Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] As part of a segment critical of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, CNN Newsroom guest host Erica Hill and The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein included mention of Paul's one week suspension for YouTube where he questioned the effectiveness of cloth masks. Lost on the two was that former Biden advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm said the exact same thing on CNN the previous week.
Talk of…
[See NewsBusters for more.] John Avlon and CNN Newsroom substitute host Erica Hill began Wednesday's show by hailing and fawning over President Biden for having most transformative and impactful first year as president since Ronald Reagan.
Hill began by insisting that, "we can't ignore the historical significance here" and asking Avlon just "How big of an accomplishment is this for President…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN climate guy Bill Weir joined At This Hour guest host Boris Sanchez to discuss the latest U.N. report calling climate change "code red for humanity." Weir sounded pessimistic about governments' willingness to do anything about it, but in an attempt to find some optimism hyped lawsuits by children amidst "the social license to go drilling for oil."
Weir began by…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Forget New York's Andrew Cuomo with his nursing home and sexual harassment scandals, according to CNN's Don Lemon and Matthew Dowd, Texas' Greg Abbott "is in a race to be the worst possible governor" with Florida's Ron DeSantis.
The charge against Abbott in particular came on Lemon's Friday show after he called for a second special session after Texas Democrats fled…
[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS White House correspondent and MSNBC contributor Yamiche Alcindor joined Andrea Mitchell Reports on Wednesday to discuss the fallout of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment and abuse scandal. For Alcindor one of the takeaways is that, unlike Republicans, Democrats have no tolerance for such behavior.
After talking about the "cringe" slideshow presentation…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The media's obsession with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued on Tuesday as Katy Tur Reports guest host Geoff Bennett let Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried spread multiple untruths about DeSantis' pandemic response. That Fried was allowed to spread such claims was not surprising as Bennett's questioning relied on similarly false premises…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For most people, the idea that conservative groups donate money to conservative causes is so obvious it wouldn't even be considered interesting, but MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and the New Yorker's Jane Mayer are not most people. On Mitchell's Monday show, Mayer attempted to paint a picture of conservative dark money groups waging war in "trying to suppress the vote."…
[See NewsBusters for more.] It is obvious that CNN's Chris Cuomo, and the rest of the media, view Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a 2024 threat, hence every discussion about COVID and the Delta variant must include an implication that Florida is a uniquely dire situation. On his Friday show, Cuomo blamed Florida for the CDC's revised mask guidelines, saying the country was being "held hostage"…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Atlantic's Adam Serwer joined Katy Tur Reports guest host Geoff Bennett on Thursday to discuss a piece he wrote where he attacked Democrats from the left on not doing enough to fight alleged GOP voter suppression. With Bennett, he accused the GOP of "experimenting with voter suppression" so that "they have no longer have any need to respect the rights of their…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Appearing on Wednesday's Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared that "white male conservatives" and former President Trump are to blame for the CDC's flip-flopping on their latest guidelines that says vaccinated people should be wearing masks, but the facts said otherwise.
Guest host Geoff Bennett had asked Alcindor to…