PBS Is DNC: Amna Nawaz, Tamara Keith TRASH Trump-Vance on Haitian Migrants in Ohio

Tim Graham
September 17th, 2024 11:55 AM

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The badly disguised Democrats at PBS are having a hard time with this second assassination attempt on Donald Trump. They barely passed over it on Sunday night, and on Monday night, News Hour anchor Amna Nawaz and NPR reporter Tamara Keith savaged Trump-Vance again for demonizing Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. 

Curtis Houck pointed out on Sunday night that it was a 30-second news brief, followed by more Springfield bashing of Trump-Vance. I'm guessing the PBS News Weekend shows are pre-produced during the week and are not to be disturbed. So you get 30 seconds in the "News Wrap" on an assassination attempt, and eight minutes on celebrity endorsements of presidential candidates.

Trump's veep pick J.D. Vance picked up on that stat in a long tweet:

PBS's weekend show perfectly illustrates the double standard of Kamala Harris's media friends. After spending 30 seconds on the second assassination attempt on President Trump, they then focused on the real danger: me and President Trump, who are, according to them, personally responsible for bomb threats against Springfield. Of course, I repeatedly condemend those threats. And reports today suggest they came from a foreign country, not--as the media suggested--a deranged Trump fan. The double standard is breathtaking.

On Sunday afternoon, NPR's top-of-the-hour newscast also briefly touched on the Trump shooter and lavished attention on terrified Haitians in Springfield. Your tax dollars at work: 

On Monday night's News Hour, anchor Amna Nawaz spent a short time expressing surprise that no one's really slowing down or toning down after this assassination attempt, and then turned again to whipping on Vance, using his feisty interview on CNN with Dana Bash: "Meanwhile, speaking of political rhetoric, we should point out that the vice presidential candidate on the Republican side, J.D. Vance, continues to repeat baseless claims about the Haitian immigrant population in Ohio."

Bash fact-checked Vance like she was Linsey Davis on the claims of pet-eating, just like all Democrats want them to do, incessantly. Then Nawaz turned to NPR reporter Tamara Keith for the double-down: 

NAWAZ: Haitians in Ohio, we should note, are here legally. They're under protected legal status. And we know now that this kind of rhetoric has led to the potential for real-world violence, threats against people in the community there, and evacuations. Why are they continuing to repeat these lies?

TAMARA KEITH: Yes, and Vance was absolutely unapologetic in that interview, and, in fact, was critical of Dana for even suggesting that these threats that have been called into schools and other civic places in the community of Springfield, that that would have anything to do with the rhetoric of Vance and former President Trump, who have both continued to amplify this, not back down, certainly not apologize.

But that is the way of the Trump campaign, of the Trump political ethos, is to dig in and dig in and dig in. And what they might be doing here — there's a few things that they're doing. One, they are trying to get people to talk about immigration in a way that has people focused on dogs and cats and Haitian migrants and people who are here legally.

So it's sort of an unusual way to get people to talk about immigration. But the other thing is, it was a week where former President Trump had a really bad debate, where he went on stage and he said he had concepts for plans, but not actual plans, where a lot of things went wrong for Trump.

And he has been struggling for weeks to get any political oxygen at all directed to him in any way that is on his terms. And so this was a way they could get political oxygen on their terms.

Despite this reliable DNC messaging, PBS and NPR are supported in part by the involuntary tax money of Trump voters and other conservatives. 

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