Public Broadcasting

PBS Mounts 'Gratuitous' Defense of Biden From Hur's Hurtful Report
The latest edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic waited until the 20th minute of the 26-minute episode (after an admittedly busy news week) to address concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory, after the release of Robert Hur’s alarming special report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg said "obviously it's a legitimate…

PBS: Biden Special Counsel Was Performing for 'MAGA Republicans'
The PBS NewsHour Friday followed up its ridiculously supportive story Thursday evening on mentally declining President Joe Biden who held a presser to lash out at a damning special counsel report documenting his false statements about how he treated classified documents, as well as documenting his problems remembering important events. Thursday night's program featured, as its expert…

‘Mentally, He’s Quite Acute’:Biden’s Pathetic Presser Mocks PBS Praise
President Joe Biden held a truly disastrous off-the-cuff press conference Thursday night, spurred by a damning special counsel report from Robert Hur on Biden’s unauthorized retention of classified documents. While Hur said no criminal charges were warranted, his report included the devastating argument that it would be hard to convict the president given that “Mr. Biden would likely present…

'Over The Line': PBS Condemns 'Gratuitous' Hur Report On Biden's Age
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Amna Nawaz on Friday to recap the week’s biggest stories, including Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report that claimed he could not win a conviction in President Joe Biden’s classified documents case because a jury would view him as a sympathetic old…

PBS Dismisses Biden's Documents, Memory With Yale Prof (Biden Donor!)
On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, the taxpayer-funded newscast labored to dismiss the special counsel's report on Biden's misuse of classified documents as nothing like Donald Trump's misuse, and turned to a Yale Law professor named Oona Hathaway to explain why no one should care about this. Here's one way to know PBS rigged it: Hathaway donated $1500 to Biden in 2020, $1500 to Obama in…

NPR Anchor Finds GOP Veteran to Trash Conservatives as 'Post-Policy'
We know about CNN Republicans and MSNBC Republicans, but there are also NPR Republicans. Brendan Buck, a former aide to Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, is a semi-regular pundit on Meet the Press. On Thursday, Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep kept asking Buck to describe Republicans as insincere extremists who don't want to govern. Buck played right along, calling…

PBS NewsHour Backs Biden on 'Incredibly Consequential' Border Bill
As a controversial border security bill is held up in Congress, President Joe Biden is claiming he’s done all he can to keep the southern border secure, blaming Trump and Republicans in Congress for border woes. Yet even liberally slanted Politifact noted Biden ended President Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" program that required some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting their…

PBS's Frontline Pops Anti-Trump Popcorn for Libs: 'Democracy on Trial'
PBS’s leftish investigative show Frontline devoted a two-and-a-half-hour episode, complete with trademark liberal melodrama, to the impending trial of former President Donald Trump, related to the Capitol Hill rampage of January 6, 2021. The Democratic-dominated committee's final report a blueprint for Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith. An indictment against Trump followed…

PBS Smears Speaker Johnson as Christian Extremist Linked to January 6
From Amanpour & Co. to the PBS NewsHour, public television is all over the threat of “Christian Nationalism” as the 2024 presidential campaign gathers steam. Thursday evening’s edition featured perhaps the most conservative-hostile reporter on staff, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, to offer its taxpayer-funded liberal alarmism regarding devout Trump…

Amanpour Prods Israel to Surrender to Two-State Solution Despite Hamas
Journalist Christiane Amanpour’s eponymous international affairs show (airing on PBS and CNN International) is obsessed with getting Israel to back down from its war on the terrorist group Hamas and make potentially dangerous concessions to Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Thursday’s Amanpour & Co., devoted almost entirely to anti-Israel points, featured not one but two guests in a row who…

PBS, NPR Fawn Over Clyburn Without Mentioning Biden's Dem Challengers
On Friday night, both NPR and PBS rolled out their red carpets for South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn to talk about the Democrat presidential primary season officially beginning in his state -- NPR offered eight minutes, PBS seven. Nowhere in those 15 minutes did either the hosts or the guest mention that President Biden had any primary opposition. The names Dean Phillips and Marianne…

PBS Hands 'Meathead' Megaphone to Bash Trump-Loving Christians in Doc
Christiane Amanpour was eager to promote on her eponymous PBS program new documentary, “God & Country,” on the supposed threat posed by “Christian nationalism in America,” produced by actor, director, and veteran liberal alarmist Rob Reiner. Amanpour underlined that "Christian nationalism" inspired the January 6 riot "as the mob inside claimed to be defending Christian supremacy in America…

PBS Smear Hour: Accusing Trump, Fox, and GOP of ‘Dog-Whistle’ Racism
The taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour fiercely attacked both presidential candidate Donald Trump and its journalistic competitors Fox News for racism in a segment that appeared online under the heading “Trump deploys racist tactics as Biden rematch appears likely.” They reached back to smear Nixon and Reagan as well as they talked to a leftist about "dog-whistle politics."

Tom Friedman on PBS: Why Won't Press Ask Hamas Leader About Killing?
The PBS current affairs program Amanpour & Co. on Thursday hosted the invariably self-assured long-time New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who unleashed some harsh criticism of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But then things took a surprising and welcome turn, as Friedman criticized journalists’ double standards in its war coverage. What about…