Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson took a break from Ukraine coverage towards the end of her Thursday show to hype the “potentially history-making night” to come as transgender swimming Lia Thomas prepared to compete in the NCAA swimming championships. Together with activist Chris Mosier, the duo demanded Thomas be celebrated for making it to the championships.
After touting the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] A confused PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff sought to inquire on Wednesday how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell could possibly oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court considering some conservatives have signaled support for her.
Sounding like a Biden administration spokesman Andrew Bates, Woodruff claimed that Jackson is a historic…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and former impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch’s book tour took her to PBS on Tuesday where NewsHour host Judy Woodruff and Amanpour and Company’s Christiane Amanpour wondered how former President Trump played into Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Woodruff wondered if Trump sent some sort of signal to Putin, “But when it…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Tuesday brought the sad news Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova were killed covering the war in Ukraine. As part of Deadline: White House’s coverage of the news on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and journalist Sebastian Junger covered what they considered an important angle to the story: Donald Trump.
The segment was started out well…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Seth Meyers called BS on Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on Monday’s installment of Late Night on NBC for pointing out that despite all the rhetoric coming from President Biden, he is still partnering with Vladimir Putin on significant issues. Of course, Meyers never refuted the claim.
Teeing up a clip of Bartiromo’s Saturday show, Meyers declared that during the war in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] As ordinary Ukrainians flee in order to flee from the Russian invaders, CBS Saturday Morning declared that that, unlike other refugees, they benefit from their race.
As part of a video report, anchor Jericka Duncan interviewed historian Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the racial aspect of the evacuations. St. Julian Varnon declared, “You know, it's—it’s-- one of those …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Friday to launch all sorts of strawman attacks against the “hideous” and “horrendous” agenda coming from Republican governors and state legislators across the country.
Woodruff asked Capehart about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and “what they call the Don't Say Gay Act, the Stop Woke Act…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former Attorney General Bill Barr took his book tour to The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN on Friday where Tapper, despite acknowledging that Barr’s assessment of the Russian collusion narrative is correct, wondered if Barr was still helping Vladimir Putin.
Tapper began by conceding that Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not bring any collusion-related charges against…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Towards the end of Thursday’s Inside Politics on CNN, host John King and chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju lamented that Republicans are not lining up to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson amid her “historic nomination” to the Supreme Court.
King got the ball rolling, suggesting that if a handful of Republicans were willing to vote for her to be on the D.C.…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After hosting her own show on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell ventured over to MTP Daily to continue in the media’s newest tradition of acting like historically high gas prices are solely due to Vladimir Putin’s decision to wage war on Ukraine. Not only did Mitchell defend that talking point, she hailed it as “a great way to message it.”
Host Chuck Todd had just…