Capehart Attacks GOP For 'Cruelty' Amid Shutdown He Supported
The last month has been difficult for MSNBC host and PBS News Hour contributor Jonathan Capehart’s intellectual consistency, as he can’t decide whether the government shutdown is proof that Democrats are finally growing a spine or, as he claimed on Friday, whether “there’s a meanness and a cruelty” to the shutdown that is all Republicans’ fault.
PBS Worries That Midterm Elections Will Be Like Those In Russia
Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company went off the rails when guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed The Atlantic staff writer David Graham to discuss supposed threats to next year’s midterm elections. The duo would muse about everything from Marines seizing ballot boxes to the idea that the elections will be the fake sort that you get in places like Russia, but no…
PBS Plugs Book on Trump’s 'Decade-Long Effort to Politicize' DOJ
The PBS News Hour hailed the new book Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, co-written by Aaron Davis of the Washington Post and Carol Leonnig, now at MSNBC after 25 years at the Post and co-author of two previous anti-Trump books. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett interviewed the pair on Tuesday’s News Hour. The…
No Respect: PBS Piles on Cheney's 'Polarizing...Controversial' Legacy
PBS News Hour’s coverage Tuesday of the death of former Republican vice president Dick Cheney wasn't particularly generous for an obituary, bookended with belittling jabs at Cheney from both anchor and reporter. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: “….and we examine the life of the highly…
Oh SNAP! PBS News Devotes First 14 Minutes to Alleged US Hunger Crisis
The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid. First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks…
NPR Nudges Jonah Goldberg: Trump Is Cheney's 'Frankenstein Monster'
As part of their breaking-news coverage of Dick Cheney's death, NPR's Morning Edition turned to Jonah Goldberg. Anchor Steve Inskeep had to make it about Trump. Goldberg said Cheney must have felt that Trump was "a little bit like a Frankenstein's monster," running roughshod over his arguments for an energetic executive branch and a muscular military.
PBS Plugs Jon Karl's Book, Comparing Trump to 'Breaking Bad' Kingpin
A night after the PBS News Hour hosted a book-plugging interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip, they turned on Wednesday to ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl to plug his fourth anti-Trump book, Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America. PBS led off with Karl's comparison of Donald Trump to Walter White, the murderous drug kingpin at the center…
Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Over Threats To Democracy
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away…
NPR: 'Danger' in Trump Calling Antifa Terrorist, Not in Antifa Itself
In “As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group, experts see danger,” which aired Tuesday on NPR, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas ushered in the civil liberties panic, over President Trump having designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization last month, after years of the group organizing into cells in progressive cities like Portland and picking fights and destroying…
PBS Praises CNN Host's 'Terrific' Book on 'Towering' Jesse Jackson
Monday’s PBS News Hour invited Abby Phillip, liberal host of CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip, for a gush-fest over “A Dream Deferred,” her new book on the former inflammatory Democratic politician Jesse Jackson. There were no recollections of Jackson’s 1984 campaign-era “Hymie-town” smear of Jews in New York City, nothing of his 2004 election denial of George W. Bush’s…
NPR Touches on Biden Autopen Probe -- ONLY on Keeping Biden's Pardons
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued a report on its investigation of how Biden’s White House aides hid his mental decline. ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nothing. PBS offered a dismissive brief. How about NPR’s All Things Considered? You won’t believe what they considered.
PBS News Hour Marks 50 Years by Lying: It's 'Even-Handed to a Fault'
The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: Finally tonight, we have been marking a milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the "PBS News Hour." Before we go, we have a look back at our beginnings and at how the "News Hour" has evolved over five decades, while remaining…
PBS Falls Overboard on East Wing Demolition: 'Shocking to Conscience'
On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg devoted 14 minutes -- over half the show’s 22-minute discussion time -- to the East Wing demolition undertaken by President Trump, using private funding, in order to build a much-needed White House ballroom. After the introduction, where Goldberg complained “President Trump this week took a wrecking ball to the…
PBS Claims Redistricting 'Race To The Bottom' Is GOP's Fault
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe counterpart Kimberly Atkins Stohr joined forces on Friday’s PBS News Hour to lament the nation’s redistricting “race to the bottom,” which they blamed solely on Republicans.
