Alex Christy
Alex Christy | April 5, 2022
See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson regarded on Tuesday that “a pregnant person” in Texas may soon not be able to travel to Oklahoma to get an abortion because that state passed a new pro-life bill modeled on Texas’s own pro-life law. Coming out of commercial break, Jackson spread some fake news about the Oklahoma bill along with some woke language, “In just the last hour you got…
Alex Christy | April 5, 2022
See NewsBusters for more.] ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel stooped even lower in his Supreme Court confirmation hearing analysis on his Monday show as he accused Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn of trying to women back 50 years while also going after her looks. Kimmel has not been a fan of Republicans asking nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define the word “woman.” Continuing with this theme while…
Alex Christy | April 2, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Saturday's The Cross Connection, MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross used the manufactured controversy over Justice Clarence Thomas’s refusal to recuse himself on January 6-related cases because of his wife Ginni’s work to declare that Thomas is his white wife’s puppet and to suggest that he suffers from some sort of racial identity crisis. As if to prove her point, Cross…
Alex Christy | April 2, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] HBO Real Time host Bill Maher accused the media on Friday of burying the 2020 story of Hunter Biden’s laptop because “it wasn't part of their narrative” and because the story broke in the New York Post. Maher also concluded by declaring that the lack of initial coverage is why Americans do not trust the media, “Now, what I said at the beginning, how it came to them? …
Alex Christy | April 1, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] As part of a Friday segment on MTP Daily on MSNBC, correspondent Morgan Radford blamed Fox News, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Greenwald for online death threats and sexual harassment directed at female journalists, which included Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz tying such attacks to her PTSD. Host Chuck Todd came out of commercial and set the table, “The…
Alex Christy | April 1, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC senior business correspondent and The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle appeared on MSNBC Reports on Friday to absolve President Biden of any blame for high gas prices and to enthusiastically endorse tax increases as the solution. After Biden gave a speech on the March jobs report, host Joe Fryer asked Ruhle to provide a reality check. After declaring the jobs…
Alex Christy | March 31, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] On her Thursday show on MSNBC, Hallie Jackson asked President Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health, transgender Adm. Rachel Levine, what the administration is doing to combat Republican efforts to pass allegedly anti-trans laws. Jackson began by highlighting what the White House had done on “this National Day of Visibility. Really important I think to so many people…
Alex Christy | March 31, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Biden Administration is considering ending Trump-era COVID Title 42 policies that make it easier to deport migrants who show up at the southern border. In the meantime, exemptions are open to Ukrainians which led MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart and Allen Orr of the American Immigration Lawyers Association to cry racism on the former’s Thursday show. After highlighting…
Alex Christy | March 31, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] To promote his new Benjamin Franklin documentary on Wednesday, Ken Burns journeyed over to MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle where he told the show’s namesake host that he was worried about the future of democracy and then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and President Biden reversed those concerns. For her part, Ruhle dismissed the Founding Fathers as white…
Alex Christy | March 30, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] Reacting to the news on Wednesday’s New Day that Susan Collins became the first GOP senator to announce her intention to vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggested that it is Republicans who are to blame for the general raise in partisanship in Supreme Court confirmations. Toobin’s ahistorical remarks came after host…