Since Oct. 1, PBS isn't taxpayer-funded, but the radical leftist spirit of PBS remains unchanged. When it comes to transgenderism, for example, the discussion cannot have two sides. In a 2023 study of seven months of the "PBS News Hour," the libertine left drew 90% of the airtime.
It was even worse for in-studio guests. It was 19 to one -- and the one unsolicited utterance that opposed the left-wing position came from gay tennis star Billie Jean King, who dared to suggest that men shouldn't compete in women's sports once it came to advanced competitions like the Olympics.
On Nov. 24, the "News Hour" guest was Alejandra Caraballo, a trans woman who works at Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic. Caraballo exemplifies the acidulous leftist vitriol on Bluesky, the leftist alternative to Twitter. Caraballo posted this on June 18, after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-denying mutilations for children:
"I honestly don't care anymore if this country destroys itself and burns down to the ground. The current form of the United States is incompatible with democracy or human rights. It no longer has any legitimacy to govern and I'll dance on its grave. Let something better rise from the ashes."
This is the guest PBS picked -- the ones currently pretending to love America with Ken Burns bringing the DEI spirit to "The American Revolution." Interviewer William Brangham waited until the last question to posit: "You have faced your own share of criticism for some of the things you have written on social media. Where do you see the boundaries in terms of how to have this debate, especially as it pertains to people who are near and dear to you?"
There were no quotes on screen of her many wild swings on Bluesky, like this new one on the Elissa Slotkin "illegal orders" video: "Hot take but the president openly calling for the murder of his political opposition should be grounds for immediate impeachment and removal for office (sic)."
Caraballo claimed this is systemic: "I think about this a lot in terms of the incentives of social media and how it can incentivize a certain style of engagement. But I think, in general, one of the things I have always tried to say and repeat, the quote is, 'be brutal to systems, kind to people.'"
But when it comes to opponents in the trans debate, from Riley Gaines to Bari Weiss, there's no kindness from Caraballo.
Before that, Brangham's most challenging question was this: "Back during the election, political analysts point to that notorious (notorious?!) set of ads that the president ran against Kamala Harris, she's for they/them, he's for you, as both being divisive and effective as an ad campaign. And, as you know, there are polls that show that somewhere around half of Americans approve of what the president is doing vis-a-vis trans people. How do you explain that? How does that sit with you?"
Caraballo found that "incredibly troubling," and underlined that Republicans running in off-year races pushed the trans/sports issues and lost, like in Virginia, where Winsome Earle-Sears spent a lot of money on "some extremely heinous anti-trans ads." Heinous?!
What Caraballo demonstrates is that radical trans activists don't believe in democracy. They want an autocracy where no one can oppose their dictates. It's not my way or the highway -- it's my way or "burn America down to the ground." This is the kind of wacko that PBS is platforming. They also don't believe in democracy, or they would allow someone on their show to oppose this hate-engulfed male.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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