PBS Won't Discuss a David Brooks Column When It WHACKS the Left

October 30th, 2021 10:06 PM

The PBS NewsHour will spotlight New York Times columns by their panelist David Brooks when they love them -- like his promotional interview with President Biden, or his liberal-pleasing column "The G.O.P. Is Getting Even Worse: Trumpians are having a venomous panic attack." This did not happen this week, when Brooks wrote a column titled "The Self-Isolation of the American…

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Capehart: If Dems Lose in Virginia, 'Whiteness Is a Hell of a Drug'

October 30th, 2021 4:42 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, they lamented the close race for governor in Virginia in their weekly roundup, and Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart spat out that "white grievance" was to blame, and "whiteness is a hell of a drug." 

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Capehart Lies That CRT Is Taught NOWHERE to Children in U.S. Schools

October 23rd, 2021 9:39 AM

Liberals are still brazenly lying about this. On Friday's PBS NewsHour, panelist Jonathan Capehart insisted "Critical Race Theory is not taught in elementary schools, middle schools, or high schools anywhere in the United States. If it's taught at all, it is taught in law schools." They were closing out a Friday news roundup with talk about the Virginia governor's race, and Capehart…

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PBS Uses Misleading Poll to Make Abortion Seem Popular

October 10th, 2021 5:07 PM

On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, in a pre-recorded piece, correspondent Stephanie Sy included the views of three pro-abortion activists without challenging their views, but she did find a reason to press the one pro-life activist on why she supports the Texas heartbeat law which bans most abortions. The show also cited a misleading poll which questionably claims that most Americans oppose…

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PBS on 9/11 at 20: MAGA Is Much More Threatening to US Than ISIS

September 11th, 2021 10:13 AM

On the night before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the PBS NewsHour pundit team agreed on the proposition that Trump's backers are a bigger terrorist threat than ISIS. Jonathan Capehart proclaimed "I think MAGA and the domestic terror threat is much more worrisome than any foreign threat we could face," and David Brooks nodded in assent. 

Yamiche Alcindor at PBS Displays PERFECT Partisan Contrast on COVID

September 11th, 2021 6:46 AM

Sometimes, a contrast in events displays a pretty perfect example of partisan bias. It's just sad that the example comes from personnel at taxpayer-funded PBS. Twitchy reported on PBS White House reporter and Washington Week host Yamiche Alcindor. 

Nets Skip WH Pulling ATF Nominee After Accusations of Racism Surface

September 9th, 2021 10:46 PM

NewsBusters asked and the broadcast networks answered! On Thursday, the Biden administration was forced to pull the nomination of radical gun control activist David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after evidence surfaced that he had targeted black agents with false negative reviews during promotions while at the bureau years ago. As expected, ABC, CBS,…

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On PBS, Capehart Says Afghanistan Mess Is a 'Momentary Blip' for Biden

September 4th, 2021 8:02 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC weekend host Jonathan Capehart insisted the fiasco in Afghanistan would be a "momentary blip" in the President's approval numbers. 

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Column: The Media's 'Spectacular' Stand Against Prisons

August 6th, 2021 5:59 AM

The “mainstream media” love to pretend that they represent the sensible middle ground of the ideological spectrum, but any extended look at their coverage reveals that they are incapable of finding an unsuitable extreme on the left. For example, some leftists openly advocate for the end of prisons. Are they questioned for their sanity? No. They’re given platforms for their “poetry.”

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PBS Pundits on STACKED 1/6 Panel: 'Right Call,' GOP's '90 Percent BS'

July 31st, 2021 9:24 AM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let Republicans pick their own members for her Select Committee on the January 6 riot, making the panel look obviously stacked. But on the Week in Review segment of Friday's PBS NewsHour, this was an unfortunate kerfuffle that should be overlooked. David Brooks called any complaints about the stacking "90 percent BS."

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Capehart on PBS: Pelosi Is a 'Devout Catholic' and Constitution Lover

July 3rd, 2021 6:54 PM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff finished the week-in-review segment by asking Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the Democrats creating a select committee on the January 6 Capitol riot. Capehart took out a bucket of rhetorical sugar, insisting Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not just a "devout Catholic…

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Nets Give Seconds to NYC Ballot Count Snafu, 13x to Trump Org. Charges

June 30th, 2021 9:32 PM

New York City’s Democratic primary was an absolute debacle as, yet again, the board of election somehow included over 130,000 “sample test” ballots in their preliminary update. Seemingly because this embarrassment happened in their own backyard and to their party, the Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC really didn’t want anything to do with the story. Instead, they chose to hype…

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David Brooks on PBS: 'I'm No Progressive,' But Pass Biden's $6T Budget

May 31st, 2021 9:05 PM

David Brooks protested "I'm no progressive" on Friday night's PBS NewsHour, but he has consistently supported every trillion dollars in federal spending proposed by President Biden this year.

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PBS Loses Video of David Brooks Just When He's Set to Gush Over Biden

May 22nd, 2021 9:51 PM

On Friday, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a gushy column about an interview he had with President Biden. There is no way at this point Team Biden is going to grant an interview to a journalist who isn't completely "safe" for their PR plan. On Friday night, the NewsHour wanted to help him elaborate....but the remote camera froze, and it didn't happen.