Hacks for Hamas: PBS Sees ‘Staggering Milestone in Gaza’ on Death Toll

November 8th, 2023 10:47 AM

Even more so than the network evening news shows, the PBS NewsHour and PBS News Weekend news programs have been obsessed with the death toll in Gaza during Israel’s counterattack, even to the point of downplaying the latest Trump courtroom dramas (usually catnip for the liberal press) in order to lead every night with the grim scenes out of Gaza. It’s a one-sided view that…

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PBS NewsHour Agenda: Trashing Conservatives in Congress Is What We Do

November 6th, 2023 11:24 AM

The "Week In Review" segment at the PBS NewsHour on Friday nights is a popular segment. That might be because liberals love the way they trash conservative Republicans routinely. Sen. Tommy Tuberville was the primary target, but Jonathan Capehart trashed new House Speaker Mike Johnson. Brooks said he wouldn't do that. He compared him to FDR, and then insisted FDR is a giant next to "…

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PBS Priorities:Fretting Over Phony ‘Islamophobia,’ Not Actual Jew-Hate

November 5th, 2023 8:50 PM

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

November 2nd, 2023 11:05 PM

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…

On PBS, Nawaz Pushes for Ceasefire, Cites Hamas’s Phony Fatality Lists

October 29th, 2023 4:04 PM

On Tuesday’s edition of the tax-supported PBS News Hour, host Amna Nawaz disgracefully pushed Hamas’s fatality numbers while using the hostages taken by the Palestinian terrorist group as a rationale for the ridiculous idea of a ceasefire.  When Regev brought up “the inflated numbers” issued by Hamas (under the guise of the Gaza Health Ministry) Nawaz snapped back: “Do you have more…

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PBS Freaks 'Far-Right' Johnson Promotes 'Christian Nationalism'

October 28th, 2023 9:58 AM

Washington Post associate editor and New York Times columnist freaked out on Friday’s PBS NewsHour at the news that Republicans selected Mike Johnson to be the new Speaker of the House by portraying him as a “far-right” religious extremist out to impose “Christian nationalism” on the country.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Red-Hot Republican Haters at PBS NewsHour

October 27th, 2023 10:27 PM

The P in PBS doesn't really stand for "Public." The PBS NewsHour hates the Republican half of the public, and finds it easy to put on guests that compare today's Trump Republicans with Hitler and the mass-murdering Nazis. And yet they support using body counts from Hamas....

PBS Puffs Lincoln Project ‘Republican’ Smearing GOP As the New Nazis

October 27th, 2023 10:27 AM

Stuart Stevens, former Republican strategist and senior advisor to disgraced
“Republican” group the Lincoln Project, got the royal treatment on the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour program. Stevens, promoting his new anti-Republican book The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy, is the media’s favorite kind of Republican…

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NPR Reporter on PBS: Most House Republicans Want to 'Burn It All Down'

October 24th, 2023 6:43 AM

The PBS NewsHour Monday night pundits lamented the "so-called establishment" of the GOP being "undermined" by right-wingers, going back to Newt Gingrich in 1994. NPR reporter Tamara Keith said most House Republicans want to "burn it all down" and refuse to compromise.

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PBS Celebrates Jordan Failing To Become Speaker

October 21st, 2023 11:49 AM

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.

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PBS Won’t Trust Israel on Hospital: It’s ‘Carried Out Strikes' Before

October 20th, 2023 6:28 PM

On Wednesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour concerning an errant Palestinian rocket that landed near a hospital in the Gaza Strip and killed many, show host Amna Nawaz offensively attempted to leave the question of responsibility open: Could the untrustworthy Israeli military still be blamed for the bombing? Nawaz talked to National Security Adviser Jon Finer and led off with the…

NewsBusters Podcast: Let's Call Jim Jordan a Terrorist, But Not Hamas

October 18th, 2023 10:27 PM

While some media outlets -- especially "public broadcasters" -- eschew using the word "terrorist" to describe Hamas and Islamic Jihad, PBS and NBC and MSNBC were enjoying describing Jim Jordan as a "terrorist," because bitter former Speaker John Boehner smeared him in 2021.

PBS: Family Separation at Border Like U.S. 'Enslavement & Internment'

October 18th, 2023 3:49 PM

On Tuesday’s edition of the PBS NewsHour, host Amna Nawaz of the tax-supported public broadcasting show offensively compared the Trump family separation at the border to Japanese internment camps during World War II and even slavery. She was discussing a settlement proposed by the Biden administration that would reward migrant families broken up at the border during the Trump years…

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Loving CAIR: PBS Coddles Hamas-Linked Group, Hints GOP Rhetoric Deadly

October 17th, 2023 8:46 PM

CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, is an Islamic pressure group masquerading as a Muslim civil rights organization. The Hamas massacre in Israel has brought it back in the news on the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour – but not for its previously documented links to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. No, the PBS producers somehow thought it was a good idea to book an…