Perhaps responding to pressure from the Trump Administration threatening federal funding of PBS and NPR over their liberal slant, the PBS News Hour is beginning to pepper its guest list with the occasional conservative. But those guests don’t get the typical soft-soap treatment reserved for liberal activists (and almost never labeled as such) but instead receive a defensive, combative reception. Case in point: Thursday’s edition of the PBS News Hour featuring anti-woke activist Christopher Rufo, featured in PBS’s new “On Democracy” series.
Nawaz couldn’t help calling him “conservative activist” even in the friendly first question and from then on, she defended the elite universities from Rufo’s critiques.
Rufo fought back against Nawaz’s defensive premise.
Her penultimate question was the worst, equating the breakup of pro-Hamas encampments — which often featured…
