PBS Health Hypocrisy: 'Renewed Scrutiny' for Trump, Unlike Biden Woes
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour was an exhibition in partisan hypocrisy as co-anchor Amna Nawaz teamed with White House correspondent Liz Landers, finding news in the case of an 80-year-old man going to the doctor. This after the show belatedly arrived at the issue of President Joe Biden’s actual physical and mental infirmity, then tried to downplay the media’s dereliction of duty.
PBS Asks Jon Meacham About the 'Tragedy' of Biden Trying to Run in '24
On Tuesday’s PBS News Hour, they spent six minutes playing a fraction of their “Settle In” podcast interview with Democrat historian (and former Newsweek editor) Jon Meacham.
On PBS, NYT's Cooper Issues Smear: Black Marine Fears Racist Hegseth!
The focus of Friday’s Washington Week in Review journalist roundtable (which aired on the eve of Memorial Day weekend) was the Department of Defense, especially on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s war against wokeism, which the panel disapproved of, especially New York Times national security correspondent Helene Cooper, who all but accused Hegseth and the Trump Administration…
Shocking: PBS Takes Up DNC 2024 Autopsy, But Only As a Helpful Chat
The Friday night Week In Politics segment of the PBS News Hour is almost always focused on blasting Trump. So it was shocking when they took up the DNC “autopsy” of their 2024 losses, allowing MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart to lecture Democrats to stop internal fighting…minutes after he mocked the Republican resistance to Trump as a “one-cell organism.”
PBS's Encomium to Heroic James Comey: 'Is Trump's DOJ 'Irreparable'?
Former FBI Director James Comey was granted a 10-minute-long interview on the PBS News Hour, ostensibly to discuss his new fiction thriller, but mostly for host Geoff Bennett to elicit condemnation of President Trump, in response to Comey’s indictment by the Department of Justice for his infamous, since-deleted 2025 Instagram post composed of seashells on the beach spelling out "86 47…
PBS CAIR Package: Israel-Haters Experts on Lowering the Temperature?
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour invited the worst possible guest expert to comment on the deadly shooting at an Islamic center in San Diego: The deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR’s sordid Israel-hating history should render a spokesman from the group discreditable.
Jonathan Capehart Hypes Xi's 'High-Class Shade' At Trump During Summit
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday to recap President Trump’s recent trip to China and hype the idea that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping threw some “high-class shade” at Trump when he invoked the idea of the Thucydides Trap.
PBS: Is Ending Racial Gerrymandering in Louisiana 'Unfair,' 'Racist'?
Tuesday’s PBS News Hour predictably injected racism allegations into its coverage of the Supreme Court striking down race-based gerrymandering in Louisiana v. Callais, even covering the story under its portentous “Race Matters” series rubric. White House correspondent Liz Landers traveled to Baton Rouge to collect accusations of racism -- though to be fair, the first…
Column: Networks Manufacture a Mini-Scandal Over a Video 'Road Trip'
One of the games in scandal politics is about “optics" -- when an official does something that just looks bad. Barack Obama fans pretend that his only scandal was wearing a tan suit to a press conference in 2014.The latest example is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy filming a video series for YouTube called The Great American Road Trip, all to celebrate the 250th…
Hypocritical PBS Full of Personal Trump Mockery, 25th Amendment Insult
PBS’s Friday evening political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic got nasty and personal about President Donald Trump, going beyond criticism of his handling of the Iran War to mock him personally and suggest he’s demented. After The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire damned the war in Iran (“Gas prices are up. His poll numbers are down. Very few of the U.S. military goals…
After Virginia Loss, PBS Asks 'Are Republicans Rigging The System'
After the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the state’s redistricting referendum violated the state constitution on Firday, PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz parroted California Gov. Gavin Newsom by asking The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and The New Yorker contributor Ruth Marcus if Republicans are “rigging the system."
PBS's Foltyn Again Avoids Hezbollah Crimes, Accuses IDF of 'Massacres'
Does PBS have a problem with Israel? Its recent treatment of Iran-backed, Israel-targeting Hezbollah terrorists suggests so. On Tuesday’s PBS News Hour, Beirut-based special correspondent Simona Foltyn once again focused solely on unavoidable civilian casualties caused by vengeful Israel, with no mention of Hezbollah’s history of terrorist violence or its consistent breaking of…
Safe for Whom? Amanpour Show Touts Abortion Pills as 'Safe' 12 TIMES
Abortion proponents love to claim abortion pills are "safe," but for whom? It's not "safe" for the baby being killed. One half of the humans involved in abortion are utterly dehumanized, not even considered in the safety equation. On the PBS show Amanpour & Co., guest host Bianna Golodryga and her abortion-lobbyist guest touted the pills as "safe" (and typically "safe and…
PBS Defends Forest Service Bureaucracy From Reform With Sob Stories
Monday’s PBS News Hour pushed the sympathy buttons and employed scare tactics to protect yet another government agency threatened by Trump-era reform and budget cuts, the U.S. Forest Service. Reporter William Brangham implied federal employees deserve to be shielded from harsh job cuts, in a way American workers in the private sector have not.
