On the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) requested PBS boss Paula Kerger: “Would you consider that PBS is truthful and goal and nonpartisan?” She stated “sure.”
Fallon then famous that on Washington Week with The Atlantic in 2023, host and Atlantic journal editor Jeffrey Goldberg pronounced President Biden as “mentally fairly acute.” Fallon requested Kerger if there have been “any dissenting opinions” on that episode. Kerger professed ignorance. He assured her there was not. So when Biden failed on the talk stage in 2024, Fallon stated the world came upon who was mendacity: “The Democrats, Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS.”
Hours after this listening to, PBS Information Hour placed on Jeffrey Goldberg for nearly seven unchallenged minutes to toot his personal horn for having the fortune of Staff Trump messing up and together with him in a chat on the non-public encrypted app Sign as officers mentioned bombing the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
However that section was nothing in comparison with two nights later, when Goldberg hosted a really particular self-glorifying 30-minute episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic. As typical, his supporting solid was unanimously left-wing Democrat journalists: the husband-and-wife crew of New York Instances reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker author Susan Glasser, the very biased PBS White Home reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and Shane Harris of….The Atlantic. No dissenting opinions on Goldberg’s heroic journalistic stance. Tremendous cozy.
Goldberg may mock the Trump crew’s “enthusiastic efforts to deflect…primarily by calling me disagreeable names.” You poor factor!
The crew then echoed one another that this Signalgate scandal was monumental and unprecedented, and naturally, as Goldberg stated, “a dumb mistake.” Sure, don’t embrace an editor whose journal endorsed Trump’s opponents within the final three election cycles. That’s profoundly dumb.
You could possibly inform you have been observing a liberal bubble when the identify “Biden” by no means got here up, so no point out of Staff Biden utilizing Sign on their telephones earlier than Trump did. Nobody would confuse a profitable strike on the Houthis with Biden’s lethal Afghan withdrawal fiasco.
After the energetic declare that the main points of this dialog should be thought of “categorized data” – to dissent from that is “farcical” – they turned to lashing the Trump crew for pushing again on the press. They have been purported to apologize sheepishly, and the story would vanish inside 48 hours. Assuming there can be a quick episode in anti-Trump bias is “farcical.”
An apology to Trump supporters can be so as. Nevertheless it must be acknowledged that PBS and Staff Goldberg are out to destroy Trump and empower the Democrats. They aren’t going to go gently away after an “oops” message.
Internet hosting his PBS present, Jeffrey Goldberg summarized his Signalgate journo heroism towards bullying Trump: “I don’t need to be self-righteous or something [!], however you probably have the reality and also you’re aligned with the reality…finally, the voters, the residents will acknowledge actuality.” pic.twitter.com/Vpx3cnjcII
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 2, 2025
PBS’s Barron-Lopez proclaimed Trump’s folks base their actions on lies, and try to discredit tales attacking them. She cued up Goldberg: “Do you assume there’s a lesson for the press?”
Goldberg broke out the previous “simply proceed to do your job” line, once we know he feels his job is to destroy Trump. “It’s a must to be keen to be intimidated with the intention to have an efficient bully, proper?” Then he stated “I don’t need to be self-righteous or something [heaven forbid!], however you probably have the reality and also you’re aligned with the reality…finally, the voters, the residents will acknowledge actuality.”
This leaves the impression: “And vote for Democrats subsequent time.”
That is the truth of what PBS is – an smug, unanimous left-wing channel. For Paula Kerger to misinform Pat Fallon and say they’re goal and nonpartisan oozes contempt for the general public who funds their partisan propaganda.
