Jonathan Capehart

Not only did Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart tell the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has nobody to blame, but himself for being booed in the aftermath of the Jacksonville shooting, but that DeSantis’s policies sent a signal to those who believe “Black people are inferior and therefore are worthy of extermination.”

On his MSNBC show on Saturday, Capehart wondered out loud how Donald Trump could be leading by 24 points among Iowa Republicans. After all, the show had just rolled clips of three people at the Iowa state fair saying they want to move on to someone else!

Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.

On Jonathan Capehart's Saturday Show on MSNBC, Anthony Coley, a former senior adviser to Attorney General Merrick Garland, said he was pleased that Tanya Chutkan, the judge chosen to preside over  Donald Trump's J6 trial, had sentenced J6 defendants to longer sentences than the prosecutors had requested.

PBS NewsHour’s weekly recap with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart began with a discussion on, of all things, Republican attitudes towards climate change. During the discussion, Brooks, the supposedly conservative half of the duo, reduced oil drilling to a simple way of Republicans to offend elite…

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart may have got more than he bargained for on Friday’s PBS NewsHour as he took great offense to colleague and contributor Gary Abernathy’s assessment that the Department of Justice cannot continue to indict former President Donald Trump while giving “a sweetheart deal” to Hunter Biden and expect to be taken seriously. Later,…

Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy and associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett to recap the week that was by not only excluding any mention of the House hearing on IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, but finding consensus that Vice President Harris is correct to attack Florida Gov. Ron…

PBS NewHour host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart came together on Friday to discuss multiple-defense related controversies from the past week and accuse Republicans of “screwing up” the military for the sake of their “culture wars.”

On Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show on MSNBC, Al Sharpton suggests that Republicans opposed to affirmative action and reparations believe that blacks are "genetically inferior."

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, co-host Amna Nawaz expressed alarm that a federal judge issued a ruling that "essentially bans the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies about misinformation or disinformation online." PBS political analyst Jonathan Capehart found it mind-boggling "in the middle of a pandemic." What time machine is he traveling in?

Guests on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show compete to see who can make the ugliest slur of Casey DeSantis, wife of Ron. Former Republican David Jolly calls her "America's Karen," and Lincoln Project member Tara Setmayer calls her "a Serena Waterford wannabe," a reference to the character from The Handmaid's Tale who has been described as "the cruel, fanatically religious wife of Fred Waterford,…

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed on Friday’s PBS NewsHour that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the First Amendment protects a Christian web designer from having to create a website for same-sex weddings is “poison” for society.

Jonathan Capehart, the fill-in host for Thursday evening’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, reacted to the morning’s news of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case by launching personal attacks on the justices who had voted against it. He especially condemned their race and political ideologies as reasons that they had voted the way that they did.

Next time you catch the PBS News Hour on Friday evening (it’s partially funded by your taxes, after all), close your eyes and try to tell the difference between liberal Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and “conservative” counterpart David Brooks of the New York Times during the show’s weekly political roundtable. Capehart is one of many liberal voices on PBS…