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misanthrope

(8,799 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:36 PM May 23

The producers of PBS' Washington Week should be ashamed

In a week where the now openly racist Trump administration ambushed the South African delegation in the Oval Office with a torrent of falsehoods and accusations, where Trump held a pay-for-play event in direct defiance of the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, where Trump basically declared de facto war on Harvard University, and where the House snuck through a massive bill that will defang federal courts, gut social services (including Medicare), and conduct "the largest transfer of wealth from the lower classes to the upper five percent in the history of the nation," what did PBS's show choose to devote their entire half-hour to?

It was celebrity journalists Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper furthering their ego-ballooning gossip about Joe Biden's fitness for office in 2023 and 2024.

Is the topic worthy of study for historical sake? Yes. Does it merit the entirety of a show as the nation continues its plummet into autocracy and insolvency? Not in the slightest.

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misanthrope

(8,799 posts)
2. I was disgusted.
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:59 PM
May 23

The moment Tapper openly stated that he and moderator Jeffrey Goldberg were friends, the taping should have stopped and another moderator contacted to be brought in.

BurnDoubt

(553 posts)
4. Perhaps they might consider a piece on how the media is being manipulated...
Sat May 24, 2025, 12:47 AM
May 24

by intimidation and weaponized government as our country descends into authoritarian hell.
This is Clearly a Conspiracy against the People of the USA.

Rhiannon12866

(235,171 posts)
6. I normally post it on Fridays, but when I saw the subject and the guests, I certainly decided against posting it.
Sat May 24, 2025, 12:54 AM
May 24

My grandfather, a lifelong Democrat, used to watch it every week. WTF?!

Irish_Dem

(70,219 posts)
10. Joe Biden brought us back from Covid and produced the best economy in the world.
Sat May 24, 2025, 05:39 AM
May 24

Trump is destroying that economy and taking a wrecking ball to the country.

But let's focus on Biden who is NOT IN OFFICE NOW.

Scrivener7

(55,834 posts)
11. Thanks for the heads up. CONTACT THEM. I just told them that, though
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
May 24

I'm sure my monthly contribution to PBS is a drop in their bucket, I promise it will be ended if I see Jake Tapper on a PBS news show again.

Here's their email: contactww@weta.org

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