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PBS Accuses GOP of 'Screwing Up' The Military For 'Culture Wars'

July 15th, 2023 9:52 AM

PBS NewHour host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart came together on Friday to discuss multiple-defense related controversies from the past week and accuse Republicans of “screwing up” the military for the sake of their “culture wars.”

PBS Notices COVID Learning Loss, Doesn’t Notice Cause: Teachers Unions

July 14th, 2023 1:05 PM

The media may occasionally observe the massive learning loss caused by shuttered schools during the COVID pandemic, an unnecessary and actively harmful measure encouraged by left-wing teachers unions, which protested reopening schools, sometimes with disgusting anti-back-to-school protests, even after it was obvious that children were the group least affected by COVID. But there was no mention…

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PBS NewsHour Backs Racial Quotas for Doctors: ‘Diversity’ Saves Lives

July 13th, 2023 8:25 AM

The PBS News Hour Monday evening offered yet another one-sided take on a fiercely contested ideological issue: The Supreme Court’s striking down of racial preferences in college admissions. Host Amna Nawaz’s guest was a UCLA doctor and racial activist. Together,  they decried the Supreme Court decision and schemed for ways to work around it, including the possibly dangerous step of…

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Capehart Claims Biden Needs to Censor in the 'Middle of a Pandemic'

July 10th, 2023 6:18 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, co-host Amna Nawaz expressed alarm that a federal judge issued a ruling that "essentially bans the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies about misinformation or disinformation online." PBS political analyst Jonathan Capehart found it mind-boggling "in the middle of a pandemic." What time machine is he traveling in?

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PBS Wrecks July Fourth: An ‘Ideological Tool’ of Right-Wing Extremists

July 8th, 2023 4:39 PM

The tax-funded PBS NewsHour marked the Independence Day holiday in its own inimitable style by trying to tie the patriotic celebration to right-wing extremism and the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins sat down with two liberal professors to decry the dangers of the right wing on Tuesday evening. Host Amna Nawaz set the scene for PBS’s attempt to…

PBS Hosts LGBTQ Journo-Activist to Label SCOTUS Victor a ‘Hate Group'

July 4th, 2023 10:29 PM

The Supreme Court ended its term with several major decisions favorable to conservatives, and tax-funded public broadcasting, which is ostensibly objective, failed to hide its displeasure in its Friday evening analysis, including its take on the Court’s 6-3 decision in the 303 CREATIVE LLC case, that a website designer in Colorado had a First Amendment right to refuse to design…

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PBS, VICE Smear Parents Group Moms for Liberty as Violent Harassers

July 3rd, 2023 7:17 PM

Friday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS News Hour took a jab at the influential new conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty, which drew some Republican presidential candidates to its convention last week. Moms was founded to oppose school closings and mask-vaccine mandates in schools and which now targets the teaching of Critical Race Theory and gender identity in schools.…

PBS Cries Over ‘Right-Wing Backlash' As Big Biz 'Rethinks' Pride Month

July 2nd, 2023 12:16 PM

Monday’s edition of the tax-supported PBS NewsHour featured more of the unstinting, un-journalistic cheerleading of a segment of left-wing activists without a pretense of fairness. This time PBS’s flagship news program is lamenting the “right-wing backlash” forcing companies to “rethink Pride.” June is “Pride Month,” a fact you’ve been reminded of every time you turn on your…

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Brooks And Capehart Agree: SCOTUS Upholding Free Speech Is 'Poison'

July 1st, 2023 9:49 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed on Friday’s PBS NewsHour that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the First Amendment protects a Christian web designer from having to create a website for same-sex weddings is “poison” for society.

PBS 'Conservative' Brooks Blasts DeSantis on 'Offensive' Woke Critique

June 26th, 2023 9:01 AM

Next time you catch the PBS News Hour on Friday evening (it’s partially funded by your taxes, after all), close your eyes and try to tell the difference between liberal Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and “conservative” counterpart David Brooks of the New York Times during the show’s weekly political roundtable. Capehart is one of many liberal voices on PBS…

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PBS: NPR Legal Scribe Claims Hunter Plea 'Somewhat Harsher' Than Usual

June 24th, 2023 8:58 PM

Hunter Biden, the controversial son of the president, pled guilty to two federal charges of tax fraud and a felony charge of gun possession on Tuesday, and that evening’s taxpayer-funded PBS News Hour proved itself eager to move along, dismissing Republican accusations of a cushy plea deal from his father’s Department of Justice, appealing to emotion by painting President Joe Biden as…

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PBS Lectures GOPer: ‘These Aren't Perspectives, Sir. These Are Facts.'

June 20th, 2023 4:42 PM

Yet another testy exchange transpired on the PBS NewsHour between reporters and Republicans. Host Amna Nawaz and new Republican presidential candidate, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, got into it on Friday evening. Nawaz was greatly troubled that Suarez offered a hypothetical response to a Trump conviction, if Suarez somehow became President of the United States.

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PBS Cries 'Projection' As GOP Promises To Combat DOJ Weaponization

June 17th, 2023 10:36 AM

The whole point of elections is to offer multiple competing visions for the future, but this was confusing to the cast of Friday’s PBS NewsHour with host Amna Nawaz how 2024 Republicans can “undermine” federal agencies, such as the Justice Department, while seeking to run them. Washington Post associate editor also proclaimed that such campaigning represents “projection.”

Predictable PBS: ‘Hillary Clinton's Case Is Completely Different'

June 14th, 2023 9:30 PM

Tuesday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS NewsHour aired a segment on Trump’s latest indictment, over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate, that was devoted to neutralizing Republican accusations of a double standard between the political parties over document-related prosecutions, using an unlabeled Democratic lawyer and operative as cover.