PBS News anchors and reporters have brought the soft soap for sob-story interviews for people losing their jobs thanks to Trump executive orders and Musk-driven budget cuts, without any ideological labels attached to their designated victims (see: transgender Navy Pilot Emily Shilling). Yet the rare conservative who appears on the News Hour is almost guaranteed to get smacked with at least on warning label (see: former Trump official Chad Wolf).
So no surprise that it was a barn-burner of an “On Democracy” interview that aired Thursday evening between co-anchor Amna Nawaz and Daily Wire host and conservative activist Michael Knowles, with Nawaz coming loaded for bear to berate Knowles. No soft soap here. She was especially ruthless and unreasonable in challenging something Knowles said about transgenderism at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering from…