On PBS, NYT's Cooper Issues Smear: Black Marine Fears Racist Hegseth!
The focus of Friday’s Washington Week in Review journalist roundtable (which aired on the eve of Memorial Day weekend) was the Department of Defense, especially on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s war against wokeism, which the panel disapproved of, especially New York Times national security correspondent Helene Cooper, who all but accused Hegseth and the Trump Administration…
Sneering 'Washington Week' Mocks Kash Patel With Bourbon Bash
President Trump wasn’t the only administration figure who came in for extraneous mockery on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic. Trump’s FBI director Kash Patel turn in the (bourbon] barrel came complete with a prop, making for a jarring image for the generally more conventional-looking broadcast. Atlantic editor-in-chief and show moderator Jeffrey Goldberg kept the hits…
Hypocritical PBS Full of Personal Trump Mockery, 25th Amendment Insult
PBS’s Friday evening political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic got nasty and personal about President Donald Trump, going beyond criticism of his handling of the Iran War to mock him personally and suggest he’s demented. After The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire damned the war in Iran (“Gas prices are up. His poll numbers are down. Very few of the U.S. military goals…
PBS Sees Loathing of GOP in AZ: Voters 'Livid,' House Dems May Be +3
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of The Atlantic was the star of the latest episode of the journalist roundtable Washington Week. After moderator (and Sanchez boss) Jeffrey Goldberg introduced the program with the dubious claim that “Iran is in the driver’s seat in the Gulf,” among other debatable anti-Trump declarations, he pivoted to Sanchez, a Phoenix-based reporter making her …
PBS Offers Overdue Peek Into the Democrats’ Own Epstein-File Struggles
PBS's Washington Week with The Atlantic remains a reliably Democrat-boosting/Republican-bashing political roundtable, but this Friday the show featured a tiny, overdue peek into an under-covered angle of the sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga, which thus far the media has used as a cudgel against President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. It turns out Democrats have their…
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…
Unanimous Partisan PBS Pundit Panel Horrified About Don Lemon's Arrest
The unanimously Trump-bashing PBS pundit show Washington Week with The Atlantic came rushing to the defense of Don Lemon on their Friday night pitch-and-catch. Host Jeffrey Goldberg claimed "Don Lemon was arrested for covering a protest inside a church in Minneapolis.”
PBS Show: Only 'Tinpot Dictators' Would Add Name to the Kennedy Center
PBS used to call its Friday night journalists roundtable Washington Week In Review. It's now Washington Week with The Atlantic, but it could be called Trashing Trump's Week In Review. Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center caused an all-night freakout. On the PBS News Hour, David Brooks compared Trump to Stalin and Mao. On this show, it was just "tinpot…
PBS 'Washington Week' Rips Trump's 'Unmanaged Anger' at Orders Video
Washington Week with The Atlantic host Jeffrey Goldberg opened Friday’s political roundtable on PBS by setting up a segment on the reckless video issued by Democrats pressuring current military members “to refuse illegal orders” – while leaving the illegal orders supposedly issued by Trump undefined. Goldberg led off by ripping Trump's "unmanaged anger" over the "eminently ignorable"…
PBS Panel Hits Trump 'Misogyny,' Defends ABC's Compromised Mary Bruce
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was more feistily anti-Trumpism than usual, with moderator Jeffrey Goldberg leading the panel into various anti-Trump segments, including the president’s fraught relationship with the mainstream press. Goldberg used Trump’s spat with two female reporters in the White House press pool to label Trump, an equal-opportunity insulter, as a…
Atlantic Mag's PBS Roundtable: Shutdown Shows 'Cruelty Is the Point'
The Atlantic’s take-over of PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable has formed a closed circle of liberal grievance. After Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg cracked jokes about Rep. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) comment about Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought wanting to shut down the government “since puberty,” Goldberg turned to his Atlantic …
On PBS, Steve Hayes Taps Brakes on Lefty Hysteria On Comey Indictment
The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of…
PBS: After Kirk's Murder, Trump Using Govt. to 'Crack Down on Dissent'
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic discussing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination: "President Trump puts television networks on notice and stokes fears that he`s using the government to…
Atlantic Show On PBS TRASHES Kirk As Racist Symbol of 'Toxic Culture'
No one should think PBS is an oasis of civility. On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, the liberal gang typically rained fire on conservatives in general and the late Charlie Kirk in particular. No one had a critical word for rhetorical extremism on the left, and there was really no focus on the killer.
