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PBS Hypes ‘Popular Authoritarian Movement Within the Republican Party'
On Thursday’s taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour, notoriously liberal correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez interviewed two Harvard professors about their new anti-Republican tome: "Can you first establish when you, as someone who is an expert in the collapse of democracies, diagnosed that there is now a popular authoritarian movement within the Republican Party?"

PBS Hosts Rip Elon Musk: Racist, Sexist, 'Potentially Dangerous Man'
Two shows that air on tax-funded PBS, the NewsHour and Amanpour & Co., invited journalist and Amanpour regular Walter Isaacson to discuss his new biography of entrepreneur Elon Musk who now owns X (formerly Twitter). The results were less cozy than the usual journalist-to-journalist validation, with the reliably liberal Isaacson getting testy over some of the questions…

PBS Warns GOP 'Cheapening' Impeachment Without a 'Holy Cow' Moment
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett on Friday for their regularly scheduled recap of the week’s top stories. The trio warned that because Republicans have “no evidence” or “holy cow” moment, they are “cheapening the whole impeachment process.”

State-Run PBS Rolls Over to Biden Aide Demanding More Pro-Biden Bias
Biden aide Ian Sams put out a memo demanding the "independent media" must "ramp up the scrutiny" of House Republicans. PBS NewsHour promptly put Sams on taxpayer-funded TV to rip the Republicans for having "no evidence."

PBS on Biden Impeachment News:'Far-Right' GOP's Unsubstantiated Claims
Tuesday's PBS NewsHour ran two segments on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, extending the ongoing investigations by congressional Republicans into the president’s possible involvement in his son’s business dealings. The supposedly objective tax-supported outlet showered McCarthy with “far-right” labels. A favored phrase of the…

PBS Silliness: Biden's Catholicism 'Central to How He Views the World'
The Tuesday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured liberal political writer Franklin Foer talking about his new biography of President Biden. But don’t expect Foer’s book, The Last President, to be a harsh expose like the dozens of books written about former President Trump. Foer just told NBC’s Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd that Biden "has been…

Brooks Alleges Republicans 'Don't Really Have Anything' On Bidens
New York Times columnist David Brooks is supposed to be the conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s Brooks and Capehart weekly roundup, but often fails to deliver. Such was the case on Friday as Brooks dismissed the DOJ’s decision to indict Hunter Biden on gun charges as an “ancillary issue” and claim Republicans “don't really have anything” on Joe Biden.

PBS Weeps Over Denying ‘Gender-affirming Care’ for TX Transgender Kids
Friday’s edition of the tax-supported PBS NewsHour reacted with alarm about news that what the left calls “gender-affirming medical care” for children (i.e., puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and irrevocable surgeries) has been outlawed in Texas. Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez: "...it's important to note that all of the major American medical associations say that this is -- gender-…

PBS: GOP Has ‘Turned Up Volume on Violence’ Against Trans People
The Thursday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured host Geoff Bennett cynically using two recent murders, one of a gay dancer and another a LGBT bookstore owning ally, to bash Republicans as the perpetrators. Bennett spoke to the spokesman of the…

Capehart: DeSantis Signals Those Who Believe Blacks Are 'Inferior'
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.”

PBS's Nawaz Cues Dem to Blame Racist Jacksonville Shooting on DeSantis
On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour show, host Amna Nawaz was still fixated on promoting the views of liberals who try to blame Governor Ron DeSantis for a racist shooting spree in Jacksonville as the PBS host interviewed the mayor of the city, Donna Deegan, an elected Democrat.

PBS Laments Backlash Against ESG: Ignore Those Lower Returns for Now
On Tuesday the PBS NewsHour explored how some investment firms and state comptrollers who have built their clients financial portfolios using the philosophy of “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance factors) ware facing "backlash." ESG investment standards could include investing in companies that fight so-called climate change, or investing in companies that make “equity and…

PBS Suggests ‘DeSantis at Least Partly Responsible' For Racist Murders
Errin Haines, editor at large of The 19th news nonprofit, was invited onto Monday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS NewsHour to spread disgusting smears of prominent Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Haines held DeSantis “at least partly responsible” for the racist murders for his stands against woke propaganda in state education. First…

Panic! PBS Brings on Michael Mann to Blame Disasters on Global Warming
On Tuesday evening, PBS NewsHour promoted environmental alarmism by giving climate scientist Michael Mann a forum to plug his new book and call for an unrealistic cutback in the use of fossil fuels.