Like many liberal media outlets which are NOT funded by taxpayers, PBS is especially enamored of programming about the plight of minorities, including Hispanics. (One series was titled “Chicano!”) That doesn’t mean they have to like them in real life. In his search through a local newspaper (the Arlington Journal), MRC guru Brent Baker found that WETA, Washington’s largest and most prestigious public TV station, is quite unhappy with local officials for building a pavilion for day laborers right next door to its headquarters in the “Shirlington” neighborhood.

WETA’s Chief Executive Officer, Sharon Percy Rockefeller (the wife of Sen. Jay Rockefeller) made an almost unprecedented appearance at a meeting of the all-Democrat County Board, and delivered a “stinging” rebuke: “You’ve been wonderful to work with — until recently,” Mrs. Rockefeller said. She predicted a “pretty hostile environment” for WETA employees who could be accosted by day laborers while walking from one building to another. Putting the day-laborer building in the planned location will also “inconvenience high-profile guests” who arrive to be interviewed on the “NewsHour,” which is produced from WETA’s studios, Mrs. Rockefeller said.

Will we see any nasty-grams from LULAC or La Raza on the stereotypes circulating in Mrs. Rockefeller’s head?