PBS NewsHour Backs Racial Quotas for Doctors: ‘Diversity’ Saves Lives
The PBS News Hour Monday evening offered yet another one-sided take on a fiercely contested ideological issue: The Supreme Court’s striking down of racial preferences in college admissions. Host Amna Nawaz’s guest was a UCLA doctor and racial activist. Together, they decried the Supreme Court decision and schemed for ways to work around it, including the possibly dangerous step of lowering…
PBS Wrecks July Fourth: An ‘Ideological Tool’ of Right-Wing Extremists
The tax-funded PBS NewsHour marked the Independence Day holiday in its own inimitable style by trying to tie the patriotic celebration to right-wing extremism and the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins sat down with two liberal professors to decry the dangers of the right wing on Tuesday evening. Host Amna Nawaz set the scene for PBS’s attempt to deflate the…
PBS Cries 'Projection' As GOP Promises To Combat DOJ Weaponization
The whole point of elections is to offer multiple competing visions for the future, but this was confusing to the cast of Friday’s PBS NewsHour with host Amna Nawaz how 2024 Republicans can “undermine” federal agencies, such as the Justice Department, while seeking to run them. Washington Post associate editor also proclaimed that such campaigning represents “projection.”
PBS's Judy Woodruff Talks Reparations, Chides Pushback Against CRT
Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour presented former host Judy Woodruff’s latest entry in her bimonthly foray into America at a Crossroads, the ideological travelogue she’s taken up after retiring from the news desk. She journeyed to her birthplace in Tulsa to amplify a radical call for racial reparations and chide Republicans for allegedly making it harder to teach the history of the Tulsa race massacre…
PBS Aids Zooey Zephyr's 'Blood on Your Hands' and 'Eradication' Smears
The tax-funded PBS NewsHour on Wednesday night was the latest outlet to leap upon the cause of Montana legislator and transgender Democrat Zooey Zephyr, barred from the House chamber for violating rules of decorum during a debate on a bill that would ban so-called “gender-affirming care” for gender-dysmorphic minors wishing to surgically or chemically “transition.” The vote came after a nasty…
PBS NewsHour Co-Host Pushes Biden Aide Hard from the Left on Abortion
Before taking the job as PBS News Hour host, Amna Nawaz made her strong abortion-rights views known in an interview with the feminist news site: I think a lot about the rights that will pass on to our daughters. I think we have just lived through a Supreme Court decision that for the first time in modern history has removed rights from a population rather than expanding rights, and I think a…
PBS: Bragg, Soros Criticisms 'Anti-Semitic' With 'Racist Undertones'
PBS NewsHour twice accused GOP critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and left-wing political donor George Soros of anti-Semitism on Friday’s show. Those doing the accusing were not cantankerous liberal guests, but host Amna Nawaz and White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.
Capehart Declares Parental Rights Is about 'Targeting' 'Trans Kids'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart obsessively used the words “target” and “targeting” when describing GOP efforts to advance parental rights in education on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, claiming the whole thing is just a cover for going after “trans kids.”
PBS Hypes UN Report: Take 'Drastic Steps' on Climate or 'Catastrophe'
On Monday's PBS NewsHour, the show hyped the latest U.N, report on global warming that makes dire predictions about the climate's future while pushing for dramatic new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.
PBS Rips GOP for 'Restricting' LGBTQ Rights, Dems 'Safeguard' Rights
Tax-funded PBS NewsHour made clear where it stood on “LGBTQ” issues over two separate segments on two consecutive nights. Host Amna Nawaz introduced the Wednesday evening segment faulting the Republican governor of Tennessee for rejecting federal money for “HIV prevention": "In Tennessee, a fight has been brewing over another public health issue, HIV. It comes as several Republican-led states…
PBS Attacks Ark.Gov: GOP Trans ‘Rhetoric Leads to Real-World Violence'
PBS NewsHour host Amna Nawaz grilled former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is weighing a presidential bid for the Republican nomination, on Friday’s show. After the inevitable Trump-related queries, Nawaz peppered the genial Hutchison about recent supposedly “extreme” legislation from Arkansas about transgender and bathroom issues, while taking her own extreme stance. (This is the same…
PBS Still Hyperventilates on Gun Violence ‘Epidemic,’ ‘Assault Weapon'
The PBS NewsHour, hypersensitive to threats to “gun safety” measures (their words), sounded unpleasantly surprised on Thursday evening’s edition by a federal appeals court ruling allowing people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns, based on the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision in June 2022. It’s part of a PBS pattern emphasizing what its journalists benignly term “gun safety…
At SOTU, PBS Argues for Biden’s ‘Objectively Historic Achievements’
PBS coverage of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening begin with special pleading for the president on the NewsHour, with co-host Amna Nawaz querying Sen. John Thune (R-SD). After Thune called for more bipartisanship from Biden, Nawaz insisted that President Joe “Jim Crow 2.0” Biden had in fact been more than bipartisan. Before Biden’s long State of the Union address…
PBS Anchor Fights with GOP Rep. Chip Roy on 'Un-American' Border Bill
On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, co-host Amna Nawaz uncorked a contentious interview with Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas, especially on unprecedented illegal immigration and fentanyl pouring across the border under Biden.
