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PBS Defends Walz From 'Pouncing' Trump, Suggests He's 'More Moderate'
After the Kamala Harris campaign named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett conducted a cozy interview with his fellow Minnesota pol, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, on Tuesday evening, and quickly transformed himself into a liberal media cliché. Bennett: "The Trump campaign is already pouncing, calling him dangerously liberal and saying that the Harris/Walz…

PBS's Barron-Lopez Turns to Prof to Defend 'Dignity' of Kamala, Obama
The Saturday edition of PBS News Weekend was hosted by the paper’s most liberal reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and she took full advantage, harkening back to Donald Trump’s wild appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists to accuse the former president of appealing to racists and anti-semites. Providing PBS-selected back up was a hard-left academic who hailed the…

PBS Only Evening Newscast to Report Firing of UNRWA 9 Over 10/7 Attack
As the Middle East braces for war, a major news story broke yet went unreported across the major evening network newscasts: The United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency, known as UNRWA, fired nine employees over their potential involvement in Hamas’ barbaric October 7th attack against Israel.

Harris Hits Trail with Name-Calling, PBS Adds Own 'Creepy' Phrase
Friday’s PBS News Hour followed Laura Barron-Lopez on the Kamala Harris campaign trail, testing out the Democrats’ new line of personal attack: Branding Republicans as “weird” and “creepy.” Barron-Lopez dropped her previous sensitivity to rhetoric and seemed to approve of the new tactic.

On Prisoner Swap, Capehart Gushes 'Not Bad For An 82-Year-Old Man'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had nothing but effusive praise for President Joe Biden on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he marveled at the prisoner swap with Russia being, “not bad for an 82-year-old man everyone said had cognitive decline and were questioning his mental acuity.”

Pro-Abortion Kamala Excites Atlanta Rally (and PBS's Barron-Lopez)
PBS’s most biased reporter, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, showed still more excitement about the fledgling Kamala Harris campaign at a rally in Atlanta, on Tuesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour. First, anchor Geoff Bennett pumped up Democratic optimism in red-leaning Georgia: Vice president Kamala Harris campaigns in Georgia, a state that's now even more hotly…

PBS Pundit Tamara Keith RIPS Vance's 'Really Terrible, No-Good Week'
On the Monday PBS News Hour, NPR White House reporter and PBS pundit Tamara Keith ripped into Sen. J.D. Vance having a "really terrible, no-good week" as the pro-Biden media endlessly rehash his 2021 comments about "childless cat ladies."

PBS’s Laura Barron-Lopez Poses Trump 2.0 as 'Catastrophic' to LGBTQ
PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, whose reporting down the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election has so far been wretchedly partisan, was at it again on Friday’s edition, painting a potential second Trump Administration as a threat to the lives of transgenders, and even chiding the Biden Administration for suggesting transgender surgery on minors…

PBS's Laura Barron-Lopez Scolds: Saying 'Kamala' Wrong Is Racist!
White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez has been extremely protective of fledgling Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and Thursday evening’s PBS News Hour opened with ten minutes of Barron-Lopez celebrating Harris and bashing her Republican critics as racist. She aired Donald Trump’s counter-argument from a campaign rally (“Trump portrayed Harris as a liberal extremist”), then…

PBS Spin: Harris Challenge Would Be Good, No Challenge = 'Party Unity'
On Sunday, after President Biden announced he would not run for re-election, political reporter Domenico Montanaro of National Public Radio turned up on PBS News Weekend and sounded exceedingly optimistic about the prospects of the presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. Montanaro engaged in pro-Democrat happy talk and managed to have it both ways,…

PBS: Trump Is 'Uglier And Darker' Than 2016 On Immigration
PolitiFact may have teamed up with PBS for the remainder of the 2024 election cycle, but perhaps they should be checking PBS News Hour instead because on Friday, host Amna Nawaz falsely claimed Donald Trump was using “more dangerous, kind of, vicious language” in targeting “black and brown immigrants” than he was in 2016.

PBS Hurls Bad Fact Checks; Vote Concerns May Stir ‘Political Violence'
PBS’s biased coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention began even before the main event, on Wednesday evening’s PBS News Hour, aiming not only to fact-check the Republicans but even to suggest some Republican voting “misinformation” was dangerous. The tax-funded network’s first fact-check target was…reality TV star, Savannah Chrisley, who discussed her family’s…

PBS RNC Night 2: Echoing 'White Supremacist Notions,' No 'Illegals'
Night Two of coverage of the Republican National Convention was “Make America Safe Once Again,” with politicians and ordinary Americans making speeches relaying stories about crime and the illegal immigration that causes some of that crime. PBS reporters and anchors sounded the alarm from the start, warning that Republicans are trying to instill unwarranted fear and anxiety in voters. At 7:08…

PBS's Capehart Can't Handle Host's Truth:'The Left Has Vilified' Trump
PBS’s coverage of Night One of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got off to a bad start during an interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, who’d just delivered an early speech to the convention delegates. At 8:07 ET, News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who is hosting the network’s taxpayer-funded convention coverage along with fellow News Hour co…