PBS Hurls Bad Fact Checks; Vote Concerns May Stir ‘Political Violence'

July 18th, 2024 9:47 PM

PBS’s biased coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention began even before the main event, on Wednesday evening’s PBS News Hour, aiming not only to fact-check the Republicans but even to suggest some Republican voting “misinformation” was dangerous. The tax-funded network’s first fact-check target was…reality TV star, Savannah Chrisley, who discussed her family’s…

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PBS, David Frum Condemn Trump for Using Shooting 'In an Improper Way'

July 18th, 2024 9:18 PM

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour invited Never Trumper David Frum of The Atlantic to Wednesday's episode of Amanpour and Company, where he delivered his usual rigmarole of anti-Republican nonsense. This time, he downplayed the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, claiming he was using it “in an improper way.”

On PBS, Capehart Tells Sad Amy Walter: Stop, Biden's Doing Just FINE!

July 18th, 2024 1:28 PM

A debate broke out on Tuesday night between PBS's resident political analyst and forecaster Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and die-hard Democrat and columnist Jonathan Capehart.

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PBS RNC Night 2: Echoing 'White Supremacist Notions,' No 'Illegals'

July 17th, 2024 5:15 PM

Night Two of coverage of the Republican National Convention was “Make America Safe Once Again,” with politicians and ordinary Americans making speeches relaying stories about crime and the illegal immigration that causes some of that crime. PBS reporters and anchors sounded the alarm from the start, warning that Republicans are trying to instill unwarranted fear and anxiety in voters. At 7:08…

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PBS's Capehart Can't Handle Host's Truth:'The Left Has Vilified' Trump

July 16th, 2024 12:04 AM

PBS’s coverage of Night One of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got off to a bad start during an interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, who’d just delivered an early speech to the convention delegates. At 8:07 ET, News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who is hosting the network’s taxpayer-funded convention coverage along with fellow News Hour co…

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Worried For Democracy, PBS And PolitiFact Unveil Election Partnership

July 13th, 2024 2:15 PM

PolitiFact, one of the fact-checking outlets with the ability to censor your Facebook posts, and PBS, the news channel subsidized by your tax dollars, announced in a joint statement on Friday on their respective websites that they are teaming up for the remainder of the 2024 election cycle, formalizing their June 27 Debate segment.

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PBS Hails Biden Press Conference, Compares Him To Reagan

July 13th, 2024 9:47 AM

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks joined PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday for their weekly recap of the news, which naturally included President Joe Biden’s Thursday press conference. Capehart urged Democrats to stop “self-immolating” over Biden’s candidacy, while Brooks compared him to President…

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PBS Avoids Networks' Pro-Biden Optimism, Reveal Democratic Agonizing

July 11th, 2024 9:39 AM

On Tuesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour, White House reporter Lisa Desjardins sounded unconvinced that President Biden had settled the waters among his Democratic caucus after his awful debate performance, pessimism that stood in contrast to the national news networks, whose White House reporters have hastily leapt back on board the Biden train after a day or so of relative calm on…

2025 Project Offers Blueprint Toward Federal Defunding of PBS, NPR

July 10th, 2024 10:40 AM

The Heritage Foundation’s attention-getting Project 2025 initiative includes a blueprint of limited-government policy proposals for limited government, the 900-page “2025 Mandate for Leadership.” Among those proposals for the next president to peruse was a call to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds the liberal forums PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) and National…

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CBS Reporter Pushes Back on ‘Extreme Language’ of Sotomayor Dissent

July 6th, 2024 10:26 PM

On the latest episode of the PBS political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, host (and Atlantic editor in chief) Jeffrey Goldberg set up New York Times legal reporter Charlie Savage about the “future of presidential power” after the 6-3 ruling expanded presidential immunity and had the knock-on effect of postponing Trump’s classified documents trial and his…

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Tax-Funded MSNBC? PBS Anchor Amna Nawaz Rips Trump as Lying Tyrant

July 6th, 2024 6:42 AM

The PBS News Hour crew is clearly heartsick that the Democrats are in a crisis over Joe Biden's mental decline, and they know their liberal audience wants to change the subject back to Horrible Trump. Sounding like a taxpayer-funded MSNBC host, PBS anchor Amna Nawaz described the former president as a budding authoritarian full of lies in the Friday pundit roundtable with David Brooks…

FLASHBACK: Lib Media Hated Hur’s ‘Elderly...Poor Memory’ Biden Report

July 5th, 2024 9:38 AM

In February, journalists vilified then-Special Counsel Robert Hur for honestly reporting that the decision not to pursue charges against Biden for willfully mishandling classified documents was because a jury would likely find Biden a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

Column: PBS Stuffs News Hour with 'Torrent of Lies' Trump Trash Talk

July 3rd, 2024 5:55 AM

Taxpayer-funded PBS is inaccurately branded as the fairest, most unemotional TV news outlet. Anyone looking at PBS right after Biden’s disastrous debate would have realized they were more favorable to Biden than anyone else. They steered clear of the dominant panic among Democrats. They sounded more like the DNC than MSNBC. Friday's News Hour was fiercely anti-Trump.

PolitiFact's 100 Percent Anti-Trump Post-Debate TILT Underlined by PBS

June 30th, 2024 1:23 PM

As we noted PBS tried hardest to support the Biden spin after their disastrous debate, on Friday night, the PBS News Hour strongly stuck to the Biden narrative that Trump lost the debate by unleashing a flood of lies. PBS turned to the badly disguised Democrats at PolitiFact for analysis, whose post-debate analysis couldn't find anything Trump said was true. They loaded 16 claims that…