Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] If you are the sort of person who likes to go hunting or enjoys target shooting, TBS’s Samantha Bee holds you, at least, partly responsible for gun violence in America. On Thursday’s edition of Full Frontal, Bee proclaimed that “Human lives are not an acceptable cost for a hobby.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Ahead of the primetime hearings, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter joined Thursday’s CNN Newsroom simultaneously argued that the January 6 Committee needs to “make this an effective show” and that Fox News is not a news, but rather an entertainment channel for not showing the hearings live.
[See NewsBusters for more.] While President Biden going on Jimmy Kimmel Live! may have taken up most of the headlines, CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert welcomed Rep. Adam Schiff onto his Wednesday program to preview Thursday’s January 6 Committee hearings by lamenting that the committee had to hire “a fancy TV producer” to get people to care about the future of democracy.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Led by White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe, the cast of Thursday’s CBS Mornings reacted to President Biden’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! not by lamenting Biden only sitting down for softball interviews, but that Biden was following in the history of presidents using late night shows to appear more relatable.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom’s Alisyn Camerota apparently believes that car control is a common proposal to combat drunk driving as she interviewed Republican congressman Michael Burgess on Wednesday’s program and grilled him on why he refuses to support raising the purchasing age of AR-15s to 21.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Hake interviewed Rep. Ro Khana on the Wednesday’s MSNBC Reports for what turned out to be a series of lamentations against Republicans. Haake would declare GOP answers in support of gun rights to be “suboptimal,” wondered what to do about those pesky GOP voters, and told Khana is mission is to try to figure out how to defeat “the anti…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart believes Republicans are so racist that he informed MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports on Tuesday that he has an “Operation Von Trapp” contingency plan to flee the country in the same manner of the Trapp family's flee from Austria after the Anschluss made famous in The Sound of Music.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Most people would consider record-high energy prices as evidence that President Biden needs to reverse his policies, but NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers is not most people. On his Tuesday-taped program, Meyers encouraged Democrats to double down and pass the Green New Deal while also sarcastically apologizing for not getting facts about guns correct.
[See NewsBusters for more.] According to MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross and her Saturday The Cross Connection guests, Republican women support the oppression of women through their support of the patriarchy and could credibly accused of racism and having white privilege.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined MSNBC’s The 11th Hour on Friday night to discuss gun control and why such efforts appear to be going nowhere. For Capehart, the answer is that not enough Republicans are willing to buck the NRA, which is allegedly fearmongering on thigs such as gun confiscation.