Alex Christy
Alex Christy | June 14, 2025
On a Thursday and a rare Friday episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous host insisted that if you just ignore all the burning cars, robberies, and other criminality, “all hell isn’t breaking loose” in Los Angeles. ... The next day, Kimmel echoed the sentiment about burning cars but added, “Here in Los Angeles, every cable news network is still breathlessly waiting for something to…
Alex Christy | June 14, 2025
On a Thursday and a rare Friday episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous host insisted that if you just ignore all the burning cars, robberies, and other criminality, “all hell isn’t breaking loose” in Los Angeles. For Thursday’s show, Kimmel introduced a video, “You know, our announcer, Lou [Wilson], went downtown today where all hell isn't breaking loose. And this is what he saw…
Alex Christy | June 14, 2025
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour that he knows the actual reason for President Trump’s response to rioting in Los Angeles and for Saturday’s Army parade in Washington. According to him, it is all part of a scheme that will eventually allow Trump to cancel elections. Capehart recalled, “I think they're creating the political conflict…
Alex Christy | June 12, 2025
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera grew up in the 80s, and the media landscape has changed a lot since then, but on her Thursday show, she implied her family’s inability to pay for cable as a child means Congress should not approve President Trump’s rescission package that seeks to defund PBS and NPR. During an interview with ranking member of the House Budgetary Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle, Cabrera wondered…
Alex Christy | June 12, 2025
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to promote season two of Netflix’s FUBAR, but the duo could not resist talking about the LA riots. Both men insisted everything has been blown way out of proportion, but Schwarzenegger also claimed the violence has been the result of politicians not passing “comprehensive immigration reform,” which he partly defined…
Alex Christy | June 12, 2025
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to promote season two of Netflix’s FUBAR, but the duo could not resist talking about the LA riots. Both men insisted everything has been blown way out of proportion, but Schwarzenegger also claimed the violence has been the result of politicians not passing “comprehensive immigration reform,” which he partly defined…
Alex Christy | June 12, 2025
NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773. Meyers was agreeing with…
Alex Christy | June 11, 2025
NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR wasn’t on…
Alex Christy | June 11, 2025
NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR wasn’t on…
Alex Christy | June 11, 2025
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace travelled over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to promote her new podcast because, apparently, everybody needs their own podcast. But other than self-promotion, Wallace would accuse the Trump Administration of laying siege to Los Angeles and claim Trump just wants to “[bleep] around with the military.” Colbert would get the ball rolling by…