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PBS’s most biased reporter, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, showed still more excitement about the fledgling Kamala Harris campaign at a rally in Atlanta, on Tuesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour.  Anchor Geoff Bennett’s pumped up Democratic optimism in red-leaning Georgia: Vice president Kamala Harris campaigns in Georgia, a state that's now even more hotly contested than…
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PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, whose reporting down the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election has so far been wretchedly partisan, was at it again on Friday’s edition, painting a potential second Trump Administration as a threat to the lives of transgenders, and even chiding the Biden Administration for suggesting transgender surgery on minors should be…
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It was the best of worlds for Democrats on Friday’s Washington Week in Review, as the entire panel of liberal journalists defended vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris from (let’s say it altogether) racist and sexist attacks, while ridiculing the debut of Donald Trump’s own VP pick, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg was joined by Peter Baker of The…
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White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez has been extremely protective of fledgling Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and Thursday evening’s PBS News Hour opened with ten minutes of Barron-Lopez celebrating Harris and bashing her Republican critics as racist. She aired Donald Trump’s counter-argument from a campaign rally (“Trump portrayed Harris as a liberal extremist”), then instantly (…
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Who did Amanpour & Co. invite on to discuss the supposed Christian nationalism rampant within the feared, loathed, seldom read “extremist” document, Project 2025 was the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.  Host Bianna Golodryga of the political talk show (whose episodes run on tax-funded PBS after first airing on CNN…
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Monday’s Amanpour & Co., which airs on tax-funded PBS, took advantage of Joe Biden abdicating his re-election campaign to do some Biden-buffing courtesy of Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal lawyer, followed by some Trump-trashing from Sarah Longwell, the “Republican” Never-Trumper, and apparent Kamala Harris booster. Journalist Walter Isaacson’s interview with Bauer was more of a tribute to the…
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After President Biden announced he would not run for re-election (but would continue to serve as president) political reporter Domenico Montanaro of National Public Radio sounded very optimistic about the prospects of Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (though there’s still some ways to go). Montanaro managed to have it both ways, claiming that whether…
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The first post-Republican Convention episode of PBS’s journalistic political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic spent a long time emphasizing the travails of the Democrats over the mental state of President Joe Biden, with the party’s own convention looming and decisions to be made. But one panelist saw the bright side in the Democratic meltdown. McKay Coppins, The Atlantic: This is, I…
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PBS’s coverage of Night Four of the Republican National Convention again featured the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart holding up the liberal end of the political analysis. (David Brooks of the New York Times was the ostensible conservative on the panel, but they often agreed with each other.) Capehart spent most of the four nights of the convention whining that the speakers weren’t…
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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 legal woes in…