Taxpayer-supported PBS kept its News Hour crew on deck for Thursday night’s first (and only?) Trump-Biden debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle, airing on CNN and simulcast on PBS. While other liberal networks were loaded with panic, PBS’s White House reporter stuck to repeating the desperate campaign talking points.
While Biden’s doddering, decrepit performance couldn’t be ignored (so much for recent PBS-aired claims that clips of Biden’s decline were “edited“) Laura Barron-Lopez launched PBS’s 17-minute post-debate discussion by spinning hard for Biden.
Barron-Lopez allowed, very mildly, that “The Democrats that I’ve been in contact with were not necessarily happy with the president’s performance [oh really now?]….they felt as though he got a bit stronger as the night went on, a bit more clear, drew more contrasts as the night…
