On Friday night, both NPR and PBS rolled out their red carpets for South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn to talk about the Democrat presidential primary season officially beginning in his state — NPR offered eight minutes, PBS seven. Nowhere in those 15 minutes did either the hosts or the guest mention that President Biden had any primary opposition. The names Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson were completely absent.
So when Biden won the primary with 96 percent, one reason for that is dramatic bias by omission. Phillips drew 19.6 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, but it spurred nothing.
Many voters can’t believe were inevitably slipping back to a Trump vs. Biden rematch — but the “public broadcasters” are happy to ignore Biden’s primary opponents. Nobody laughed when Clyburn boldly proclaimed Biden’s general election appeal was “freedom and…
