NPR White Home correspondent Tamara Keith joined the conga line of journalists protesting President Trump for taking the press-pool and press-credential powers away from the White Home Correspondents Affiliation. As a former WHCA president, Keith tweeted: “An unbiased press makes our leaders extra accountable and our nation stronger.”
That sounds good. However we don’t have an unbiased press, particularly in “public” broadcasting. Tamara Keith just isn’t an unbiased reporter. NPR and PBS each depend on her to function as a state-funded propagandist — befitting a graduate from Berkeley.
We might fill a chapter of a e-book on Democrat-favoring White Home reporters simply unspooling the bias of Tamara Keith. However let’s begin with one of many doozies. On June 6, 2016, Keith spoke to Hillary Clinton when she received her celebration’s presidential nomination. This made our Worst of 2016 checklist.
“Final night time once you took stage in Sacramento, there was a lady standing subsequent to me who was completely sobbing. And he or she mentioned, you realize, ‘It’s time. It’s previous time.’ And also you see the ladies — you see folks right here and other people simply come as much as you and so they get tears of their eyes. Do you’re feeling — do you’re feeling the load of what this implies for folks?”
Hillary mentioned, “I do. I do.”
Identical to Joe Biden in 2020, Hillary Clinton was very restricted in speaking to reporters, in contrast to the broad entry granted by her opponent Donald Trump. The “unbiased” reporters didn’t protest that, and when Keith had a uncommon alternative to problem her with an “unbiased” query, she threw her a moist kiss of a query about sobbing feminists.
In reality, Keith defended Hillary avoiding the press. She agreed that was sensible. On CNN’s Dependable Sources on August 21, 2016, Keith famous that it had been 260 days since Clinton has accomplished a correct press convention exterior of reporter gaggles and scrums at her occasions. And host Brian Stelter rationalized it saying, “There’s clearly political technique right here about why she’s not giving a press convention. She’s attempting to take a seat on right here lead, proper?”
Keith agreed: “Completely! I imply, why would she give a press convention? I imply, from a purely strategic standpoint.”
Quick-forward to this: after he dropped out final yr, President Biden not often spoke to the press. When Keith was granted a query on October 4, 2024, she threw one other softball. “The election is a month away. One, I would prefer to understand how you feel about how this election goes? After which, additionally, do you’ve confidence that it will likely be a free and honest election, after which it will likely be peaceable?” Then she adopted up with one other trace at a violent election: “Are you making any preparations, getting safety briefings associated to home safety?”
Keith performed White Home Helper on Biden’s decline. On February 9, 2024, when particular counsel Robert Hur drew the fury of the so-called “unbiased” press for asserting he wouldn’t indict Biden for stealing labeled paperwork as a result of he wouldn’t come throughout as mentally match, Keith requested Biden spokesman Ian Sams: “How involved is the President and the group right here that the, quote, ‘gratuitous’ [Hur] feedback are going to wreck him, injury public notion of him?” It seemed like state-run radio.
Keith seems as a pundit on the PBS Information Hour on Monday nights, and PBS relied on her all through the Biden years to repeat the Biden line for his or her liberal viewers, which didn’t sound “unbiased” in any respect. A typical one got here on March 1, 2024.
GEOFF BENNETT: Nicely, meantime, the Biden marketing campaign is trying to lock within the picture that President Biden projected at that State of the Union handle final week. This is a brand new advert from his marketing campaign launched over the weekend.
JOE BIDEN: Look, I am not a younger man. That is no secret. However here is the deal. I perceive the best way to get issues accomplished for the American folks.
BENNETT: So stroll us by the brand new technique right here, Tam.
KEITH: If you cannot change it and you may’t conceal from it, why not run straight into it headlong? And that is precisely what they’re doing with the age situation.
This is one other, “spin for Biden, Tam” second on November 28, 2023. Bennett requested, “Tam, how does the White Home see it?…President Biden, the White Home, I am instructed, feels that he would not all the time get the credit score for doing the work, as a result of he would not do the work in a means that is correctly politically theatrical.” Keith defined: Biden “very a lot doesn’t make a public present of issues till after it is accomplished. After which he tries to say credit score, like with all of his financial accomplishments. After which he cannot get the credit score.”
Biden’s “financial accomplishments”? Like large inflation? Extra state-run radio.
On PBS @NewsHour, they requested NPR’s Tamara Keith why Biden would not get sufficient credit score. Biden “very a lot doesn’t make a public present of issues till after it is accomplished. After which he tries to say credit score, like with all of his financial accomplishments. After which he cannot get the credit score.” pic.twitter.com/RcE2pbWO7j
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) November 29, 2023
Keith is not this supportive in the case of the Republicans, as you would possibly anticipate. On October 24, 2023, Keith painted Republicans as arsonists: “What’s occurring within the Home is a mirrored image of a broader divide within the Republican Get together, the place there’s perhaps like 20 % or 30 % of Republicans who do not wish to burn all of it down and who’ve discomfort with Trump… there actually is that this divide between Republicans who notice that governing requires some bipartisan compromise simply due to the sheer math, and those who do not care.” (I cited this after I testified earlier than Congress on NPR’s bias final Could.)
Now put that insult subsequent to remarks from when Keith was WHCA president. She created unintentional comedy in her 2023 speech on the White Home Correspondents Dinner. It’s a “difficult time for our nation,” she proclaimed. “Individuals are selecting their information partly primarily based on what they wish to hear. And this makes us all weak to conspiracy theories, to seeing the worst in our fellow residents, to shedding sight of our shared humanity.”
Sure. Liberals select NPR as a result of it is what they wish to hear. They need President Trump described in dehumanizing phrases as a monster. Like this one from Keith:
DEHUMANIZING! On the PBS @NewsHour, NPR reporter Tamara Keith cites (liberal) historian to outline Biden in relation to beating Trump: “Proper now, if you happen to ask, he was the dragon slayer, as one historian instructed me, however then he is also the person who let the dragon again in.” pic.twitter.com/HjyehNKnrb
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 31, 2024
