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On Wednesday's PBS NewsHour, viewers received a bucket of happy talk about medication abortions from Dr. Jennifer Villavicencio. Twice, she insisted the use of mifepristone was "extraordinarily safe" -- but it's not safe for the unborn baby, who is expelled from the mother and killed.
One of the silliest myths in TV newscasting is that objectivity is still a lodestar. As PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff was wrapping up her last show in the anchor chair on Friday, pundits David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart both pretended Woodruff exemplified neutrality. Do they think Republicans never watch this show?
John Yang's report on PBS NewsHour offered one perfunctory soundbite from Benjamin Netanyahu, followed by a parade of nasty critics.
On Thursday's Deadline White House, Nicolle Wallace suggested she was interested in the "truth" about domestic terrorism and January 6, but MSNBC analyst Donell Harvin uncorked a wild claim that somehow, the national media were "ignoring" violent right-wing extremists like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph since the 1990s. That is completely false, but this is MSNBC, so no one questioned it.
NBC Today co-hosts Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker fell all over themselves on Wednesday promoting PBS star Ken Burns and his latest $75 coffee-table book of photographs. Who needs to pay for infomercials when NBC gives them to PBS stars for free?
On Friday, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff asked their regular pundits David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart who should be on Santa's Naughty List and Nice List. Brooks suggested a model train set for "long-suffering, neglected" White House chief of staff Ron Klain, since "The White House has had a good year." Capehart put voters on the Nice list for keeping the GOP red wave to a trickle.
On Wednesday night's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, the host and NBC historian Michael Beschloss ripped Republicans for failing to show up or failing to clap.
Beschloss would never demand that Democrats attend a Trump speech, or demand that they give him regular standing ovations.
On Friday's Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, substitute host Ali Velshi brought on leftist Roger McNamee, who came rushing to the defense of NBC "disinformation" reporter Ben Collins, comparing his work to journalists exposing Watergate and the Pentagon Papers.
In just the latest evidence that the PBS NewsHour has a Friday night panel of liberal echoes, their pundits Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks completely agreed that Democrats should stop being fussy and back "successful" President Biden for a second term in 2024.
On Monday's CBS Mornings, they gushed over Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, who's made a new documentary celebrating her mother. She complained "there’s a whole political-industrial complex that went and turned my last name into a curse word.” She claimed all this “misogyny” has been unfair to her mother, who thinks of politics as a “noble calling.”