{"id":2414642,"date":"2025-03-24T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-all-tds-on-pbs-as-centrist-calls-trump-an-extortionist-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:45:58","slug":"liberal-media-scream-all-tds-on-pbs-as-centrist-calls-trump-an-extortionist-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-all-tds-on-pbs-as-centrist-calls-trump-an-extortionist-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an \u2018extortionist\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-media-scream-all-tds-on-pbs-as-centrist-calls-trump-an-extortionist-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2414642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses recent criticisms directed at PBS, notably from conservative voices, who argue that the network displays a bias against President Donald Trump. This week&#8217;s installment of the &#8220;Liberal Media Scream&#8221; highlights comments made on PBS News Hour by centrist commentator David Brooks, who referred to Trump as an &#8220;extortionist&#8221; for allegedly using his influence to force compliance from various entities, such as the Paul Weiss legal firm. The piece suggests that segments on PBS tend to feature guests who are critical of the trump administration, prompting calls for the end of public funding for what critics perceive as political bias. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">article underscores broader concerns<\/a> about the integrity of democratic institutions in the face of perceived presidential overreach and the compromises made by universities and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/royals-getting-lawyered-up-for-potential-libelous-attacks-from-harrys-tell-all-memoir-report\/\" title=\"Royals \u2018Getting Lawyered Up\u2019 For Potential Libelous Attacks From Harry\u2019s \u2018Tell-All\u2019 Memoir: Report\">legal firms<\/a> under pressure from the administration. it emphasizes the ongoing ideological divides in media representation and public discourse related to trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an &lsquo;extortionist&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2073396\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>This week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3350068\/liberal-media-scream-nbc-urges-harsher-trump-hate-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Liberal Media Scream<\/a> provides the latest fodder for conservatives calling for an end to taxpayer support of public TV because of its anti-Right bias and disdain for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In focus is the nightly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3353688\/taxpayer-funding-media-very-bad-idea-c-span-founder-brian-lamb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">PBS News Hour<\/a> program that regularly features guests critical of Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3356559\/debt-ceiling-x-date-hits-as-soon-as-mid-july\/\">Debt ceiling &lsquo;X date&rsquo; hits as soon as mid-July<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3356082\/white-house-report-card-two-months-in-trump-is-still-on-top\/\">White House Report Card: Two months in, Trump is still on top<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3355661\/trump-gop-approvals-tick-higher-as-voters-ignore-dc-turmoil\/\">Trump, GOP approvals tick higher as voters ignore DC turmoil<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">For our example, it wasn&rsquo;t the liberal on the show rapping Trump but the resident centrist,<em>&nbsp;New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;columnist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/david-brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Brooks,<\/a>&nbsp;who called the president an &ldquo;extortionist&rdquo; and &ldquo;bully&rdquo; for using his powers to get countries, companies, and people to do what he wa<\/span>nts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People call Trump a transactional politician, but he&rsquo;s an extortionist. That&rsquo;s actually a difference. There&rsquo;s &mdash; a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want,&rdquo; said Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>At issue was an earlier move by the White House to withdraw the security clearance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3354891\/trump-order-paul-weiss-deal-law-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Paul Weiss legal firm<\/a>, which is close to Democrats. The firm agreed to do $40 million worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-grift-that-keeps-on-grifting\/\" title=\"The Grift That Keeps on Grifting\">pro bono work<\/a> for causes favored by the White House to win back the clearance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PBS Panel: &lsquo;Our Democracy Is Teetering&rsquo; Because Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;An Extortionist&rsquo;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kE47GlpXhzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From Friday&rsquo;s <em>PBS News Hour:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOST AMNA NAWAZ:<\/strong> <em>We saw President Trump going after institutions, including Big Law, right, including universities, as you mentioned, where many of these guys went to school. And this week, we saw two big institutions take steps to comply with the demands of the Trump administration. We saw Paul Weiss agree to a settlement, essentially, that says they&rsquo;re going to provide $40 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-religious-attacks-on-jews-could-come-to-your-house-of-worship-next\/\" title=\"Anti-Religious Attacks On Jews Could Come To Your House Of Worship Next\">pro bono legal services<\/a>. Columbia University agreed to a list of demands so they don&rsquo;t lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. Jonathan, what does this moment, these steps from these institutions say to you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JONATHAN CAPEHART:<\/strong> <em>It says to me that our democracy is teetering. And I&rsquo;ll focus on Perkins &mdash; I&rsquo;m sorry &mdash; on Paul Weiss and the legal sphere. We have seen a complete capitulation by the legislative branch, the Republican majority, to what the president wants to do in the executive. And all our hopes for the maintenance of our democracy now rests with the judiciary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And in the olden days, before Trump, you would rely on these white shoe law firms like Paul Weiss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-red-states-must-beat-the-left-at-its-own-game-heres-what-they-need-to-do-part-3\/\" title=\"Red states must outplay the left. Here&#039;s how (Part 3).\">provide pro bono<\/a> help to folks who are suing for redress, who want the courts to step in when Congress or the president goes overboard. When a Paul Weiss decides to pull back, when other big law firms like that decide to pull back, what does that mean in terms of the judiciary&rsquo;s ability to stop a president like Trump? And that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s so concerning to me about this piece of the capitulation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NAWAZ:<\/strong> <em>David?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DAVID BROOKS:<\/strong> <em>Yeah, people call Trump a transactional politician, but he&rsquo;s an extortionist. That&rsquo;s actually a difference. A transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want. And so that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re seeing here. Now, I put myself in the shoes of, say, the president of Columbia, the head of Paul Weiss. And I think, well, if I compromise with Trump, I&rsquo;m hurting my institution. But if I lose $400 million, I&rsquo;m also hurting my institution. These are real choices that people have to make. And I understand that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the case of Columbia [University], I personally think the Trump requests or demands, whatever it is, are kind of reasonable, and Columbia should have done all this stuff five or 10 years ago. They really did get ideologically out of control. And if they&rsquo;re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, then you&rsquo;ve got a problem. And they created this problem. So I understand why. I got to save my university. I got to save $400 million.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the other hand, caving into an extortionist rarely pays off because he will say, &lsquo;Oh, I take that. Here&rsquo;s my next demand, here&rsquo;s my next demand.&rsquo; And if you look at the history of Zelensky, Macron, people &mdash; all the people who&rsquo;ve tried to cozy up to the extortionists, they all end up losing in the end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so I think it&rsquo;s time for the universities as a body &mdash; and we saw this with the Princeton president &mdash; to say no more deals. We are standing up because there will be a time &mdash; and, again, I don&rsquo;t think this is quite the time to sort of beat down the Trump administration. There will be a time where everybody has to hold together and stand up and say, no, no more deals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Brent Baker,<\/a> the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: &ldquo;A perfect reflection of how &lsquo;diversity&rsquo; on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS&rsquo;s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as offering perspective from the left and right, does not (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/alex-christy\/2025\/03\/11\/pbs-conservative-david-brooks-agrees-capehart-61-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Media Research Center analysis<\/a>). Indeed, they regularly find commonality to denouncing President Trump. So much for PBS viewers hearing much of anything that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all things Trump.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>FOUR<\/strong> out of <strong>five<\/strong> screams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2073396\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2073396\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Media Scream: PBS faces backlash as centrist labels Trump an &#8216;extortionist,&#8217; fueling conservative calls to cut public TV funding due to perceived anti-Trump bias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2414643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-Media-Scream-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32491,19688,3634],"class_list":["post-2414642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-liberal-media","tag-tds","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-Media-Scream-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414646,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414642\/revisions\/2414646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}