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PBS Flouts Goldwater Rule: Invites Shrink to Diagnose Trump Dementia
Anchor Amna Nawaz hosted clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis on Thursday’s PBS News Hour for a segment that felt very much like a violation of the psychiatric profession's so-called Goldwater Rule: If he is reelected, former President Donald Trump, now 78 years old, would be the oldest president ever elected. After a number of appearances where his remarks were rambling or incoherent…

Goldberg: Harris Calling Trump a Fascist Is Only 'Allegedly Extreme'
After days of declaring that Donald Trump admires Adolf Hitler and dismissing evidence that his scoop that Trump cursed in a racist manner at the cost of a military funeral was false, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, took his place in the anchor’s chair of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic and declared it is only “allegedly extreme” for Kamala Harris to…

LA Times Columnist Blasts 'Extremely Frustrating' Non-Endorsement
Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson joined PBS News Hour on Friday to attack his paper’s “extremely frustrating” decision not to endorse Kamala Harris in the presidential election. New York Times counterpart and alleged conservative counterweight David Brooks agreed, saying the Times and Washington Post’s similar decision “hurt the integrity of the paper.”

PBS Runs Anonymous Atlantic Hit on Hitler-Loving, Mexican-Hating Trump
Liberal media symbiosis in action: Jeffrey Goldberg. editor-and-chief of The Atlantic and host of the PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic, appeared as a guest on Wednesday’s PBS News Hour program to discuss his own anonymously sourced Atlantic hit piece, “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.'"

PBS on Trump: 'Spent Time Sowing Fear Around Transgender Americans'
The PBS News Hour led off two nights in a row with campaign trail reports from Laura Barron-Lopez, their most partisan reporter. Anchor Geoff Bennett set the scene Monday evening, with Donald Trump in North Carolina on a post-hurricane Helene trip and Kamala Harris touring with former Republican congresswoman and famed anti-Trumper Liz Cheney. The story’s online headline did much of…

PBS Ties Vance to 'Far Right' Preacher, Kamala Not Tied to Sharpton
When Republican vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance appeared at a Christian conservative town hall in Monroeville, Penn., hosted by controversial right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau on September 28, PBS ran a full story two days later on the threat of “Christian Nationalism” and by implication, of Vance himself. Never mind that Vance was not actually interviewed by Wallnau, who didn’t even…

PBS Pushes Blackmail: LGBTQ Teen Suicides Due to GOP 'Targeting' Trans
PBS News Weekend aired yet another story Sunday on suicides by “LGBTQ-plus” teenagers allegedly due to callous Republicans passing laws “targeting transgender people.” Openly gay anchor John Yang and other members of the PBS News crew regularly push the emotional blackmail claim that gender dysphoric kids are at higher risk of suicide, which is exactly the scary message the gender…

On PBS, Susan Glasser Sees Trump as 'Soviet'-Style Threat to Democracy
On Friday’s edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, it was The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser who dished out the most inflammatory anti-Trump statements, trying to literally scare up Democratic votes as the Harris campaign lists less than three weeks before the presidential election: "Kamala Harris is no longer making fun of Donald Trump and saying he’s weird. She`s saying…

PBS Urges Against Downplaying 'The Role That Sexism' Affects Harris
PBS News Hour sought to answer the question on Friday of why Kamala Harris is struggling with male voters. Both New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed that it is important not to “downplay the role that sexism” plays here.

Balance, PBS-Style: A Dem Harris Supporter vs. a GOP Harris Supporter
Behold tax-funded PBS’s idea of balanced election coverage: A “Republican” campaign strategist who endorsed the Democrat was interviewed on Tuesday night’s show, and a die-hard Democratic partisan strategist on Wednesday night. Former John McCain campaign strategist Mike Murphy had already signed a letter endorsing Harris over Trump, yet somehow appeared as a “Republican.”

PolitiFact Founder Indulges His Bias on PBS: Republicans Love to Lie!
Bill Adair, Duke University journalism professor and founder of the “fact-checking” site PolitiFact, indulged his warped scales with a sympathetic host on tax-funded PBS, sending out a fair-and-balanced message: Republicans love to lie! Adair: "[Democrats] feel shame in ways that I'm afraid too many politicians on the right do not…."

PBS's Barron-Lopez Brings on Hysterical Guest to Tag Trump as a Tyrant
The online headline captured the tone of Monday’s PBS News Hour segment from the dueling Trump and Harris presidential campaigns: “Trump ramps up his dangerous political rhetoric in final weeks of campaign.” Taxpayer-supported PBS even let its gross partisanship show while showcasing the segment on X: "On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris is working to shore up support…

PBS Presses Emotional Hot Buttons to Push US Citizenship for Illegals
There was more one-sided immigration propaganda issued from tax-supported PBS on Sunday, as PBS News Weekend pushed President Biden’s “Keeping Families Together” plan, which would stay deportations and streamline the acquiring of citizenship for spouses of U.S. citizens who are in the country illegally, a plan currently on hold while being challenged by Republicans in federal court.…

PBS or MSNBC? 'News Hour' Pundits Hit Shameless GOP for Hurricane Lies
Kamala Harris may be losing, but the Friday night pundits on the PBS News Hour came back around to screaming about hurricane disinformation from the Republicans. Good Republicans rate Team Biden as very helpful.