Alex Christy
Alex Christy | October 23, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Friday's edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC devolved into hyperbolic name-calling when host Brian Williams compared Republicans to "killers" and the Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt comparing them to fascists all while Democrats do nothing to stop them. After Schmidt, who for unknown reasons used to consider himself a Republican, attacked Democrats for not doing…
Alex Christy | October 22, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Late in her Friday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell claimed it was ironic that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has not gotten onboard with his party's climate initiatives, considering the state needs them more most other states and it is a national security crisis. In an interview with Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, she also claimed the Senate to be unfair and hoped for…
Alex Christy | October 21, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] MTP Daily host Chuck Todd and NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton continued MSNBC's obsession with Texas' anti-Critical Race Theory law on Thursday and did not appreciate it when author of the law, State Sen. Bryan Hughes, told them to focus on the text of the bill, not how it is portrayed. Todd began by decrying "full-on culture war over a simple question of how we…
Alex Christy | October 20, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Democrats appear to be in disarray, which was of great concern to MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday as she got into a bit of argument with New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer on the party's inability to negotiate with itself. Ruhle's frustration came after Gottheimer declared that the process is moving along as it should, "But, how are you working with them? Because I'…
Alex Christy | October 18, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Monday, MTP Daily guest host Garrett Haake launched a series of personal and straw man attacks against Texas' anti-Critical Race Theory law. Together with Prof. Keith Mayes, the two tried to portray conservatives as clinging to the Lost Cause narrative, among other things. Haake led off the segment by declaring "This country is in the midst of what is arguably the…
Alex Christy | October 16, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Republicans in Texas are doing what might be expected of red state Republicans and that has The 11th Hour's Brian Williams very concerned. On his Friday show on MSNBC, Williams worried that "the Texas brand" will spread to other states, just like Jim Crow did. To make his point, Williams began by reading from a Charles Blow article in the New York Times, "'when Jim…
Alex Christy | October 14, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Craig Melvin Reports guest host Yasmin Vossoughian and correspondent Ellison Barber ratcheted up MSNBC's crusade against state-level pro-life laws on Thursday as they warned that a new Missouri law could lead to increases in things such as breast cancer.  Vossoughian kicked off the segment by declaring that, "The last remaining abortion provider in Missouri, the …
Alex Christy | October 12, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] While guest hosting Stephanie Ruhle Reports on Tuesday Yasmin Vossoughian worried that Democrats will not be able to squeeze every single left-wing priority into their reconciliation bill and that it might be decades before they get another chance. Vossoughian was speaking with Congressional correspondent Ali Vitali when she read from a New York Times article, "'A…
Alex Christy | October 11, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Irony died on Monday's edition of At This Hour on CNN as guest host Boris Sanchez and "transgender D.J. and actress" Lina Bradford urged viewers to reconsider their Netflix subscriptions in the aftermath of Dave Chappelle's latest comedy show, where he took on cancel culture and woke gender theory. Sanchez kicked off the segment declaring Chappelle's show to be full…
Alex Christy | October 9, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joined Don Lemon Tonight on Friday to discuss the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issuing a procedural ruling reinstating Texas' pro-life law, at least temporarily. While Toobin managed to keep his pants on this time, he did call the decision a "complete outrage." Lemon asked Toobin about the state's "wildly restrictive abortion law"…