The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the parent organization of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), is revered if not worshipped by more than a few of my liberal friends.

Yes, I have liberal friends.

Alas, for the left, their hallowed media of record has been taking it on the beyond-hypocritical chin over the last few months — every bit of it deserved. 

I'm going to bury the lede intentionally and first provide a bit of background. 

As RedState reported on February 21, PBS enthusiastically promoted a "scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists [that] buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup..." 

Over at NPR, as we reported on April 9, a 25-year veteran of the outlet came forward to provide detailed inside information about the deep biases at the outlet.

Uri Berliner, who appears to be still employed there, released a self-penned article on Tuesday going through the extreme bias and politicized censorship that has destroyed the "news" outlet's credibility over the last several years. 

Berliner announced his resignation from NPR on April 17.

I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.

As we reported on April 18, NPR CEO Katherine Maher, exposed by Berliner, is this far left: [emphasis, mine]

Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.

Yeah, hell, never let the truth get in the way of NPR or PBS "finding common ground." 

NPR’s far-left CEO Katherine Maher: "Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done." pic.twitter.com/yuFCKBjzjT

— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) April 17, 2024

Common ground with whom, or what? Factions within the Democrat Party, of course. These "news" outlets have zero interest in finding common ground with conservatives.

That pretty much catches us up, so on to the story at hand.

In this week's "PBS NewsHour" weekly news recap segment on Friday, insufferable New York Times columnist David Brooks and equally insufferable Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart teamed up with host William Brangham to declare that the “far-right” is wreaking havoc in the Republican Party because of its (the "far-right") opposition to Ukraine aid.

Fair enough, for argument's sake — but here's the hypocritical deal.

Not only did the trio not label the far-left as the "far-left," including the pro-Palestinian crowd, for opposing U.S. aid to Israel; but they also encouraged the leftists to continue protesting.  

Brangham kicked off the festivities: 

... Democrats helped Speaker Johnson get a foreign aid package over a key hurdle, but he still faces backlash from far-right members in his own conference. ... [S]ome off-the-record scuttlebutt that Johnson was offered some — if you bring these, we will protect you if it comes to that. Do you think that will actually materialize?

Brooks responded:

It absolutely should, because when Johnson got the speakership, he had to make concessions to the further right. He had to put some of those people on the Rules Committee, which determines what comes up for a vote.

And so if I'm a Democrat, I'm thinking, well, the Republicans still do have the majority. So if it's not going to be Johnson, it's going to be somebody else. And it's going to be somebody else who makes even more concessions to the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world, and that will make my life worse as a Democrat.

And so I think it's very much in the Democrats interest to say, Johnson's our best shot right now at having a reasonable Congress for the rest of the rest of this year. I'm looking at Chip Roy, who's on the Rules Committee, who voted against the Ukraine aid and who's one of the — I would say, one of the smartest people in House, and — but certainly on that far-right faction, one of the smartest people, I'm looking to see which way he goes.

I won't get into the Marjorie Taylor Greene argument, but I will say this: The Republican Party, historically, has had a hard time governing when holding a slim majority — and that applies to both chambers of Congress.

Next up, Capehart eagerly donned his cheerleader uniform for the leftist protesters against Israeli aid.

But I would say to the people who are protesting [pro-Hamas] and the young people who are upset, and all of the folks who are upset at the president and the administration for what they're doing, I keep thinking about the thing that President Obama used to say to criminal justice activists and others who were put — who were really upset with him for not doing lots — more things on criminal justice or racial issues.

And he would say to them, “I need you to keep protesting on the outside because that puts pressure on me on the inside to get something done” and I think that is what's happening.

Brangham lapped it up: "Which is famously what LBJ was being told by MLK, which is that he told him, keep the fire under my feet, and thus I will deliver for you."

Yep, totally unbiased, and brought to you by the "common ground-seeking" folks of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting--without allowing reverence for truth to become a distraction, that is.