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PBS Links GOP to Racism, Wrongly Implies George Wallace Was Republican
Brad Wilmouth
July 5th, 2020 6:02 AM
 

On Thursday evening, PBS NewsHour displayed the latest example of journalists and other liberals suggesting that segregationist former Alabama Governor George Wallace was a Republican when he, in fact, was a lifelong Democrat.

In a pre-recorded piece by correspondent Yamiche Alcindor about criticism President Donald Trump is receiving over racial issues, at one point, Alcindor went to liberal MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude and cued up his claims that "many Republican leaders" have exploited racism in the past.

Here's Alcindor: "Glaude says the bigger picture is that Trump is using race to stoke fear like many Republican leaders before him."

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2020/07/05/pbs-links-gop-racism-wrongly-implies-george-wallace-was