W.H. backs right-wing PragerU ("helped launch careers of right-wing figures like Candace Owens") as PBS "replacement"

[Miles Archer]

The White House has backed a right-wing educational partner to replace PBS after congressional Republicans effectively killed off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The publicly funded entity will shut down after Congress clawed back $500 million of federal funding in President Donald Trump's massive tax-and-spending law, but the White House announced a new partnership with the nonprofit PragerU, which specializes in right-leaning educational videos for adults and children, reported Vox.

"Since its founding in 2009, PragerU has become a juggernaut in the conservative educational media space, with their videos reaching millions of followers across social media," the website reported. "The organization has helped launch the media careers of right-wing figures like Candace Owens. Their popular videos elevate narratives that have been sharply criticized as climate denialist, Islamophobic, and 'misleading' about slavery."

https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-in-schools-critics-hell/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Grift Away

Like giving Rush Limbaugh a diploma to steal minds.

[Miles Archer]

3. Giving him the "Presidential Medal of Freedom"...

...was easily one of the low points in Western civilization. Intended exactly as such by Trump, because it tickled the MAGAts and teed off the libs.

Trump's act was tiresome before he came down that escalator.

[Initech]

2. Oh that's fucking disgusting!

Fuck Prager U! Fuck Trump!

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "helped launch the media careers of right-wing figures like Candace Owens" - sure, that slots right in with the CPR

A nutcase now raving about a well-known public woman who has borne children actually being trans, and getting sued for it. What could better take up the mantle of the CPR?

I suppose if you think a heroin addict and suspected steroid abuser with a history of carting around wild animal carcasses on and in his cars, and leaving them in "amusing" places, who has made millions by lying about vaccines, is a suitable head of the HHS department, while a Fox News talking head known for drunkenness, sexual harassment, running charities into the ground and white supremacist tattoos is your ideal defense secretary, then Owens looks like the kind of person you want to replace Sesame Street.

[Nanjeanne]

5. Oh Dear God.