NewsBusters Podcast: Ridiculous 'No Evidence' Biden Impeachment Spin

September 13th, 2023 10:34 PM

The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, and the press promptly repeated the ridiculous but mandatory line that Republicans have “no evidence” of Biden being involved in his son’s influence-peddling. Plus: the cops captured the escaped murderer in Pennsylvania who couldn’t be tagged as an illegal alien.

PBS Weeps Over Denying ‘Gender-affirming Care’ for TX Transgender Kids

September 5th, 2023 11:36 PM

Friday’s edition of the tax-supported PBS NewsHour reacted with alarm about news that what the left calls “gender-affirming medical care” for children (i.e., puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and irrevocable surgeries) has been outlawed in Texas. Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez: "...it's important to note that all of the major American medical associations say that this is -- gender-…

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PBS Roundtable Hails Haley, But GOP ‘Emboldened to Say Racist Things'

August 26th, 2023 10:42 PM

It’s clear who would win PBS’s vote for the Republican Party nomination: Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who in the first GOP presidential debate bowed to “reality” by declaring a federal law against abortion a non-starter. Washington Week host Laura Barron-Lopez and NPR reporter Domenico Montanaro accused Tea Party activists and Tea Party rally attendees of racist thought,…

PBS Blasts 'Inhumane' Gov. Abbott Border Step With Lib Rep, Lib Journo

August 18th, 2023 5:05 PM

A segment on the supposedly “inhumane treatment” of would-be migrants along the Texas-Mexico border under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s program “Operation Lone Star,” which aired on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday evening, was a perfect example of the taxpayer-funded network’ coverage of current events.

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PBS Cheers on Bidenomics vs Trump's 'Tax Giveaways to the Ultra Rich'

August 16th, 2023 1:55 PM

On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez acted as mouthpiece for the Biden administration to trumpet the so-called success of Bidenomics, tied to the president’s recent campaign trek to Milwaukee marking the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. For this partially taxpayer-funded report, Barron-Lopez cited the Democratic vice-president…

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PBS, Atlantic Team to Tar DeSantis: Autocrat Dishing Violent Rhetoric

August 14th, 2023 6:32 AM

PBS’s weekly political roundtable show Washington Week has a new “editorial partner” and a new name but the same liberal philosophy. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic monthly, is now moderator of the awkwardly rebranded Washington Week with The Atlantic. Under Goldberg’s tenure, The Atlantic has turned into a Democratic hive, and he’…

PBS Touts ‘Startling Connections': 'Gun Ownership...White Supremacy'

July 26th, 2023 1:31 PM

Congressional reporter Laura Barron-Lopez interviewed leftist professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss for Monday’s PBS News Hour. Miler-Idriss is well known at both left-wing MSNBC and the supposedly objective, taxpayer-supported PBS for her wacky notions. Previously she linked going to the gym with far-right extremism. Monday’s ostensible subject was gun violence, but the host and her…

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Washington Week Skips GOP Hearings Entirely, Lusts Over Trump in Jail

July 23rd, 2023 12:34 PM

The PBS journalist roundtable Washington Week would never put on a Fox News correspondent or a Washington Times reporter -- they're too opinionated? But on July 21, as they obsessed over a potential third Trump indictment, they brought on Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, whose partisanship knows no bounds.

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PBS 'Washington Week' Forecasts Doom for DeSantis on 'Anti-Trans' Ad

July 8th, 2023 10:19 PM

On the Friday night PBS roundtable Washington Week, the journalists offered the usual servings for the two parties. The Democrats were merely described...and the Republicans were marked as doomed to lose. 

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PBS, VICE Smear Parents Group Moms for Liberty as Violent Harassers

July 3rd, 2023 7:17 PM

Friday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS News Hour took a jab at the influential new conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty, which drew some Republican presidential candidates to its convention last week. Moms was founded to oppose school closings and mask-vaccine mandates in schools and which now targets the teaching of Critical Race Theory and gender identity in schools.…

Predictable PBS: ‘Hillary Clinton's Case Is Completely Different'

June 14th, 2023 9:30 PM

Tuesday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS NewsHour aired a segment on Trump’s latest indictment, over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate, that was devoted to neutralizing Republican accusations of a double standard between the political parties over document-related prosecutions, using an unlabeled Democratic lawyer and operative as cover.

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PBS Compares Hormones For 8-Year Olds To Treatment For Ear Pain

June 13th, 2023 11:55 AM

PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez continued her recent streak of transgender activism on Monday night by interviewing Prof. Michelle Forcier who compared giving hormones to 8-year olds to treatment for an earache.

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PBS 'Washington Week' Insists Biden Is 'Independent' of DOJ on Trump

June 12th, 2023 1:15 PM

The PBS Friday night journalist roundtable show Washington Week sounded like State-Run TV as guest host Laura Barron-Lopez touted the “revealing and damning” Trump indictment by Biden’s Justice Department. It was the only topic for the half-hour. She methodically repeated the White House spin on the Justice Department's independence as her own take.

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS, NPR, & VOA Provide a Play Mat for Democrats

June 9th, 2023 10:48 PM

"Public" broadcasting is for liberals. PBS and the Voice of America offered softball questions to Biden on his Pride Month activities at the White House. NPR set up House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries to denounce "extreme MAGA Republicans," and attacked the "far right" on election integrity.