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As I noted earlier this week, every once in a while the masks completely slip off and supposedly objective journalists accidentally (and in some cases deliberately) reveal in no uncertain terms what their political colors are to their readers and viewers.

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor does this with regularity. She’s been repeatedly called out for her gotcha-style liberally biased “reporting” and performance journalism during White House press briefings, as well as for flat out altering quotes from President Trump to deliberately make it look like he said something he didn’t.

On Thursday, however, Alcindor upped her “I’m biased and I don’t give a d*mn who knows it” game by tweeting out a defense of 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones that sounded like it could have been written by Hannah-Jones herself.

She started off by pointing out that President Trump planned to “attack 1619” in a speech:

Pres Trump gearing up to attack 1619 in his speech today. He is expected to say, “Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda—an ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together.”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 17, 2020

In her next tweet is where Alcindor got defensive, declaring Hannah-Jones a “national tresure” and proclaiming that “we should all be grateful” for her work:

An important note that as President Trump gears up to attack the 1619 project, @nhannahjones is a national treasure who put in context how America came to be, the black enslaved people it exploited and the way forward. We should all be grateful for the 1619 Project.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 17, 2020

She claimed after the speech, without evidence, that the “1619 project … aims to educate the nation with facts” (bolded emphasis added):

Trump just announced he will soon be signing an executive order establishing a "national commission to promote patriotic education" called the "1776 Commission."

It is unclear what that means but he has been trashing the 1619 project which aims to educate the nation with facts.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 17, 2020

“With facts”? Really? I don’t think so.

As was correctly pointed out by others, the 1619 Project has been roundly criticized and in some cases discredited by respected historians as being a deeply flawed body of work on American history:

An important note that the 1619 Project has been torn to pieces by historians — from minor details to the project's entire thesis.https://t.co/WQHqtRtYWO

And fact-checkers for the project have come out publicly that they were ignored. https://t.co/rQjN67kxBI https://t.co/t3jCvNWLbO

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 17, 2020

The 1619 Project has been widely criticized by dozens of historians for its inaccuracies. We should bar any federal funding for schools that teach it.

Is this journalism or activism? https://t.co/1sFV1vu42n

— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) September 17, 2020

Bizarrely, Hannah-Jones was awarded a Pulitzer prize in May despite the many historical inaccuracies in her work on how the basis for the American Revolution was allegedly about preserving slavery.

In any event, reminders that PBS is partially funded with tax dollars and calls to “defund PBS” accordingly rang out anew after Alcindor’s decidedly non-objective declaration about Hannah-Jones:

PBS reporter praising someone who encouraged violent riots with revisionist history. taxpayer dollars hard at work. https://t.co/qq3TOBZ3Uo

— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) September 17, 2020

Yamiche Alcindor (D-PBS) Thank you for making it abundantly clear that it’s past time to defund PBS.

— Daniel Walsh (@Dan_E_Walsh) September 17, 2020

We need to defund PBS! Why are our tax dollars used to promote the destruction of our culture and country?

— MmeMaximillia (@MmeMaximillia) September 18, 2020

Radical 1619 leftist "is a national treasure," said the supposedly objective PBS "journalist." https://t.co/IugCTzvfeT

— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) September 17, 2020

As my RedState colleague Bonchie reported in June, Alcindor has a book in the works, which explains quite a bit.

To find out more about the “1776 Commission” Trump announced yesterday, click here.

Flashback –>> Watch: PBS Journo Yamiche Tries to Cancel Surgeon General With Wokeness Lecture but He Was Not Having It