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PBS Claims Redistricting 'Race To The Bottom' Is GOP's Fault

October 25th, 2025 9:49 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe counterpart Kimberly Atkins Stohr joined forces on Friday’s PBS News Hour to lament the nation’s redistricting “race to the bottom,” which they blamed solely on Republicans.

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PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won't Buckle On Shutdown

October 18th, 2025 9:39 AM

As the government shutdown continues, the despondent cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour assembled to complain that President Trump and Republicans are not willing to buckle to Democratic demands and nobody outside of the D.C. area seems to care.

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STUDY: ABC, CBS, PBS NewsHour Spike National Debt During Shutdown Mess

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October 14th, 2025 10:55 PM

With all the media banter surrounding the ongoing government shutdown, ABC, CBS and PBS NewsHour seem to have conveniently forgotten that the national debt was even a major issue in this whole mess. Perhaps by emphasizing the multitrillion-dollar debt at all, the networks would be putting the Democrats in the hot seat for continuing to drag their feet on the negotiations.

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PBS Hails Gaza Deal, But Freaks Out Over James Indictment

October 11th, 2025 10:00 AM

The Friday evening cast of PBS News Hour featuring moderator Geoff Bennett, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks briefly broke character to heap praise on President Trump for his role in securing a ceasefire agreement that will see Israeli hostages return home. However, the trio quickly reverted back to form and freaked out that New York…

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Capehart Gets Triggered When Told Shutdown Is Bad For Democracy

October 4th, 2025 9:36 AM

A Friday episode of PBS News Hour where New York Times columnist David Brooks manages to actually say something that fully triggers MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart is a rare occurrence, but this Friday Capehart could not tolerate the idea that Democrats are the ones corroding democracy with their government shutdown.

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Comey Gets Indicted, PBS Wails About The 'Erosion Of Our Democracy'

September 27th, 2025 9:33 AM

The trio of host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart gathered together on Friday’s PBS News Hour to announce, yet again, that democracy is dying. This time, the culprit is the Department of Justice and its decision to indict former FBI Director James Comey.

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'We're In It': Capehart Announces Authoritarianism Has Arrived

September 20th, 2025 9:44 AM

PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday segment with New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart focused exclusively on ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the idea that censorship and authoritarianism are big problems. Brooks took a sort of centrist position where he condemned Kimmel and the late night industry as a whole but denounced the suspension, while…

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PBS Doubts Trump Can Be a Good Leader After Charlie Kirk's Murder

September 13th, 2025 9:48 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.

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PBS Guest Blames GOP, American Gun Culture For School Shootings

August 30th, 2025 9:41 AM

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture for mass shootings in America. New York Times columnist David Brooks wasn’t much better. While he refrained from that…

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Brooks Claims Trump Ordered 'Mustard Gas' Attack 'On Our Democracy'

August 16th, 2025 9:35 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks may have officially lost it. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Brooks reached back over 100 years into the time machine to pull out an analogy that says what President Trump and Texas are doing on redistricting is the equivalent of the German use of mustard gas in World War I.

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PBS Attacks 'Corrosion of Democracy' As Texas Redistricts

August 9th, 2025 9:34 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.

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'Why Have People Not Risen Up?': Brooks Praises Harris on Colbert Show

August 2nd, 2025 9:48 AM

New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington…

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PBS Warns Of 'Institutional Capture' As Columbia Settles With Trump

July 26th, 2025 9:43 AM

Even by its own standards, the weekly Friday news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks was especially tone-deaf and unintelligent. The trio would have you believe that Columbia University settling with the Trump administration is both a threat to universities…

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Brooks Claims PBS Is For Giving Local News To Maine

July 19th, 2025 9:27 AM

New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday news recap, David Brooks, unleashed an unintentionally hilarious counterargument to Congress’s decision earlier in the week to rescind federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to Brooks, not only is PBS not on the left, but it also provides local news to…