Both the PBS News Hour and PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable Washington Week in Review broke out their extreme-right label tricks for the new 199th Congress and Rep. Mike Johnson narrowly winning the vote to become Speaker of the House. Washington Week moderator and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (along with contributors Leigh Ann Caldwell and David Ignatius of The Washington Post) weren’t content to talk about the “right.” It had to be the “far right” or “extreme right.”
Even when the panel is giving Trump a bit of backhanded credit, they can’t help but portray Republicans negatively.
Later Ignatius’s Post colleague Leigh Ann Caldwell mentioned “there’s three dozen members in the far-right Freedom Caucus” that could potentially oppose Speaker Johnson.
There was still more high-octane labeling to come.
The Friday News Hour reported in similar slanted fashion
