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'PUBLIC' TV Watch: PBS Reserves 'Controversial' Label for Trump

April 30th, 2025 4:15 PM

The word “controversial” is often a word used to signal to viewers that someone is politically radioactive. So naturally, the liberal minds in “public” broadcasting must use it in a tilted way. From November 2024 through April 20, 2025, Trump and his team were labeled "controversial" 45 times. Biden drew the term once -- for blocking Nippon Steel's acquistion of U.S. Steel -- a position he…

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Very Biased PBS Reporter Tries to Defend Law-Breaking Wisconsin Judge

April 28th, 2025 9:42 AM

On Friday’s PBS News Hour, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, the program’s most biased journalist, did her best to defend the indefensible: Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested and charged with obstruction after allegedly protecting a migrant from ICE agents, by sending him out a restricted jury door to prevent him being arrested. He appeared before Dugan to face three…

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PBS Celebrates Leftist Cartoonist Who Drew Trump With a Swastika Baton

April 27th, 2025 7:06 PM

Friday’s PBS News Hour celebrated liberal political cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who resigned in a huff from the Washington Post when a cartoon mocking Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was rejected, part of PBS’s “Art in Action” coverage, “exploring the intersection of art and democracy.”

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Brooks Hails Arrested Judge's 'Heroic' 'Civil Disobedience'

April 26th, 2025 9:30 AM

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,…

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PBS Raises 'Constitutional' Bar for Deporting Illegals: Trials Needed?

April 24th, 2025 5:21 PM

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour fretted over the “wrongful deportation” of the media’s favorite Maryland resident, illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, back to El Salvador, and suggested that it's unconstitutional not to give every illegal immigrant a trial before deportation.

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PBS Marks Earth Day With 'Environmental Justice' Scare-Mongering

April 22nd, 2025 1:20 PM

Taxpayer-funded PBS marked Earth Day with typical liberal scare-mongering on its news programs, hosting a Washington Post “environmental health” journalist who sounded more like an environmental health activist on a quest for so-called environmental justice, followed by a radical environmentalist, with no dissenting guests and few if any challenging questions posed. First up on Sunday…

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PBS's Marx-Quoting 'Conservative' Urges Strikes To Protest Trump

April 19th, 2025 9:47 AM

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…

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PBS News Segment Defends Taxpayer Funding, Dismisses Bias Criticism!

April 18th, 2025 9:26 AM

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Trump administration’s efforts to cut taxpayer funding for PBS and National Public Radio. PBS didn’t present its critics beyond generalities, while anchor Amna Nawaz and reporter William Brangham took the opportunity to lobby for themselves. Anchor Amna Nawaz: As we have been reporting, the Trump administration wants to cut the federal funds that…

PBS Ignores Murder by Illegal in Favor of Sad Deportation Coverage

April 17th, 2025 9:49 AM

Tuesday evening’s PBS News Hour, guest hosted by reporter William Brangham, opened with a full nine-minute segment on the “mistaken” deportation of El Salvadoran illegal immigrant (misleadingly named “Maryland man” by the press) Kilmar Abrego Garcia by reporter Laura Barron-Lopez. Yet that same news outlet -- including in the mix PBS News Weekend -- has spent 0 seconds (the…

PBS's David Brooks Condemns GOP: 'Adultery, Abuse, Cruelty, Grift'

April 15th, 2025 9:42 AM

In The Atlantic magazine, David Brooks penned a harsh 4,500-word epithet of an essay, “Everything We Once Believed In.” The online headline: “I Should Have Seen This Coming -- When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.”

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PBS Uses Stealth Biden Treasury Staffer to Criticize DOGE's IRS Cuts

April 12th, 2025 9:43 PM

Wednesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour took on yet another unlabeled liberal or Democrat-linked critic of Trump as its guest expert on an issue, this time defending the dubious idea of tax-related privacy rights for illegal immigrants against DOGE’s budget cuts to the IRS and warning the agency could well implode during tax season as a result: "For decades, the IRS encouraged…

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Brooks on Trump, Democracy: 'We No Longer Live In That System'

April 12th, 2025 9:48 AM

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…

'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: PBS and NPR Delight LGBTQ Propagandists

April 12th, 2025 8:35 AM

As much as the CEOs of PBS and NPR claim to Congress they are nonpartisan and unbiased, there are many ways to demonstrate they careen to the Left. Shortly after their House hearing, the leftist Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued their "GLAAD Media Awards" and honored PBS and NPR for completely one-sided promotion of the LGBTQ agenda. 

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PBS Gushes Over Booker's 'Inspiring' and 'Upbeat' Speech

April 5th, 2025 9:36 AM

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour could hardly contain their excitement over Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech denouncing all things Donald Trump. Host Amna Nawaz claimed it “inspired” people, a point echoed by Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, who labeled it “inspiring.” Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Booker for…