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Portentous PBS Plugs NBC Reporter's Book on Scary TX Anti-CRT Movement
Monday’s PBS News Hour handed over a news segment to an ostensible ratings rival, NBC News and its reporter/podcaster Mike Hixenbaugh, who has a new book out with the portentous title They Came for the Schools -- One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms. Hixenbaugh and his onscreen NBC reporting counterpart Antonia Hylton have…
PBS Taps Activist Psychiatrist to Advocate Gender Surgeries for Youth
Transgender youth researcher and psychiatrist Dr. Jack Turban once again appeared on PBS News Weekend, this time plugging his new book Free to Be: Understanding Kids and Gender Identity. Turban is director of the Gender Psychiatry Program at the University of California, San Francisco and of course a strong supporter of controversial gender identity…
Stephanopoulos Warns Again About 'Shameful' Trump on PBS's 'Amanpour'
On Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS, journalist Walter Isaacson talked to George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative in President Bill Clinton’s White House and now the cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and the Sunday political roundtableThis Week, about his new book The Situation Room -- The Inside Story of Presidents in…
Pants on Fire: Psaki to Alter Book for Lying About Biden, Afghanistan
Axios White House reporter Alex Thompson flagged on Monday former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s new memoir Say More will have an altered passage in future printings following the revelation that it falsely claimed President Biden never looked at his watch during the August 29, 2021 dignified transfer of remains for the 13 Americans murdered in Kabul during the U.S.’s disastrous…
PBS Roundtable: Just How 'Authoritarian' Is Trump? Let's Ask Jon Karl
Jonathan Karl is chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and author of Tired of Winning, Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. It’s his third expose of Trump’s one-term presidency, and he even admitted to writing this one as a warning to voters. Naturally, PBS’s tax-supported political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic invited Karl on to…
NY Times Puts Conservative 'Book Bans' on Page One, Buries Maine Story
The top left corner of Monday’s New York Times tackled the “book bans” in Idaho and Iowa. Conservative activists were disparaged over 2,600 words. But the same reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, filed a shorter story on leftist censors in Maine opposing Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. It didn't make the paper.
On PBS, Ex-NYT Reporter Pushes ‘Public Health Fascism,' Citing China
There was much media angst over Donald Trump declaring he would be a dictator on “Day One” of a second term in office to promote border security and oil drilling. Scrape off the spicy language, and it sounds more like the standard executive orders every president issues upon taking…
PBS: Dems Have a Far Left, And It’s Amazing (Plus Secret Lefty Biden?)
PBS NewsHour anchor Geoff Bennett was right about one thing regarding a new book by journalist Joshua Green, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle For a New American Politics: "what doesn't get nearly as much attention is the far left's influence in the Democratic Party." But the Green interview skipped controversies and any…
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The View’, Psaki RUN SCARED at Cruz Requests to Debate
NewsBusters has learned that, as part of his press tour promoting his latest book Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America (which was released on November 7), ABC’s The View turned down a pitch from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to enter the lion’s den for a third time to spar with the far-left, unhinged co-hosts and faux Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin.
PBS in Thrall: Israel's ‘Decades-Long System…Producing This Bloodshed'
PBS’s Amanpour & Co. show hosted journalist and anti-Israel activist Nathan Thrall, author of the non-fiction book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. His ostensible subject was a Palestinian father whose son who died in a bus accident, and emergency response was delayed by Israeli security bureaucracy, but of course the story was twisted to symbolize the plight of the Palestinians…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Streets of San Francisco
At least California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, admits it. On the eve of a visit to San Francisco by China’s Xi Jinping, the city somehow, someway cleared out downtown homeless encampments. Newsom flat-out cops to the reason why. The governor said, “Folks say, ‘Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’ That’s true.…
ABC’s Karl Uses New Anti-Trump Book to Warn of ‘Third Reich’ Rhetoric
On Tuesday, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl’s third anti-Trump book hits shelves and will send Resistance types into further episodes of collective hyperventilation over Trump and the GOP as threats to national security who must be crushed in 2024. Karl hawked the book on Monday’s Good Morning America and lashed out at voters for “not” having “paid much attention to…
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…
Who Will Read This (Besides Us)? Psaki to Release Book, Dish on Doocy
This week, former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced she’d be coming out with a book about her career in Democratic politics entitled Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World. In a post on X, Psaki said Tuesday that the book will have “[l]ot’s of stories (Obama, Biden and yes…even Peter Doocy are in there)” as well as “lessons learned over my time…
