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PBS Pushes Democrat-Led SCOTUS ‘Ethics’ Reform: ‘What's the Holdup?'
The PBS NewsHour once again pushed the liberal crusade against conservative Supreme Court justices even as the issues has fallen off the map at other outlets. PBS is part of the matrix of liberal pressure groups, including ProPublica, aiming to hem in the conservative Supreme Court, as its decisions have turned against the left’s decades of gains, made on the cheap under an activist…
Brooks Mourns People Don't Differentiate Fatah, Hamas Terrorism
As the Biden Administration starts to go wobbly on the Israel-Hamas War with its efforts to turn four-hour temporary pauses to multiday pauses, New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour’s supposedly conservative Friday pundit praised Biden, saying “he’s done quite well.” At the same time, Brooks mourned people don’t differentiate between the types of terrorism Hamas and Fatah…
PBS Priorities:Fretting Over Phony ‘Islamophobia,’ Not Actual Jew-Hate
Thursday’s PBS NewsHour indulged in offensive moral equivalence, pretending Islamophobia in the United States was as big a threat to public safety than the current wave of violent anti-Semitism hitting progressive cities and college campuses, while also sliming Fox News hosts as endangering Muslims. Host Geoff Bennett’s segment led with “Islamophobia,” even while Jews are under attack…
PBS Invites Favorite GOP'er Kinzinger on to Denounce Undemocratic GOP
Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, recently retired from Congress, became media-famous for his loud and proud opposition to President Donald Trump and then later his time as a Republican member of the House’s January 6 Committee, handpicked by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He’s the liberal media’s ideal "Republican." Now he’s making those familiar, friendly media rounds promoting his…
PBS Celebrates Jordan Failing To Become Speaker
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks gathered for their regularly scheduled weekly news recap on PBS NewsHour on Friday by welcoming the failure of Rep. Jim Jordan to become Speaker of the House.
PBS Asserts Offensive 'Both-Sides' Narrative in Special from Israel
After perhaps 48 hours of sympathy for Israel after the anti-Jewish pogrom by Hamas, the pivot in the mainstream, pro-Palestinian press is afoot. The PBS NewsHour team demonstrated offensive moral equivalency in a special one-hour report on Friday, War in the Middle East, with host Amna Nawaz in Tel Aviv. According to the opening narration, October 7 is a day of horror for…
LOW BAR: PBS Hails Biden's Hamas Response As One Of His 'Best Weeks'
President Joe Biden managed to clear the lowest of low bars this week by not joining in with the radical left’s attempts to defend or add “context” to Hamas’s savage attack on Israel, but still, this led New York Times columnist David Brooks to hail the idea that “this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president” on Friday’s PBS NewsHour.
PBS or DNC? NewsHour Asks Jeffries NOTHING Embarrassing to Democrats
The PBS NewsHour interviewed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday night about Israel, Ukraine, and the Republican failure to elect a new Speaker of the House. Co-host Geoff Bennett asked Jeffries nothing that might be embarrassing to the Democrats -- nothing about Jamaal Bowman, or Bob Menendez, or Rashida Tlaib, or Team Biden financially enabling Iran to aid Hamas.
PBS Fetes Hillary, Endorses Biden's Bashing of GOP as ‘Semi-Fascist'
On Tuesday, the tax-funded PBS NewsHour feted Democrat Hillary Clinton, now a professor at Columbia University at the new Institute of Global Politics. She was also the losing Democratic presidential in 2016 candidate, and PBS commiserated with her with the “trauma” of losing an election to a Republican, while tarring the Trump-led GOP as extremists and letting the president himself…
PBS Warns GOP 'Cheapening' Impeachment Without a 'Holy Cow' Moment
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett on Friday for their regularly scheduled recap of the week’s top stories. The trio warned that because Republicans have “no evidence” or “holy cow” moment, they are “cheapening the whole impeachment process.”
PBS Silliness: Biden's Catholicism 'Central to How He Views the World'
The Tuesday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured liberal political writer Franklin Foer talking about his new biography of President Biden. But don’t expect Foer’s book, The Last President, to be a harsh expose like the dozens of books written about former President Trump. Foer just told NBC’s Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd that Biden "has been…
PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People
The Thursday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured host Geoff Bennett cynically using two recent murders, one of a gay dancer and another a LGBT bookstore owning ally, to bash Republicans as the perpetrators. Bennett spoke to the spokesman of the…
PBS Laments Backlash Against ESG: Ignore Those Lower Returns for Now
On Tuesday the PBS NewsHour explored how some investment firms and state comptrollers who have built their clients financial portfolios using the philosophy of “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance factors) ware facing "backlash." ESG investment standards could include investing in companies that fight so-called climate change, or investing in companies that make “equity and…
PBS: Dems Should Be More ‘Grateful’ Biden Is Their ’24 Candidate
On Friday’s NewsHour, PBS’s “conservative” pundit David Brooks sound like a Biden re-election flack, touting the President’s “incredibly strong economic recovery,” his “pretty good international peacekeeping efforts,” and who “sends off all the right cultural messages.....Democrats are not grateful enough for what they have.”
