MSG Poisoning? PBS Guest Flips Out, Predicts Trump Concentration Camps

October 30th, 2024 1:01 PM

Monday evening’s PBS News Hour devoted its first 11 minutes of news -- two full segments -- to bashing Donald Trump’s long rally at Madison Square Garden in the heart of his hometown of New York City. White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez actually led with criticism from his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, not news about the rally itself.

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PBS Snob: People Who Call Kamala a Fascist Don't Understand the Word

October 28th, 2024 1:30 PM

In the latest turn in the circle of symbiosis, Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS, invited PBS’s Washington Week host and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss his anonymously sourced hit piece, which dropped two weeks before the presidential election, alleging Donald Trump envied…

On PBS, Barron-Lopez Gets the Vote Out for Democrats in North Carolina

October 27th, 2024 6:55 PM

PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron-Lopez helped get out the vote for Democrats in North Carolina in a report about the gender divide from the campaign trail Friday evening. Barron-Lopez, the News Hour’s most partisan reporter, began with the young chairman of the state’s Democratic Party. The closer: "If Clayton is right, it would be only the second time since the 1970s that…

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PBS Flouts Goldwater Rule: Invites Shrink to Diagnose Trump Dementia

October 27th, 2024 6:37 AM

Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis on Thursday’s PBS News Hour for a segment that felt very much like a violation of the psychiatric profession's so-called Goldwater Rule: If he is reelected, former President Donald Trump, now 78 years old, would be the oldest president ever elected. After a number of appearances where his remarks were rambling or incoherent…

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Goldberg: Harris Calling Trump a Fascist Is Only 'Allegedly Extreme'

October 26th, 2024 2:00 PM

After days of declaring that Donald Trump admires Adolf Hitler and dismissing evidence that his scoop that Trump cursed in a racist manner at the cost of a military funeral was false, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, took his place in the anchor’s chair of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic and declared it is only “allegedly extreme” for Kamala Harris to…

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LA Times Columnist Blasts 'Extremely Frustrating' Non-Endorsement

October 26th, 2024 9:46 AM

Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson joined PBS News Hour on Friday to attack his paper’s “extremely frustrating” decision not to endorse Kamala Harris in the presidential election. New York Times counterpart and alleged conservative counterweight David Brooks agreed, saying the Times and Washington Post’s similar decision “hurt the integrity of the paper.”

PBS Runs Anonymous Atlantic Hit on Hitler-Loving, Mexican-Hating Trump

October 24th, 2024 10:45 PM

Liberal media symbiosis in action: Jeffrey Goldberg. editor-and-chief of The Atlantic and host of the PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic, appeared as a guest on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour program to discuss his own anonymously sourced Atlantic hit piece, “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.'"

PBS on Trump: 'Spent Time Sowing Fear Around Transgender Americans'

October 24th, 2024 1:18 PM

The PBS News Hour led off two nights in a row with campaign trail reports from Laura Barron-Lopez, their most partisan reporter. Anchor Geoff Bennett set the scene Monday evening, with Donald Trump in North Carolina on a post-hurricane Helene trip and Kamala Harris touring with former Republican congresswoman and famed anti-Trumper Liz Cheney. The story’s online headline did much of…

PBS Ties Vance to 'Far Right' Preacher, Kamala Not Tied to Sharpton

October 23rd, 2024 10:24 PM

When Republican vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance appeared at a Christian conservative town hall in Monroeville, Penn., hosted by controversial right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau on September 28, PBS ran a full story two days later on the threat of “Christian Nationalism” and by implication, of Vance himself. Never mind that Vance was not actually interviewed by Wallnau, who didn’t even…

PBS Pushes Blackmail: LGBTQ Teen Suicides Due to GOP 'Targeting' Trans

October 22nd, 2024 10:22 PM

PBS News Weekend aired yet another story Sunday on suicides by “LGBTQ-plus” teenagers allegedly due to callous Republicans passing laws “targeting transgender people.” Openly gay anchor John Yang and other members of the PBS News crew regularly push the emotional blackmail claim that gender dysphoric kids are at higher risk of suicide, which is exactly the scary message the gender…

On PBS, Susan Glasser Sees Trump as 'Soviet'-Style Threat to Democracy

October 20th, 2024 10:52 PM

On Friday’s edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, it was The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser who dished out the most inflammatory anti-Trump statements, trying to literally scare up Democratic votes as the Harris campaign lists less than three weeks before the presidential election: "Kamala Harris is no longer making fun of Donald Trump and saying he’s weird. She`s saying…

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PBS Urges Against Downplaying 'The Role That Sexism' Affects Harris

October 19th, 2024 9:47 AM

PBS News Hour sought to answer the question on Friday of why Kamala Harris is struggling with male voters. Both New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed that it is important not to “downplay the role that sexism” plays here.

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Balance, PBS-Style: A Dem Harris Supporter vs. a GOP Harris Supporter

October 18th, 2024 10:08 AM

Behold tax-funded PBS’s idea of balanced election coverage: A “Republican” campaign strategist who endorsed the Democrat was interviewed on Tuesday night’s show, and a die-hard Democratic partisan strategist on Wednesday night. Former John McCain campaign strategist Mike Murphy had already signed a letter endorsing Harris over Trump, yet somehow appeared as a “Republican.”  

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PolitiFact Founder Indulges His Bias on PBS: Republicans Love to Lie!

October 17th, 2024 9:39 PM

Bill Adair, Duke University journalism professor and founder of the “fact-checking” site PolitiFact, indulged his warped scales with a sympathetic host on tax-funded PBS, sending out a fair-and-balanced message: Republicans love to lie! Adair: "[Democrats] feel shame in ways that I'm afraid too many politicians on the right do not…."