, 2023 10:02 AM

In a surprising development, PBS NewsHour’s Friday weekly news recap featured almost a debate between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus on House Republicans formally approving an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with the former wondering what the big deal is and the latter labeling it a “shameful misuse of the…

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PBS or DNC? NewsHour Host Honors Liz Cheney and Her Dictator Doom

December 7th, 2023 10:49 PM

Is it the PBS NewsHour or the DNC NewsHour? Many nights, you couldn't tell the difference. Co-host Amna Nawaz interviewed Liz Cheney on Thursday, and she was just like NPR's Leila Fadel in merely facilitating all of Cheney's Republican-ripping talking points from her new book. Republican tax dollars are used to trash Republicans. 

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PBS Wokesters Look Out for Hawaii’s ‘Local Menstruators’ (AKA Women)

December 4th, 2023 12:27 PM

Thursday’s PBS NewsHour tackled the concerns of “local menstruators” in Hawaii, a story that fused the tax-funded outlet’s search for niche necessities that require government funding with its ongoing attempt to defy science and pretend humans other than biological women get periods. It’s the latest “period piece” from tax-funded PBS, whose long anti-scientific advocacy for the “…

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Brooks Plays Dumb On 'From The River To The Sea' Chants

November 18th, 2023 10:16 AM

New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour Friday weekly news recapper David Brooks claimed he isn't sure progressives know what they are talking about when they chant “from the river to the sea.” Whether Brooks actually has no idea or is playing dumb doesn’t really matter, PBS viewers deserve a better conservative perspective.