POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!
The results of the Worst Media Quote of the Week are in, and the winner is…Stephanie Ruhle!
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PBS: Will Brown-Skin Voter ‘Get Shot in Parking Lot’ at Polls by ICE?
This week’s Washington Week with The Atlantic hailed from Austin, Texas, the liberal heart of the state, before a live studio audience with presumably Democratic sympathies (much like the show’s television audience). A major theme of the discussion: The positive prospects of the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Texas State Rep. James Talarico, neck and neck in polls with the…
The 'Public' Broadcasters Go Soft on Hasan Piker
The networks have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.The PBS News Hour hasn’t mentioned Piker, but it came up on Washington Week. NPR's reporting was weak.
Washington Week Shucks ‘Oysterman’ Platner, Still Touts Hopes for Dems
The latest Washington Week with The Atlantic roundtable on PBS featured not only criticism but cynicism regarding the Democratic Party’s slimy embrace of Graham Platner, the disgraced former U.S. Senate candidate for Maine, credibly accused of sexual assault. Yet the journalist panel remained high on Democratic prospects for the Senate, even in Maine.
PBS's Goldberg on Trump’s ‘Almost Lip-Smacking Embrace of Indecency'
It was a Jeffrey Goldberg double feature on PBS over the weekend, as the Atlantic editor in chief and host of the Friday night political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic guided his journalist guests (with three of the five affiliated with The Atlantic) through an America’s 250th-anniversary themed discussion, in front of the unusual setting of studio audience.
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 of racism and…
Sneering 'Washington Week' Mocks Kash Patel With Bourbon Bash
President Trump wasn’t the only administration figure who came in for extraneous mockery on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic. Trump’s FBI director Kash Patel turn in the (bourbon] barrel came complete with a prop, making for a jarring image for the generally more conventional-looking broadcast. Atlantic editor-in-chief and show moderator Jeffrey Goldberg kept the hits coming, after his…
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 have actually been…
PBS Sees Loathing of GOP in AZ: Voters 'Livid,' House Dems May Be +3
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of The Atlantic was the star of the latest episode of the journalist roundtable Washington Week. After moderator (and Sanchez boss) Jeffrey Goldberg introduced the program with the dubious claim that “Iran is in the driver’s seat in the Gulf,” among other debatable anti-Trump declarations, he pivoted to Sanchez, a Phoenix-based reporter making her Washington Week debut,…
PBS Offers Overdue Peek Into the Democrats’ Own Epstein-File Struggles
PBS's Washington Week with The Atlantic remains a reliably Democrat-boosting/Republican-bashing political roundtable, but this Friday the show featured a tiny, overdue peek into an under-covered angle of the sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga, which thus far the media has used as a cudgel against President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. It turns out Democrats have their own…
PBS Sounds OK With Democrats Heckling Trump as a LIAR at SOTU Address
On Friday’s weekly PBS journalists roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, panel regular Susan Glasser of the New Yorker foisted insults on President Trump for being obliged to appear at the State of the Union after losing on tariffs at the Supreme Court, “I really think that this is a really embarrassing political moment for Donald Trump to be going up to Capitol Hill for the State of…
Unanimous Partisan PBS Pundit Panel Horrified About Don Lemon's Arrest
The unanimously Trump-bashing PBS pundit show Washington Week with The Atlantic came rushing to the defense of Don Lemon on their Friday night pitch-and-catch. Host Jeffrey Goldberg claimed "Don Lemon was arrested for covering a protest inside a church in Minneapolis.”
PBS Show: Only 'Tinpot Dictators' Would Add Name to the Kennedy Center
PBS used to call its Friday night journalists roundtable Washington Week In Review. It's now Washington Week with The Atlantic, but it could be called Trashing Trump's Week In Review. Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center caused an all-night freakout. On the PBS News Hour, David Brooks compared Trump to Stalin and Mao. On this show, it was just "tinpot dictators" in general.
