Jonathan Capehart
PBS Doubts Trump Can Be a Good Leader After Charlie Kirk's Murder
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.
Media Blame MAGA for Shooting, Fearmonger About Trump Ending Democracy
The following are just some of the most obnoxious outbursts by leftist journalists and celebrities from the month of August.
MSNBC Guest: America a Bellicose Country Built On Capitalism, Murder
On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, frequent MSNBC guest Prof. Christina Greer says: "The history of the United States is literally predicated on white supremacy, anti-black racism, patriarchy, and capitalism . . . Let's be clear, our history is filled with murder. We are a bellicose nation. It's filled with rapes and exclusion."
Capehart Gushes Over Newsom's Social Media Trump Impressions
Over the past several days, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has started posting on his social media accounts in a way intended to mimic President Trump, and on Friday’s PBS News Hour, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was all for it.
MSNBC's Capehart Compares Fear of ICE to Fear of School Shootings!
Appearing as a guest on MSNBC Reports Thursday afternoon, MSNBC weekend anchor Jonathan Capehart compared school fears of immigration agents to fear of school shootings. He went on to claim that immigration agents are "snatching people up off the streets whether they are citizens or not without a care, it seems, for due process or the rule of law."
'Autocratic Slide': MSNBC Hosts Paranoid Professor Who Fled To Canada
MSNBC's The Weekend, in a segment devoted to stalking fears of autocracy and fascism in Trump's America, has as a guest Jason Stanley, who gave up his job as a Yale professor and fled to Canada, “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.”
PBS Attacks 'Corrosion of Democracy' As Texas Redistricts
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.
'Why Have People Not Risen Up?': Brooks Praises Harris on Colbert Show
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…
MSNBC's Capehart Close To 'Bursting Into Tears' Over USAID Job Cuts
During a segment on MSNBC's The Weekend on job cuts at USAID, featuring an interview with Kathleen Borgueta, who had lost her job there, substitute host Maria Teresa Kumar calls USAID "God's work." At the end of the segment, co-host Jonathan Capehart tells the Borgueta, "I'm going to stop talking because I'm going to burst into tears."
PBS Warns Of 'Institutional Capture' As Columbia Settles With Trump
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…
Ex-NPR CEO: Colbert Spoke Truth to Power In a 'Very Bipartisan Way'!
On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, former NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller, commenting on the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, said: "Stephen Colbert is unafraid to again speak truth to power. He does it in a very bipartisan way over the years, and comedy and parody is an important part of a democratic ecosystem."
'It's Shameful': PBS Bemoans State Department Cuts
The cast of PBS News Hour came together on Friday to decry the “shameful” nature of that day’s layoffs at the State Department. While New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart would claim the move would negatively impact U.S. foreign policy, their reasons for doing so were not convincing.
Daniels—What Would Slave-Owning Founders Think Of Blacks Hosting Show?
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels wonders what slave-owning Founding Fathers would think of two African-Americans--Jonathan Capehart and himself--hosting the show. The panel condemns Trump for saying he hates the Democrats, ignoring the torrent of invective that Democrats daily direct at Trump. The panel decries the decline in patriotism in younger generations, ignoring…
