PBS’s vice presidential debate favoritism began beforehand, in a political roundtable on Tuesday evening’s PBS News Hour in which PBS’s White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez praising Democratic candidate Gov. Tim Walz.
Predictably, Barron-Lopez embraced pro-Democratic journalistic “fact-checking” and defended the partisan fact-checking at last month’s ABC presidential debate, claiming “ABC’s way of doing it was a bit more beneficial to the American public.” She also fiercely defended CBS violating its own debate rules by breaking in twice last night to fact-check Vance.