PBS Hosts Far-Left Smear Factory to Demonize Trump—Using Your Tax Dollars; Trump’s Threat to Defund All US Public Media Has NPR and PBS On the Back Foot

PBS Hosts Far-Left Smear Factory to Demonize Trump—Using Your Tax Dollars:

PBS, backed by your tax dollars, hosted the leader of a group that compares conservatives to the KKK, and she used the opportunity to demonize President-elect Donald Trump. Then PBS hosted one of her close allies who suggested that America failing to elect Vice President Kamala Harris emboldens misogyny.

The two segments make a rather eloquent case against continued public funding for PBS.

In late November, PBS reporter Stephanie Sy interviewed Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, about a series of racist text messages under investigation by the FBI. Sy noted that “we have no clearer sense of who sent” the text messages, but Huang—whose organization keeps mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—immediately connected the text messages to “hate groups” and Trump’s election victory.

“It’s really clear to us that hate and extremist groups are using the election of Donald Trump as an encouragement to cause fear and anxiety in communities of color, in religious communities, and in the LGBTQ community,” Huang said. “Because of his use of racist, sexist, and other discriminatory rhetoric on the campaign trail, he has essentially encouraged his followers to spew hateful rhetoric and he’s emboldened them to embrace this hateful ideology.”

🚨’HATEFUL IDEOLOGY’

PBS News, backed in part by your tax dollars💰, hosted the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Margaret Huang, who condemned Trump for supposedly emboldening “hate” around the election.

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— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) January 1, 2025

Huang’s attack on Trump should surprise no one. As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC weaponized its history in bankrupting Ku Klux Klan groups to demonize conservatives.

Its “hate map” plots chapters of the KKK alongside parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty, immigration groups like the Center for Immigration Studies, groups of doctors who dissent from gender ideology like Do No Harm, and conservative Christian groups like Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council. Some of these groups advised Trump during his first term.

The Family Research Council, a policy nonprofit in Washington, D.C., faced a terrorist attack in 2012 inspired by the SPLC “hate map.”

Amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal at SPLC in 2019, a former employee called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.” After that scandal, SPLC staff formed their own union. Earlier this year, the union accused SPLC leadership of union-busting amid a restructure.

The Dustin Inman Society, a Georgia-based group that supports the enforcement of immigration law, sued the SPLC for defamation after the SPLC branded the society an “anti-immigrant hate group.” While a few of SPLC’s targets have sued for defamation, the SPLC often weasels out of being held accountable. The Dustin Inman Society’s lawsuit made it past SPLC’s motion to dismiss last year, marking a key step forward in holding the smear group accountable.—>READ MORE HERE

Trump’s threat to defund all US public media has NPR and PBS on the back foot:

On the campaign trail this year, Donald Trump routinely criticized US media. The president-elect called for CBS to be stripped of its broadcast license after it aired an interview with Kamala Harris, refused to participate in an interview with 60 Minutes and routinely called journalists the “enemy of the people”.

But perhaps no American media has attracted as much ire from the president-elect as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – a non-profit corporation created by federal law in 1967 to distribute funding to public media organizations like PBS and NPR.

“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social in April. “THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!”

As the Trump prepares to take office next month, public media organizations – such as NPR and PBS, which have aired longtime favorites such as Curious George and All Things Considered – are readying themselves for funding cuts and other attacks against their programming. After Trump was re-elected in November, NPR member stations circulated a report warning that “it would be unwise to assume that events will play out as they have in the past” where funding is concerned, the New York Times reported Friday, and PBS board members received an update from political consultants earlier this month.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly called for the federal government to cut all funding to public media. In March 2017, Trump called for Congress to cut all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the first proposed budget of his presidency – a call he repeated throughout his presidency.

In response to a 2020 effort to defund public media, the PBS president and CEO, Paula Kerger, issued a statement noting that “PBS and our member stations have earned bipartisan Congressional support because of the vital role that public television plays in homes and communities across the country. For 50 years, PBS has served as a trusted source for educational and thought-provoking programming, including school readiness initiatives for children, support for teachers and caregivers, public safety communications and lifelong learning across broadcast and digital platforms.”

But the conservative playbook Project 2025 has continued echoing conservative calls to cut funding to PBS and NPR, stating that the new Trump administration should strip public media of federal funding and licenses for noncommercial education stations.

“Not only is the federal government trillions of dollars in debt and unable to afford the more than half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year, but the government should not be compelling the conservative half of the country to pay for the suppression of its own views,” Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow, wrote in the document, repeating a common conservative refrain that public media leans to the left. —>READ MORE HERE

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