At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger: “Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?” She said “yes.”
Fallon then noted that on Washington Week with The Atlantic in 2023, host and Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg pronounced President Biden as “mentally quite acute.” Fallon asked Kerger if there were “any dissenting opinions” on that episode. Kerger professed ignorance. He assured her there was not. So when Biden failed on the debate stage in 2024, Fallon said the world found out who was lying: “The Democrats, Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS.”
Hours after this hearing, PBS News Hour put on Jeffrey Goldberg for almost seven unchallenged minutes to toot his own horn for having the fortune of Team Trump messing up and including him in a chat…