PBS NewsHour anchor Geoff Bennett awarded six minutes of book publicity to liberal author Joshua Green, and his new book The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle For a New American Politics. Bennett was right about one thing: the Democrats have a “far left.”
Bennett: Between the House GOP’s government funding fight and former President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, much has been made of the far right’s strong sway over the GOP and its agenda. But what doesn’t get nearly as much attention is the far left’s influence in the Democratic Party….
But unlike myriad pieces on the dangers of the “far right” that have aired for years on the tax-funded channel PBS, the Green interview that aired Tuesday evening skipped controversies and any sense of danger posed by radical left politicians in…