PBS Uses Thomas to Push Reporter’s Book Warning of Scary Righty SCOTUS

April 11th, 2023 9:16 AM

CNN Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic gives off a Nina Totenberg vibe, a longtime legal reporter who's all about diminishing the conservatives. So it's only natural that she was invited on the CNN/PBS-aired talk show Amanpour & Co. The news hook was a ProPublica probe into Clarence Thomas and his ritzy travel with a GOP "megadonor."

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PBS Downplays Weak Trump Charges, Pushes Neo-Nazi, White Power Threats

April 8th, 2023 6:50 AM

Former President Trump was arrested on 34 felony counts of bookkeeping fraud involving hush money and appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, as everyone in the world knows. PBS made the most out of the case, devoting a half hour of its evening “news hour” to multiple angles on the indictment. The dubious charges by New York district attorney Alvin Bragg involve years-old allegations…

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PBS’s Woodruff Uses MSNBC's Charlie Sykes as Wisconsin Voter Expert

April 6th, 2023 6:32 AM

Former PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff is now reporting from the field, and previewed the state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. Her primary political analyst was Charlie Sykes of the "center-right" site The Bulwark, who is an almost daily liberal presence on MSNBC.

PBS, NPR Smear ‘Apocalyptic’ Criticism of Trump-Targeting DA Bragg

April 5th, 2023 3:15 PM

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, who's been on an anti-Fox kick of late, went off on “right-wing media’s” “apocalyptic” coverage criticizing the legal case against Donald Trump and their attacks on Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Earlier, Trump and conservatives were baselessly accused on Friday’s PBS NewsHour of both racism (Bragg is black) and anti-Semitism (for…

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PBS: Bragg, Soros Criticisms 'Anti-Semitic' With 'Racist Undertones'

April 1st, 2023 11:22 AM

PBS NewsHour twice accused GOP critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and left-wing political donor George Soros of anti-Semitism on Friday’s show. Those doing the accusing were not cantankerous liberal guests, but host Amna Nawaz and White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez.

PBS on 'Violent Extremism': Right-Wingers Caused Antifa Violence??

April 1st, 2023 6:58 AM

The PBS NewsHour attacked Donald Trump’s weekend speech in Waco, Texas, with host Amna Nawaz repeating the word “extremist” in her introduction before tossing to White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez. Barron-Lopez and her two liberal guests went far beyond Trump’s Waco rant to condemn substantive conservative policy and philosophy as racist and violent: "Adrienne in your piece…

Media Outlets Fault Cops for Misgendering Nashville Trans Mass Killer

March 30th, 2023 7:54 AM

After the horrific shooting murder of three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville on Monday, public broadcasting and the New York Times joined the rest of the press in emphasizing the real crime: Misgendering the shooter, “trans man” Audrey Hale, who was stopped and killed by the brave officers who arrived at the scene -- a woman who identified as a man. On…

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ABC & CBS Hype Sanders Berating CEO After Ignoring Mayorkas Grilling

March 29th, 2023 8:48 PM

Just 24 hours after ignoring Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s well-deserved grilling by Senators for his disastrous performance in office, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News showed how they are nothing more than servile stenographers for the Democrat Party on Wednesday when they breathlessly covered socialist Senator Bernie Sanders…

Be My Leftist Guest: PBS’s False Objectivity Poisons Political Debate

March 27th, 2023 11:02 AM

PBS, established in 1969, has an outdated reputation for delivering a polite, objective take on the news of the day, exemplified by its flagship evening news program, now called the PBS NewsHour. But a new Media Research Center study deflates that outdated assumption, tracking and labeling every guest that appeared on the NewsHour over a four-month period, November 2022…

PBS’s Amanpour: Pro-Life Autocrats and the ‘Anti-Trans Hate Machine'

March 26th, 2023 10:19 PM

Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which appears on PBS, went wild in defense of radical transgenderism, comparing American anti-trans bills to truly insidious legislation in dictatorships. Host Christiane Amanpour set the table with an ignorant international comparison of supposed female/LGBTQ repression, before letting the show guest talk about the "anti-trans hate machine"…

PBS Makes Hero Film for Fauci as He Trashes Republicans, Protesters

March 25th, 2023 9:58 PM

The latest PBS American Masters documentary profiled the face of COVID in America, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades and came into attention during the AIDS crisis, and especially during COVID. The tone is of a tireless St. Fauci bringing hard truths down the mountain to ungrateful conservatives. Yet left-wing…

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Capehart Declares Parental Rights Is about 'Targeting' 'Trans Kids'

March 25th, 2023 10:32 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart obsessively used the words “target” and “targeting” when describing GOP efforts to advance parental rights in education on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, claiming the whole thing is just a cover for going after “trans kids.”

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PBS Hypes UN Report: Take 'Drastic Steps' on Climate or 'Catastrophe'

March 24th, 2023 4:34 PM

On Monday's PBS NewsHour, the show hyped the latest U.N, report on global warming that makes dire predictions about the climate's future while pushing for dramatic new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.

Reagan-Hating PBS Reheats Old ‘October Surprise’ Election Conspiracy

March 24th, 2023 11:20 AM

PBS celebrated the return of the ancient “October Surprise” election conspiracy theory -- the unsubstantiated rumor that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, led by William Casey, delayed the release of the 52 American hostages in Iran in order to win election over Democrat Jimmy Carter. The original version was advanced by former Carter aide Gary Sick before being discredited…