PBS Reporter Disses Trump's Iran Death Count, Trusted Hamas Gaza Stats
After Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s rebuttal speech to President Trump’s State of the Union address, PBS News Hour’s foreign policy reporter Nick Schifrin nitpicked President Trump’s claim about the carnage in Iran. There’s an ideological point to casting doubt on the estimated number of peaceful protesters killed by the Iranian regime, given that Trump may be building up U.S.…
'Independent Fact Checkers' PILE ON Trump, Spanberger Gets a Free Pass
The State of the Union is typically an eye-opening exhibit of how dramatically slanted our "independent fact-checkers" are. An overview of the most prominent traditional national media sites reveals a total of 123 "fact checks" on the president to four for Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.). One might say that Trump spoke much longer, but all four of Spanberger's evaluated claims were ruled as…
PBS Allows Panelist Tiffany Smiley to Support Trump, Rip Spanberger
Live PBS coverage of Trump's State of the Union speech offered a surprising balance to the usual liberal tilt. They allowed Tiffany Smiley to sit on the set and be strongly pro-Trump in her analysis, especially at the end, when she ripped Gov. Abigail Spanberger as a fake moderate and a "Trojan horse for the far-left policies" of the Democrats.
PBS Lies About George H.W. Bush's 1992 Supermarket Scanner Encounter
On Monday’s PBS News Hour, co-anchor Geoff Bennett used a discussion of President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address to dredge up a hoary piece of liberal media mythology that helped doom the re-election chances of Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992. It originated with liberal hack Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times, who got an entire front-page story…
PBS Promotes Jon Meacham: Trump Is Dangerous, Jesse Jackson Was 'Hope'
PBS’s Firing Line with Margaret Hoover hosted the elitist media’s favorite historian Jon Meacham, who predictably found parallels between President Donald Trump and House Rep. Joe McCarthy of so-called “Red Scare” infamy, while hailing the late Jesse Jackson. The slant started in host Margaret Hoover’s introduction, a clip montage featuring “triumphs” of democracy consisting of…
PBS Sounds OK With Democrats Heckling Trump as a LIAR at SOTU Address
On Friday’s weekly PBS journalists roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, panel regular Susan Glasser of the New Yorker foisted insults on President Trump for being obliged to appear at the State of the Union after losing on tariffs at the Supreme Court, “I really think that this is a really embarrassing political moment for Donald Trump to be going up to Capitol Hill…
Meacham Brings Back Idea That Trump Is 'Failing' Omaha Beach Soldiers'
On Wednesday, the media’s favorite presidential historian, Jon Meacham, joined Walter Isaacson on PBS’s Amanpour and Company to resurrect his allegation that the Trump administration is “failing” the soldiers who served at places like Omaha Beach and Gettysburg as well as the men and women of the nation’s various civil rights movements.
Irony Alert: Brooks Mourns 'Constant Battle Of Forcing Dehumanization'
The Atlantic podcaster and end-of-democracy doomsday prophet David Brooks had the temerity to claim on Friday’s PBS News Hour that he and people like him represent the “forces of humanization” in America while people like President Trump fight a “constant battle of forcing dehumanization.”
Trump Praised At White House Black History Month Event, Networks SKIP
February is Black History Month, so it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for one to expect to see media coverage of President Trump's White House event on Wednesday. But the Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS all skipped it. Fox's Special Report With Bret Baier did mention it and Laura Ingraham made it the focus of her opening 'Angle' on The Ingraham Angle…
PBS Skips Rubio's Munich Triumph to Bash 'Trump, Demolition Man'
Monday’s PBS News Hour virtually skipped over Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s performance at the annual Munich Security Conference to wail over his subsequent trip to endorse “far right prime minister” Viktor Orban of Hungary. The online heading to the segment after Rubio’s speech impressed even European leaders: “Rubio bolsters Hungary's far-right leader days after push to mend U.S…
PBS Likens Minnesota To Civil Rights Movement, Underground Railroad
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart and former New York Times columnist-turned-podcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic David Brooks returned to PBS News Hour on Friday to declare victory for the anti-ICE crowds in Minnesota by comparing them to the Civil Rights Movement and the Underground Railroad.
PBS Scorns New Job Numbers: People ‘Might Feel’ They’re in a Recession
While ABC World News Tonight admitted that “a strong new jobs report tonight, the U.S. adding 130,000 new jobs in February, more than double the number expected,” and NBC Nightly News announcing "We have good news on the economy" (CBS Evening News made no mention, while CNN didn’t know what to think), PBS was the Debbie Downer of the lot Wednesday evening, under the…
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PBS Doc On Venezuelan Crisis Omits Any Reference To Socialism
PBS’s Tuesday Frontline documentary on Venezuela sought to highlight the series of events that led to the January capture of Nicolas Maduro. Naturally, that meant focusing in on Maduro’s corrupt and authoritarian rule, but there was one word noticeably absent from the history lesson: socialism.
