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Brooks Doesn't Know Why Australian-Style Gun Control is Controversial

July 9th, 2022 10:22 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks is, in theory, supposed to be the conservative counterweight to Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart when the two join PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff every Friday to recap the week’s news, but in reality Brooks mostly ends up repeating liberal talking points. A case in point was Friday’s episode where he wondered…

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'Balanced' PBS SMEARS Parents' Rights Movement as QAnon Kook Fringe

April 23rd, 2022 7:10 AM

At the beginning of the PBS NewsHour is a subtle graphic with these words: “HONEST BALANCED TRUSTED.” There was nothing honest and nothing balanced on Friday night as our taxpayer-funded "newscast" smeared at least half the country who believe it’s inappropriate to teach kindergarteners sex-ed lessons as Q-Anon conspiracy kooks. It puts the BS in PBS.

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Hunter Who? PBS Condemns Saudi Investment in Kushner

April 16th, 2022 1:41 PM

PBS NewsHour has finally discovered allegations of corrupt behavior in the president’s family. No, not Hunter Biden, but former President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. On Friday’s show, host Judy Woodruff, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart all condemned Kushner’s “shameless” behavior both during the Trump…

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Capehart, Brooks: Republicans Put Jackson 'Through Hell' To Get on Fox

March 26th, 2022 1:49 PM

Columnists Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday for their weekly panel discussion to recap Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Together, the duo would accuse Republicans of putting her through hell so that they could get on Fox.

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Capehart Accuses GOP of 'Playing Games' Amid Putin WMD Threats

March 19th, 2022 11:21 AM

Math and logic were in short supply on the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour as Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart accused 31 Republican senators “playing games” with aid for Ukraine because they voted against a spending bill in which less than one percent of the money was for Ukrainian aid.

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Capehart on PBS: Ketanji Is 'Not Some Radical,' She's 'Mainstream'!

February 26th, 2022 7:32 AM

Naturally, the PBS NewsHour was delighted with President Biden's nomination of radical Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday night. David Brooks put her in the mainstream….of the Democrats. That might be correct, but the Democrats are far to the left! Jonathan Capehart then misquoted Brooks as saying she's "in the mainstream" of America.

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Capehart: Unnamed SCOTUS Pick Will Be 'More Brilliant' Than the Rest

January 30th, 2022 7:34 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was angry enough at his fellow panelist David Brooks that he claimed that President Biden's still-unknown Supreme Court nominee would probably be "more brilliant than the folks who have come in before her" because she had to overcome all the racism that defines America. 

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David Brooks: The GOP 'Has Slid Down the Toilet' on Voting Rights

January 1st, 2022 7:20 AM

On the last Friday night Week in Politics panel of 2021, the PBS NewsHour once again chose the topic that Democrats want to talk about right now: Voting rules. Once again, the Republicans are so horrible that New York Times columnist David Brooks -- the alleged moderate Republican-leaning regular of this group -- said the GOP is "a party that has slid down the toilet."

PBS Won't Discuss a David Brooks Column When It WHACKS the Left

October 30th, 2021 10:06 PM

The PBS NewsHour will spotlight New York Times columns by their panelist David Brooks when they love them -- like his promotional interview with President Biden, or his liberal-pleasing column "The G.O.P. Is Getting Even Worse: Trumpians are having a venomous panic attack." This did not happen this week, when Brooks wrote a column titled "The Self-Isolation of the American…

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Capehart: If Dems Lose in Virginia, 'Whiteness Is a Hell of a Drug'

October 30th, 2021 4:42 AM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, they lamented the close race for governor in Virginia in their weekly roundup, and Washington Post columnist and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart spat out that "white grievance" was to blame, and "whiteness is a hell of a drug." 

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Capehart Lies That CRT Is Taught NOWHERE to Children in U.S. Schools

October 23rd, 2021 9:39 AM

Liberals are still brazenly lying about this. On Friday's PBS NewsHour, panelist Jonathan Capehart insisted "Critical Race Theory is not taught in elementary schools, middle schools, or high schools anywhere in the United States. If it's taught at all, it is taught in law schools." They were closing out a Friday news roundup with talk about the Virginia governor's race, and Capehart…

$4 Trillion Reasons Why NYT’s David Brooks Is Insane on Dem Spending

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October 1st, 2021 7:45 PM

In the fantasy land of New York Times apostate conservative columnist David Brooks, the crazy Democrat spending agenda serves “moral and cultural purposes.” 

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PBS Pundits on STACKED 1/6 Panel: 'Right Call,' GOP's '90 Percent BS'

July 31st, 2021 9:24 AM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to let Republicans pick their own members for her Select Committee on the January 6 riot, making the panel look obviously stacked. But on the Week in Review segment of Friday's PBS NewsHour, this was an unfortunate kerfuffle that should be overlooked. David Brooks called any complaints about the stacking "90 percent BS."

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Capehart on PBS: Pelosi Is a 'Devout Catholic' and Constitution Lover

July 3rd, 2021 6:54 PM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff finished the week-in-review segment by asking Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the Democrats creating a select committee on the January 6 Capitol riot. Capehart took out a bucket of rhetorical sugar, insisting Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not just a "devout Catholic…