PBS, backed by your tax dollars, hosted the leader of a group that compares conservatives to the KKK, and she used the opportunity to demonize President-elect Donald Trump. Then PBS hosted one of her close allies who suggested that America failing to elect Vice President Kamala Harris emboldens misogyny.
The two segments make a rather eloquent case against continued public funding for PBS.
In late November, PBS reporter Stephanie Sy interviewed Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, about a series of racist text messages under investigation by the FBI. Sy noted that “we have no clearer sense of who sent” the text messages, but Huang—whose organization keeps mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—immediately connected the text messages to “hate groups” and Trump’s…
