Alex Christy
Alex Christy | May 29, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Don Lemon Tonight guest host Laura Coates welcomed CNN's resident historian Douglas Brinkley onto the Friday show to discuss the latest way Republicans are threatening democracy. This time, it was a killing a bill that would've created a commission to investigate the January 6 riots. The decision to kill the bill led Brinkley to insist a third party be created to save…
Alex Christy | May 28, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Andrea Mitchell Reports guest host Peter Alexander was forced to acknowledge on Friday that maybe Trump Administration officials were correct, or at the very least, not conspiracy theorists, in declaring COVID-19 to be the result of a lab leak. Still, Alexander wondered if the former administration was looking for a scapegoat, a notion former Pence staffer-turned MSM…
Alex Christy | May 27, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN's Jake Tapper joined Inside Politics host John King on Thursday to promote his new novel The Devil May Dance with both men observing that the current situation with Republicans being opposed to a January 6 Commission bill is an apt analogy for the book. King described the book as being "about dysfunctional relationships, it’s about loyalty, it’s about real people…
Alex Christy | May 25, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday's edition of Inside Politics host John King conducted a panel discussion talking about the state of the country one year after the death of George Floyd. One of the panel members was LaTosha Brown of Black Votes Matter, who alleged that policing in America is premised on asking how we can inflict more pain and be more violent. King led Brown by asking what …
Alex Christy | May 24, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Alisyn Camerota welcomed Parkland activist David Hogg on to the Monday show to discuss not only the need for gun control in response to gun violence over the weekend, but also gun purchases since the beginning of the year. For Hogg, people purchase guns because they are bigoted individuals who fear those who are different. Camerota lamented, "And you…
Alex Christy | May 22, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Recently the University of North Carolina's board of trustees decided not to give 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, but despite this, she will still be teaching at UNC starting in July. Still, MSNBC's Ali Velshi used his Saturday show to accuse conservatives of silencing and cancelling her, because they don't support free speech. Suddenly, for MSNBC,…
Alex Christy | May 20, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday's Ayman Mohyeldin Reports, the MSNBC show's namesake host continued his colleagues' tradition of inviting anti-Semites to discuss the developments in Israel and Gaza. This time, Mohyeldin welcomed BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti to justify his movement, which is widely considered to be anti-Semitic, and to unwittingly show why peace Israeli-Palestinian peace…
Alex Christy | May 19, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] During a Wednesday segment on CNN Newsroom on the latest developments surrounding the recently bombed building in Gaza that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, Brian Stelter declared that it would be "incredible if true" if Hamas did indeed attempt to use journalists as human shields. Host Jim Sciutto apparently thought that Stelter was the man to go to for…
Alex Christy | May 17, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Of all the people MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell could have invited on to her Monday show to discuss the fighting between Israel and Hamas, she chose famed anti-Semitic Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi.  Mitchell asked Khalidi, who views Israel's very existence as an act of conquest and the Balfour Declaration, 1947 U.N. partition, U.N. Resolution 242, the Oslo Accords, and…
Alex Christy | May 14, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On CNN's Friday Inside Politics, host John King was joined by Dana Bash and Jeff Zeleny to discuss the CDC's new guidelines that say that vaccinated people do not need to wear masks in most circumstances. In addition to being worried about the guidelines, the trio took the opportunity to condemn former President Trump. King, apparently forgetting that Dr. Fauci was on…