PBS is likely to be seen as a sleepy avenue for evaluation after the State of the Union and the Republican rebuttal, however on Tuesday, new Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders was fiercely essential of President Biden, so Washington Put up columnist/MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart uncorked a match, mendacity about how Republicans need to abolish most of black historical past in public faculties.

You knew a ran was coming when PBS anchor Amna Nawaz stated “Jonathan, I noticed you scribbling furiously as Governor Sanders was talking. There was this era of latest leaders, she was speaking about. The distinction between the place she holds and President Biden. She did function press secretary for the earlier Republican president, whose identify she didn’t point out.”

Capehart informed his colleague David Brooks he was glad he noticed that Sanders targeted on tradition wars and did not contact on the economic system. 

On PBS after the GOP response, Jonathan Capehart had a match, stated he needed to “levitate” out of his chair. Begins mendacity about how one way or the other the Republicans try to ban black historical past just like the Little Rock 9 from faculties. PBS wants a reality checker. This channel is AWFUL. pic.twitter.com/y9hjwW5fnN

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 8, 2023

CAPEHART: You took her speech critically in a approach I could not the second she stated he is a person who can’t say what a girl is. This speech — I am making an attempt to not levitate from my chair as a result of there have been so many — she leaned so arduous into the tradition wars, that she simply slid proper into ignorance. For her to say, to revel within the reality she’s an alum of Little Rock Central Excessive Faculty and lauding the Little Rock 9 and their statues — they’re memorialized! When the Republicans,  significantly in Florida and I guess now in Arkansas are going to make it unlawful for college students to study why the Little Rock 9 are vital and in bronze in Little Rock. 

This speech was fully offensive. When she talks about Republicans are there for freedom and People, which People and what freedoms? What concerning the trans children who have targets on their backs? Or LGBTQ children jn faculties, or black children in faculties who cannot study their historical past as a result of authorities is making it unlawful? Great, she’s the youngest governor in Arkansas and he or she is drawing these contrasts with an 80-year-old president, however thank goodness we now have an 80-year-old president who simply gave a speech to the whole nation about what he needs to do for them.

There was that second when the president stated, look, “you guys — you voted in opposition to the infrastructure invoice, however then you present up and take credit score for the tasks and the roles that come. I stay up for you guys doing it once more.” She doesn’t have that message. The message she simply gave to the nation and on behalf of the Republican celebration simply proves to me that the Republican celebration is misplaced, not misplaced, it’s gone. 

Then, as PBS wrapped up its protection round 11:15 pm, Jap time, Brooks returned to the Sanders speech, and bizarrely claimed that Biden is “not likely a part of the coastal cultural elite.” He is solely the President, who ranted within the speech about making abortion authorized always and supported the whole LGBTQ menu of tradition wars.

On PBS after the SOTU, David Brooks stated the GOP “thinks there is a coastal cultural elite that appears down on them, and is method to their left on values points….Is it a profitable battle in opposition to Joe Biden, who’s not likely a part of the coastal cultural elite? I believe in all probability not?” pic.twitter.com/LglkYO2yIK

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 8, 2023