One easy way to prove that PBS and NPR are like taxpayer-funded MSNBC is their promotion of radical ranter Elie Mystal of The Nation magazine. On Amanpour & Co. on Friday, Hari Sreenivasan tossed softballs at Mystal for 17 minutes over his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.
On March 24, NPR’s Fresh Air platformed his rage for 36 minutes. Tonya Mosley facilitated the rage: “So your feelings that everything before 1965 is kind of in direct opposition to what America is most proud of. Can you explain that argument a little bit more?“
On PBS (as well as CNN International), Sreenivasan began with his overall thesis that all laws passed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be considered null and void since they were passed under American “apartheid.” On PBS, they also championed his view that the concept of illegal immigration is…
