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The PBS NewsHour Boys: Dubya Is Lincoln, Today's GOP 'Horrendous' on Refugees, Islam

By Tim Graham | November 21, 2015, 4:52 PM EST

The Public Broadcasting Service isn’t really a representative of the Public, as everyone should know. It’s the defender of liberal elite opinion, no matter what the polls say. This week, the polls are stacking up against President Obama on his ISIS policy ...

David Brooks: Jeb Should Become the ‘Laxative’ Candidate

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 1, 2015, 11:59 AM EST

During a panel discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press about the state of Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, liberal New York Times columnist David Brooks used a crude analogy to explain how Bush should turn around his struggling candidacy.  The liberal Republi ...

Your Tax $ at Work: NPR and David Brooks Help Hillary Take Benghazi 'Victory Lap'

By Tim Graham | October 25, 2015, 8:16 AM EDT

A "week in politics" like Hillary's latest Benghazi hearing really proves the usefulness of "conservative" public-broadcasting pundit David Brooks. What better way to prove Hillary completely trounced her opponents on the public s ...

On PBS, NYT's Brooks Sees 'Psychosis' in GOPers 'Obsessed' With 'Nothingburger' Benghazi

By Brad Wilmouth | October 25, 2015, 12:07 PM EDT

Appearing in the regular "Shields and Brooks" segment of the PBS NewsHour on Friday, New York Times columnist David Brooks asserted that the Benghazi hearing this week yielded a "big nothingburger," and theorized that there is a " ...

PBS Panel of Brooks and Shields Hits Tea Party Holding Congress 'Hostage'

By Brad Wilmouth | October 19, 2015, 12:33 AM EDT

On Friday's PBS Newshour, host Judy Woodruff joined liberal columnist Mark Shields in declaring that the House GOP's conservative wing is holding the Congress "hostage," with allegedly right-leaning regular and New York Times columnist ...

Dionne, Brooks Tout Obama’s Decision to ‘Politicize’ Oregon Shooting

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 5, 2015, 12:21 PM EDT

During appearances on NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS NewsHour on Friday, the Washington Post ’s E.J. Dionne and the New York Times ’ David Brooks eagerly touted President Obama’s blatant decision to “politicize” the Oregon school shooting to push gun ...

PBS's Woodruff Seems Unfazed by Incendiary Clinton Comparison of GOP to Terrorists

By Brad Wilmouth | August 30, 2015, 1:52 PM EDT

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, during a discussion of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's sagging poll numbers, host Judy Woodruff seemed unfazed by Clinton's incendiary claim that Republicans have similar views toward women as t ...

Mark Shields: Scott Walker Has a ‘Lingering’ Resemblance to Sarah Palin

By Jeffrey Meyer | July 20, 2015, 8:16 AM EDT

During an appearance on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, l iberal columnist Mark Shields questioned Scott Walker’s readiness to be president as he argued “there’s a lingering sort of “I can see Alaska from my front porch” of Governor Palin with him.”  Shields playe ...

On PBS, David Brooks Says Amnesty Will Win in GOP, Talk Radio is 'Waning' in Power

By Tim Graham | July 13, 2015, 3:47 PM EDT

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, pseudo-conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks offered disbelief that Donald Trump’s anti-amnesty position on immigration would win the day with Republicans. They’re not “complete idiots,” he suggested. Brooks insisted ...

Mark Shields: Voter Fraud is a Great GOP Fraud

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 8, 2015, 2:17 AM EDT

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal political commentator Mark Shields proclaimed “one of the great frauds that Republicans have perpetrated over the past generation has been this idea of voter fraud.”  After Shields detailed how since our founding our coun ...

Bozell & Graham Column: The Media's Worst Liberal Brain Cramps

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | June 2, 2015, 10:20 PM EDT

Journalists are supposed to be the most informed members of society. Nothing is supposed to get past the iron traps in their brains. So which one of these concepts sounds more like a brain cramp? 1. Why would Hilla ry Clinton avoid taki ng questions from ...

David Brooks: 'Obama Has Run An Amazingly Scandal-Free Administration'

By Tom Blumer | June 1, 2015, 10:06 AM EDT

One doesn't know what to do with the rubbish which follows beyond noting it and hoping that the ridicule which results will somehow and in some way have some kind of impact. Despite 6-1/2 years of horrid governance and dozens of acknowledged scandals ...

Cozy: New York Times Love-Bombs Its Own Columnist David Brooks in Book Review Pages

By Tim Graham | April 28, 2015, 8:26 AM EDT

While The New York Times routinely ignores best-selling books by conservative authors like Mark Levin, the fake conservative the Times selected for their own editorial page received a rave review for his latest book in Sunday’s Book Review. To review his ...

On NPR and PBS, David Brooks Bashes Ted Cruz: Too Smart, Too Smoothly Insincere

By Tim Graham | March 30, 2015, 3:51 PM EDT

Tim Russert used to say “If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press.” Of David Brooks, we might joke, “If it’s Friday, Brooks is bashing Ted Cruz.” On both NPR and PBS Friday, the purported conservative-leaning balance to public broadcasting’s natural socialist ...

David Brooks: CPAC is the ‘Hardest of the Hardcore’ Conservatives

By Jeffrey Meyer | March 1, 2015, 4:24 PM EST

On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, New York Times columnists David Brooks and Mark Shields used their weekly appearance to trash the attendees of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as representing the extreme far right of the Republican Par ...