Jonathan Capehart

PBS Warns GOP 'Cheapening' Impeachment Without a 'Holy Cow' Moment
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett on Friday for their regularly scheduled recap of the week’s top stories. The trio warned that because Republicans have “no evidence” or “holy cow” moment, they are “cheapening the whole impeachment process.”

Brooks Alleges Republicans 'Don't Really Have Anything' On Bidens
New York Times columnist David Brooks is supposed to be the conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s Brooks and Capehart weekly roundup, but often fails to deliver. Such was the case on Friday as Brooks dismissed the DOJ’s decision to indict Hunter Biden on gun charges as an “ancillary issue” and claim Republicans “don't really have anything” on Joe Biden.

'THE FIX IS IN!' MSNBC Panics SCOTUS Will Uphold Alabama's Maps
On Tuesday night’s The ReidOut, guest host Jonathan Capehart and two of his guests panicked over the realization that if the dispute over the redrawing of Alabama’s congressional maps makes it to the United States Supreme Court, the high court will side with Alabama and let their congressional map stand.

Capehart: DeSantis Signals Those Who Believe Blacks Are 'Inferior'
Not only did Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart tell the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has nobody to blame, but himself for being booed in the aftermath of the Jacksonville shooting, but that DeSantis’s policies sent a signal to those who believe “Black people are inferior and therefore are worthy of extermination.”

Capehart Baffled Trump Leading In Iowa, Based on a Sample of Three!
On his MSNBC show on Saturday, Capehart wondered out loud how Donald Trump could be leading by 24 points among Iowa Republicans. After all, the show had just rolled clips of three people at the Iowa state fair saying they want to move on to someone else!

Capehart Mourns GOP Voters Being Fed a 'Anti-Biden Family Diet'
Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.

MSNBC Spin Ruined? Ex-Garland Aide LOVES Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 Case
On Jonathan Capehart's Saturday Show on MSNBC, Anthony Coley, a former senior adviser to Attorney General Merrick Garland, said he was pleased that Tanya Chutkan, the judge chosen to preside over Donald Trump's J6 trial, had sentenced J6 defendants to longer sentences than the prosecutors had requested.

Brooks: GOP Position On Oil Drilling 'Is a Way to Offend The Elites'
PBS NewsHour’s weekly recap with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart began with a discussion on, of all things, Republican attitudes towards climate change. During the discussion, Brooks, the supposedly conservative half of the duo, reduced oil drilling to a simple way of Republicans to offend elite…

WashPost Writers Fight On Hunter's 'Sweetheart Deal,' Hillary's Server
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart may have got more than he bargained for on Friday’s PBS NewsHour as he took great offense to colleague and contributor Gary Abernathy’s assessment that the Department of Justice cannot continue to indict former President Donald Trump while giving “a sweetheart deal” to Hunter Biden and expect to be taken seriously. Later,…

PBS Cheers Harris Attacking Florida's New History Standards
Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy and associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett to recap the week that was by not only excluding any mention of the House hearing on IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, but finding consensus that Vice President Harris is correct to attack Florida Gov. Ron…

PBS Accuses GOP of 'Screwing Up' The Military For 'Culture Wars'
PBS NewHour host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart came together on Friday to discuss multiple-defense related controversies from the past week and accuse Republicans of “screwing up” the military for the sake of their “culture wars.”

Sharpton: Anti-Reparations Republicans Must Think Blacks Are Inferior
On Jonathan Capehart's Sunday Show on MSNBC, Al Sharpton suggests that Republicans opposed to affirmative action and reparations believe that blacks are "genetically inferior."

Capehart Claims Biden Needs to Censor in the 'Middle of a Pandemic'
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, co-host Amna Nawaz expressed alarm that a federal judge issued a ruling that "essentially bans the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies about misinformation or disinformation online." PBS political analyst Jonathan Capehart found it mind-boggling "in the middle of a pandemic." What time machine is he traveling in?

MS-DNC Pundits Compete to Smear Casey DeSantis: 'America's Karen'
Guests on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show compete to see who can make the ugliest slur of Casey DeSantis, wife of Ron. Former Republican David Jolly calls her "America's Karen," and Lincoln Project member Tara Setmayer calls her "a Serena Waterford wannabe," a reference to the character from The Handmaid's Tale who has been described as "the cruel, fanatically religious wife of Fred Waterford,…