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Capehart Laments Lack Of 'Nuanced' Discussion On Men In Women's Sports

March 8th, 2025 9:42 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast appearance with conservative Charlie Kirk, where he dissented from the party line, continued the nation’s alleged inability to have “nuanced and thoughtful” conversations about transgender people participating in women’s sports.

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MSNBC Admits Border Crossings Down, But Denies There Was a Crisis

March 7th, 2025 11:54 PM

On The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart admitted that illegal border crossings are now at a record low, but seemed to do so only so he could scoff at President Donald Trump for wanting to send more troops to the border.

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PBS Freaks Trump Entering 'Sinister Territory' Amid Press Pool Changes

March 1st, 2025 9:50 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was not interested in subtlety, nuance, or level-headedness as they discussed recent media news. Host Amna Nawaz wondered if “we’re in much more sinister territory now” due to the changes surrounding the White House press pool. Both Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks agreed,…

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PBS Mourns a Month Of 'Ivy League Right-Wing Nihilism'

February 15th, 2025 9:41 AM

PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

February 10th, 2025 1:00 PM

The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is….

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Capehart Gets Triggered At Suggestion Biden Abused Executive Power

February 8th, 2025 2:00 PM

Against the backdrop of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives, Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart got triggered on Friday’s PBS News Hour when the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti reminded him that former President Joe Biden abused executive power on his student loan order. Capehart argued that comparisons were “apples and…

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POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week? 

February 7th, 2025 9:45 AM

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)

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Brooks Laughs at Capehart Declaring 'Democrats Aren't In Trouble'

February 1st, 2025 9:47 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had an eventful time on Friday’s installment of PBS NewsHour. First, Capehart did his typical thing where he alleged President Trump’s recent press conference included “some of the most racist things I have ever heard come out of the White House.” Later, he said something so absurd that the usually amenable New York Times

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MSNBC's Capehart Frets Trump Would Take Citizenship from Blacks

January 28th, 2025 6:42 AM

On MSNBC's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart fretted and fearmongered that President Donald Trump's drive to put more limits on birthright citizenship could mean that blacks who are descended from slaves might also be stripped of citizenship.

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Capehart: Laken Riley Act is Causing 'Terror' in 'Immigrant Families'

January 25th, 2025 9:40 AM

For the first Brooks and Capehart segment of Donald Trump 2.0 on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart alleged that “the Laken Riley Act and other things” are instilling fear in immigrant families, even those who are not “undocumented.”

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Capehart Wonders If Voters 'Gave Up On Democracy'

January 18th, 2025 9:40 AM

During the Biden era’s final installment of Brooks and Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart sought to rebut New York Times columnist David Brooks’s assertion that Donald Trump’s election shows Joe Biden failed to protect democracy. Instead, Capehart argued it was the voters who “gave up on democracy” and wanted to “…

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'Great Punishment': Capehart Celebrates Trump's Sentencing

January 11th, 2025 9:36 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart did a touchdown dance of sorts on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he celebrated Donald Trump’s “great punishment” of being formally sentenced to unconditional discharge that history “will have to” mention.

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PBS Hails 'The Glow Around' Jimmy Carter's Post-Presidency

January 4th, 2025 9:54 AM

PBS News Hour’s first weekly recap featuring Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks of the new year concluded with the duo taking turns singing the praises of former President Jimmy Carter and “the glow around him.” While one might have expected the liberal Capehart to say such things, the supposedly conservative Brooks failed to even…

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WORST OF 2024: The Damn Those Conservatives Award

December 27th, 2024 9:30 AM

Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Damn Those Conservatives Award. Why must they be so crass?