Jonathan Capehart

Column: Jonathan Capehart's Frantic Jim Crow Delusions
MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It's titled Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home. It sounds like the first lesson is this: a “Black Man” gets to dictate history and no one is allowed to offer a “reality check” or else they’re “robbing his humanity.”

Capehart Fails To Mention He Wanted Biden In Race Even After Debate
On MSNBC's The Weekend, Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson says that the Democrat party was "sleepwalking" about Biden's decline until the disastrous debate made that impossible to ignore. Co-host Jonathan Capehart failed to disclose that more than two weeks after the debate, he was still calling for Biden to stay in the race. On PBS, Capehart called Democrats calling on Biden to…

PBS Attacks GOP For Deficits While Attacking Spending Cuts
The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to have it both ways on Friday. The three men attacked the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill for its negative effects on the deficit, but also its spending cuts, meaning PBS either wants to raise most people's taxes, but is too…

FLASHBACK: Biden’s Media Lapdogs HATED the ‘Gratuitous’ Hur Report
In February 2024, when Special Counsel Robert Hur published his report about then-President Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, the White House’s media lapdogs were utterly incensed by Hur’s characterization of Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” Borrowing language directly from Democrats’ own talking points, corporate journalists maligned Hur for his “gratuitous”…

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MSNBC's Capehart Dismisses Comey's '8647'—A 'Pseudo Controversy'
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart dismisses former FBI Director James Comey posting a photo of 8647, which can be interpreted as a call to assassinate President Trump, as a "pseudo controversy."

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PBS: Pope 'In Line With The Gospel,' But Not 'Right-Wing Politics'
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour joyfully welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV on Friday as they tried to claim him as one of their own as all hailed him as the anti-Trump figure the country needs, but all also avoided any parts of Leo that might make them uncomfortable.

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PBS Decries 'Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution' As Trump Defunds
Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.

Brooks Hails Arrested Judge's 'Heroic' 'Civil Disobedience'
A week after calling for a “civic uprising,” New York Times columnist and PBS nominal conservative David Brooks found his first heroine in arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who is alleged to have used her courtroom to help an illegal immigrant, who was in front of her for domestic abuse, escape arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Friday’s PBS News Hour,…

PBS's Marx-Quoting 'Conservative' Urges Strikes To Protest Trump
If there were still any questions that PBS is a liberal network in need of defunding, Friday’s News Hour removed any remaining doubts. In a wild segment, host William Brangham preferred the words of the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters over an anti-Trump law professor who stated the country is not in a constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, New York Times columnist and…

Brooks on Trump, Democracy: 'We No Longer Live In That System'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled for their weekly airing of grievances on Friday night’s PBS News Hour as they discussed the news that the Trump Administration has reached deals with five top law firms to provide $600 million in pro bono work. Capehart ignored vital details of the deals to claim Trump was…