Alex Christy
Alex Christy | February 7, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] When liberals cite racism in their effort to cancel certain Dr. Seuss books, former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton voices his approval. When conservatives try to regulate which books appear in school libraries, he appears on Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to do a skit about how logic would dictate conservatives ban C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of…
Alex Christy | February 7, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid is out with a new book on Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1963, and his wife, Myrlie. Her book tour took her to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, where she would compare her favorite politicians, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and the Tennessee Three, to Evers by noting their “courage.”
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] As House Republicans prepared to hold a vote on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday, CNN This Morning anchor Phil Mattingly implied to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that the move would be racist or anti-immigrant simply because of Mayorkas’s biography.
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers used the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night to roll out the red carpet for two of the most left-wing members of the Senate in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The two hosts lobbed mostly softballs and let their guests go on unchallenged monologues as they discussed their favorite pet issues.
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers used the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night to roll out the red carpet for two of the most left-wing members of the Senate in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The two hosts lobbed mostly softballs and let their guests go on unchallenged monologues as they discussed their favorite pet issues.
Alex Christy | February 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Al Gore is not just a former vice president, according to a Saturday CNN chyron, he is also an “eco-warrior.” Such was the context for Gore’s appearance with Christiane Amanpour as the two demanded “some massively radical thing” to be done about the supposed horror of fossil fuel usage.
Alex Christy | February 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] When it comes to the current chaos in the Middle East, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi developed a novel theory on who is to blame as he guest hosted Friday’s The Last Word. For Velshi, it is Donald Trump.
Alex Christy | February 2, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] About a year ago, CNN climate warrior Bill Weir traveled 6,600 miles to Ushuaia, Argentina, to lament the use of fossil fuels before setting off for Antarctica to tag along with a group of whale scientists. On Friday, Weir joined CNN News Central to promote the new documentary that came from that trip and reveal that those scientists were studying whale excrement.
Alex Christy | February 2, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] A recent poll showed President Joe Biden leading former President Donald Trump 50-44 and CBS’s Stephen Colbert could hardly contain his excitement. On Thursday’s The Late Show, Colbert claimed the reason for the numbers was because women know that Biden is the only thing preventing the Supreme Court from “putting a go-pro in their uterus.” Colbert would also later…
Alex Christy | February 1, 2024
In the spirit of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, CBS’s After Midnight is a reboot of Comedy Central’s quasi-game show @Midnight that the network chose to replace The Late Late Show with James Corden. The show, executive produced by Stephen Colbert, selected young Netflix fixture Taylor Tomlinson to be the host and after ten episodes it is time to see how the show’s politics match up its traditional…