PBS President Bewildered by Accusations of Left-Wing Bias

PBS CEO and president Paula Kerger reiterated this week that she doesn’t see any liberal or left-wing bias at PBS.

“When I look at the range of our programming on public broadcasting, I can‘t make any sense of an argument that we are somehow biased in any way,” Kerger told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez before the Senate voted for President Trump’s rescission package that would cut funding to National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS.

The funding cut of $1.1 billion over two years to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which acts as a conduit for funding local NPR and PBS stations.

Kerger apparently missed the following examples of bias as posted to WhiteHouse.gov:

• In 2024, NPR ran a Valentine’s Day feature around “queer animals,” in which it suggested the make-believe clownfish in Finding Nemo would’ve been better off as a female, that “banana slugs are hermaphrodites,” and that “some deer are nonbinary.”
• In 2024, PBS produced a documentary making the case for reparations.
• In 2023, PBS’s Washington Week roundtable covered up Joe Biden’s clear mental decline, with far-left “journalist” Jeff Goldberg claiming Biden is actually “quite acute.”
• In 2022, NPR educated the nation on the “whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts” and “trans-ceratops.”
• In 2021, a PBS station aired a “children’s program” that featured a drag queen named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess.”
• In 2021, NPR reported on the “cousin of diet culture” known as “healthism, which is the idea that we have to be healthy” — as if that was a bad thing.
• In 2021, NPR suggested doorway sizes are based on “latent fatphobia.”
• In 2021, NPR lamented that “animals deserve pronouns, too.”
• In 2022, NPR ran a feature titled “What ‘Queer Ducks’ can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom.”
• In 2020, PBS show Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall aimed presenting children with a one-sided narrative to “address racism” amid the Black Lives Matter riots.
• In 2020, NPR explored “the racial origins of fat phobia.”
• In 2017, NPR ran a story titled “Cannibalism: It’s ‘Perfectly Natural,’” in which an author describes eating another human’s placenta: “It was really the prep that made it taste good. Granted, the [husband] was a chef and so he knew how to prepare it osso bucco style and used a really nice wine I had brought. It smelled great. It didn’t taste bad.”
• In 2017, PBS aired a panel devoted to what it “mean[s] to be woke” and “white privilege.”
• In 2017, PBS produced an entire movie celebrating a transgender teenager’s so-called “changing gender identity.”
• In 2015, NPR dedicated an entire segment to the “population of anthropomorphic animal enthusiasts known as ‘furries.’”

 

The funding cut is historic, as Republicans have been trying to cut funding to CPB since President Nixon’s days.