Jim Acosta: If I Had a Magic Wand, ‘I Would Send Billions of Dollars to Public Broadcasting’

Jim Acosta: If I Had a Magic Wand, 'I Would Send Billions of Dollars to Public Broadcasting' PBS News Hour co-host Geoff Bennett turned up on The Jim Acosta Show to promote his new book on black comedy titled Black Out Loud. Bennett and Acosta were both White House reporters in Trump's first term. After talking all about The Cosby Show and In Living Color, Acosta felt compelled to gush over PBS to a rather overenthusiastic degree. After Acosta discussed his amazing experience as a subject on the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Roots, he praised the entire enterprise: Jim @Acosta gushes to PBS host Geoff Bennett: "There's so many quality programs on PBS. I tell people all the time, if I could wave a magic wand, I would send BILLIONS of dollars to public broadcasting." That tells you who PBS pleases, and who PBS serves. pic.twitter.com/35hUb6aaE5 — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 27, 2026 ACOSTA: And there's so many -- Frontline -- there's so many quality programs on PBS. I tell people all the time, if I could wave a magic wand, I would send billions of dollars to public broadcasting. BENNETT: [laughs]: Yeah. And I gotta say, it's really heartening to see the ways in which our viewers have stepped up post defunding. And the philanthropy is terrific, but really, it's the individual viewers who are standing in the gap and, deeply appreciate it. Shortly before this financial fantasy, Acosta cued up the first tribute, that PBS is how you can "fix the news." Oh, the fix the news, all right: Jim @Acosta tells PBS's Geoff Bennett that when people ask how to "fix the news," he promotes PBS. Oh, they "fix the news" all right. The rig it just the way that the Left wants it. Bennett brags...