Alex Christy
Alex Christy | July 24, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Almost three years have passed since Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation and the left still can't let it go. The most recent example was Tiffany Cross, host of MSNBC's The Cross Connection, declaring that Kavanaugh exhibited "privilege" and "white man rage" while defending himself of sexual assault. The genesis for Cross's remarks came from a recent New York…
Alex Christy | July 23, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN guest host of At This Hour, Dana Bash pondered on Friday if "'swearing off meat completely" is necessary to save the planet from climate change as she hyped a CNN Special Report that would be airing later Friday night on the future of food, hosted by Bill Weir.   Weir joined Bash to preview the special entitled Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food, to…
Alex Christy | July 22, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Carl Cameron and host Alisyn Camerota, both a couple of former Fox News personalities, questioned the motives of their former employer's vaccine advocacy, while Cameron was so disgusted with Fox and conservative media's vaccine coverage that he declared, "The problem with all of this is we have free speech and it doesn't entirely include…
Alex Christy | July 21, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Host of The Late Show on CBS, Stephen Colbert took the opportunity on his Tuesday show to claim that Dr. Fauci "jackslapped" Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on the question of whether the National Institute of Health funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Colbert began by teeing up a video of the two at Tuesday's Senate hearing, "Earlier today, Senator Paul got in a bit…
Alex Christy | July 17, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] During a Friday segment of Cuomo Prime Time on vaccine hesitancy and disinformation, namesake host Chris Cuomo spread some disinformation of his own by insinuating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is encouraging people not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Speaking of DeSantis, Cuomo alleged, "he's a smart guy. He got vaccinated, he was doing the vaccine thing early on. …
Alex Christy | July 15, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN's resident "reality checker" John Avlon joined CNN Newsroom on Wednesday to say that whether or not liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires is a choice for him to make, but that he is still being reckless for not considering politics in that decision. Host Poppy Harlow led Avlon by remembering that Breyer gave a speech "at Harvard last year warning…
Alex Christy | July 14, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Host of The Late Show on CBS, Stephen Colbert was joined by non-voting D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton early Wednesday morning to discuss Democratic efforts to fight back against GOP election laws which, according to Colbert, are analogous to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Colbert declared, "In the 1960s, you fought with people like John Lewis for civil …
Alex Christy | July 13, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday's installment of Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace claimed that her status as a former Republican gives her the ability to say that the GOP knows it needs to suppress the vote in order to win, thus proving President Biden correct when he said earlier in the day that Republicans pose the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War. Wallace…
Alex Christy | July 12, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] It is an unfortunate fact of life that social media allows people to say all sorts of horrible things that they would never say to a person's face. This is what happened after three black English soccer players missed their penalty kicks in England's EURO championship loss to Italy on Sunday, but for Monday's CNN Newsroom, the fact that people are racist jerks on the…
Alex Christy | July 10, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] According to The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross's namesake host, Critical Race Theory is just the latest culture war boogeyman conservatives are using in their attempt to "whitewash" America. Yet, she also maintained on her Saturday show that CRT is necessary in order to explain why 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was initially denied tenure at the…