People seem to assume that because PBS is dry and somewhat boring, that must also mean it’s also more serious than other news channels. But the truth is, the commentary on shows like NewsHour is as far in crazy left-wing territory as most prime time MSNBC shows, and it’s been this way since at least the 1990s.
Back in 2017 when MSNBC’s Joy Reid implied that then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was to blame for his own attempted assassination, conservatives were disgusted, of course, but we weren’t exactly surprised. That’s just MSNBC, we thought. There’s something significantly more alarming about — for example — the 1994 incident in which columnist Julianne Malveaux said on PBS’s To the Contrary: “I hope [Clarence Thomas’s] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter, and he dies early, like so many black men do, of heart…
