Donald Trump returning to Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday clearly upset PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett on Monday, especially when multiple speakers argued harsh Democrat rhetoric about Trump -- he's Hitler, a threat to Democracy -- inspired assassins.
Bennett didn't object when Jim Acosta and other journalists said Trump's criticism of the "Fake News" media would get them killed.
In the weekly political panel with Amy Walter and NPR's Tamara Keith, Bennett explained: "Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt. And he and some members of his family suggested that Democrats are somehow behind these attempts on his life."
Then he played video of Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and most passionately Eric Trump blaming the Democrats for inflaming the shooters.
He huffed to Walter: "So claims without regard for evidence or propriety. I mean, what are your — what are your takeaways?" Walter gave a conventional answer about how the shooting in Butler didn't moderate Trump's tone. Neither of them would mention that the second assassination attempt came from a guy who called Trump a "threat to democracy," just like the Democrats do.
From there, Bennett turned to Keith and said "there's one last topic I want to get to. It's The New York Times putting a focus on Donald Trump's age and mental cognition. Our friend Peter Baker and his colleagues over there write that: "Donald Trump's speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane, and increasingly fixated on the past." There is this question of, where's the outrage and the criticism that Joe Biden saw when the question was focused on his age and mental capacity?
Keith said the age issue is now "fair game," since Biden was forced out. "He is now the oldest candidate in the race, and he has never released a fulsome health report. He has said he's aced his cognitive exams, but he hasn't ever released non-superlative medical reports."
Earlier, Bennett introduced a clip of Kamala Harris doing the "Call Her Daddy" sex podcast (and he bungled the title), but he had to drag in objectionable Republicans:
BENNETT: She was asked about Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' criticism that somehow Kamala Harris didn't have anyone to keep her humble because she doesn't have biological children. Here's how she responded.
HARRIS: I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble. [SCREEN WIPE] Family comes in many forms, and I think that increasingly all of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore.
Bennett then asked Keith to explain Kamala's interview strategy, which you could ask Team Kamala (if Keith isn't unofficially on it).
PBS felt they had to edit out Kamala rambling about women having love in their life and family in their life and children in their life....PBS just seems to line up their beefs with unfair Republican snark against Democrats.
Earlier this year, Clay Waters reported that PBS News Hour completely miscontrued Trump's remarks about an economic "bloodbath" if Biden was reelected. That was dangerously violent rhetoric. How perfectly partisan.
