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PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'

December 14th, 2024 9:45 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v

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Capehart To PBS: Hunter Pardon Was Justified Because Harris Lost

December 7th, 2024 9:54 AM

Of all the bad takes on President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter, MSNBC host and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had the worst on Friday’s PBS News Hour. In Capehart’s mind, Biden was justified because Kamala Harris lost and Democrats need “to stop bringing a melon baller to a knife fight.”

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Capehart Gives Thanks for Kamala, Who 'Exemplified Black Excellence'

November 30th, 2024 6:36 AM

On the PBS NewsHour on Friday, Washington Post and MSNBC opinionator Jonathan Capehart was liberal with his gratitude when asked what he was thankful for. Liberal, as in wow, he loves Kamala Harris, who he said “exemplified black excellence” as vice president and presidential candidate.

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Brooks Fears Trump Will 'Blowtorch' 'Neutral Institutions of Justice'

November 23rd, 2024 9:46 AM

New York Times columnist and supposed conservative half of PBS News Hour’s Friday Brooks and Capehart segment was dismayed that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will supposedly help him take a “blowtorch to the neutral institutions of justice.”

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Capehart Attributes Trump Win To 'Racism and Sexism'

November 9th, 2024 9:51 AM

The passage of a few days to allow for more mature reflection after Election Day has not affected Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Capehart attributed Donald Trump’s victory to “racism and sexism” and a list of other horribles that the country refuses to acknowledge.

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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.”

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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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'She Is The Culture': PBS Takes Gushing Over Harris To The Next Level

September 21st, 2024 10:03 AM

For all of the media odes to Kamala Harris and her “joy,” the Friday edition of PBS News Hour may have been the most effusive. New York Times columnist David Brooks declared “it’s just who she is,” host Geoff Bennett mused about “attacks on her joyful warrior approach,” and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed “she is the culture.”

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Hating GOP, Hailing Democrats: PBS’s Very Biased Convention Coverage

September 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

The Republican and Democratic conventions are over, and it’s clear which party was the favorite of taxpayer-supported PBS. Not even the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump quelled the overwhelming negativity with which the PBS panel greeted the Republican Party Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee in July. Yet a month later, Vice-President Kamala Harris and a familiar crew of…

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'One Of The Lowest Moments': PBS Attacks Trump's Arlington Visit

August 31st, 2024 10:00 AM

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr and New York Times counterpart David Brooks agreed on Friday’s PBS News Hour that Donald Trump’s recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery was “really one of the lowest political moments” they could recall.

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PBS Hails DNC's 'Patriotism' Versus RNC's 'Weighted Blanket'

August 24th, 2024 9:35 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks recapped the Democratic National Convention on Friday’s PBS News Hour by contrasting its “jubilation” and “patriotism” with the “hate” that came out of the RNC’s “weighted blanket.”

PBS’s Capehart on Horror of USA Chants at GOP Rallies: ‘Felt Menacing'

August 23rd, 2024 7:52 AM

Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez set the scene for Night Three of the Democratic National Convention on the preceding episode of the PBS News Hour Wednesday evening, looking back with joy at Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches from Night Two.

News Hour co-anchor Amna Nawaz opened PBS’s Night Three convention coverage by also finding “a message of hope” in Barack Obama’s…

PBS Claim of GOP ‘Demonizing’ Dem Women Popped by Brooks in Two Words

August 21st, 2024 10:12 AM

Although he appears as the ostensible voice from the right on the PBS News Hour’s Friday evening political discussion, New York Times columnist David Brooks is no one’s idea of a hard-core conservative. He said “I love Joe Biden” before criticizing Biden’s angry speech on Night One of the Democratic National Convention, after previously stating “I do think Donald Trump is…

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Brooks Surprised 'Responsible' Harris Backs Soviet-Like Price Controls

August 17th, 2024 9:47 AM

New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour theoretical conservative David Brooks was shocked on Friday’s show that “a responsible Democratic candidate” would endorse Soviet-like price controls on food.