On Wednesday’s PBS News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tried emotional blackmail to stop spending cuts – any kind of spending cut – in an interview with Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), chairman of the House Budget Committee.
After challenging Arrington on Medicaid spending in the just-passed House GOP budget framework (“Is it possible for you to guarantee that none of the 70 million people who rely on Medicaid are going to have their benefits cut? Can you make that guarantee?”) Nawaz tried to personalize the argument by putting Arrington on the spot regarding potential federal job loss in his district, resulting in these repetitive exchanges, in which Nawaz asked the same question no less than five times.
Arrington tried to take a broader view of government fraud and waste, but Nawaz kept twisting the knife.
On the same subject that same night, PBS’s White House reporter Laura…
