PBS claims that they’re just great at promoting a diversity of viewpoints, but in reality, they mostly channel the left, and sometimes the far left….and they won’t identify them as left.

Blink and you might miss it, but on Monday night, the News Hour promoted three leftist Democrats running in House or Senate primaries. The online headline was “How young Democratic candidates are pushing to redefine the party’s future.”

The online summary was this: “Young Democratic candidates are launching primary bids for national office in hopes of charting a new path forward for a party in disarray.”

Nowhere in this transcript were any ideological labels – liberal, left, progressive, socialist, nothing. PBS reporter Laura Barron-Lopez introduced the segment, but asked no questions, not like how she grilled Biden's Democrat primary challenger Dean Phillips about hurting the Democrats. This looked like an audition tape, not a journalistic product.

The three candidates were Mallory McMorrow, running for the open Senate seat in Michigan; Jake Rakov, running against 14-term Rep. Brad Sherman of California (American Conservative Union rating, 6.6 percent); and Kat Abughazaleh, who was running against 13-term Rep. Jan Schakowski of Illinois (ACU rating of 3 percent)...until the congresswoman decided not to run again. So PBS is promoting candidates to the left of the three-percenters. 

The nastiness toward Trump was obligatory. Abughazaleh broke out the anti-fascist hot talk: "Every single authoritarian movement thrives when the opposition party refuses to actually stand up to them. Anyone that's taken a middle school history class knows that appeasement isn't effective."

There was more of that #Resistance chatter: 

ABUGHAZALEH: And that the strategy is to stand back, hands off until 2026 and hope enough people get hurt that they will vote Democrat in the midterms, that's not only morally repugnant. You are banking on people being hurt by this administration. But it's also stupid, because you're letting Trump dismantle this country.

JAKE RAKOV: We all knew he was going to be a chaotic, he was going to be unstable, he was going to do power grabs. And to see how slowly they were to respond in the first few months, I think, upset a lot of our base and a lot of other Democratic voters who looked around and said, what are you doing? Do something. Do anything.

MALLORY McMORROW: This is about approach. Are you somebody who fights or are you somebody who sits back? Are you active or are you passive? Do you have the ability to break through, meet people where they are and talk to people in a real, human way? And that is my lane. I know how to break through. I know how to communicate with people.

The Left is unhappy with the Democrats, and so their taxpayer-funded channel (PBS) is going to feature those extreme voices. Nobody is invited to suggest they're too extreme.

Instead, Barron-Lopez turned to journalist Jasmine Wright of NOTUS: "Are Democrats meeting the demands that their voters are placing on them when it comes to confronting President Trump?" Wright said "every Democratic voter I have talked to for the last three months would tell you no, quite frankly. A lot of times, they call them feckless."