Self-reflection was absent as the cast of characters that made up Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour attacked President Donald Trump’s executive order that cut off their taxpayer money. From putting their heads in the sand on their liberal bias, to trying to make themselves free speech martyrs, Friday’s show by itself showed by Trump’s move was the correct one.
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Nawaz then asked the same question of a third person, this time Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, “Jonathan, what do you make of the president's moves at this time, not just about PBS? This is not just about us. It's part of a larger campaign here.”
Capehart began with an incorrect reading of the First Amendment, “But I think what the president is doing, it is a fundamental attack on our Constitution, on the foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember, there is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution, and it is the free press. It is the press.”
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