Alex Christy
Alex Christy | January 5, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN held two presidential town halls on Thursday in Iowa, one with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and another with former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and while most of the questions were good or unobjectionable as they came from actual Republican voters. However, when CNN deviated from that formula things went sideways as DeSantis was asked how many people…
Alex Christy | January 4, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Dana Bash welcomed former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on to Thursday's edition of CNN’s Inside Politics to discuss a variety of topics including why voters do not give President Joe Biden credit for the economy, which Bash insisted “continues to do well.”
Alex Christy | January 4, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour may claim to be truthful and not neutral, but when Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib joined her on her Wednesday show to blame Israel for the twin bombings in Iran that killed 84 people at the tomb of Qasem Soleimani, Amanpour simply noted that was “your opinion,” but since the program aired, ISIS has taken credit for the…
Alex Christy | January 4, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Why do Republicans care about the border? It is a simple question with a simple answer: it is a mess. But for MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who had guest hosting duties for Wednesday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, it is because “they want to let fewer brown people in” and any measures to address the issue prove that “the cruelty is the point.”
Alex Christy | January 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Wednesday edition of ABC’s The View kicked off with a discussion of a recent federal court ruling that left a Texas pro-life law intact which did set well with the assembled quintet as the fearmongering went from accusations that women will die, that doctors will have to violate the Hippocratic Oath, that women will not be able to get treatment for ectopic…
Alex Christy | January 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip tried without success on Tuesday to get Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to agree with Sen. Bernie Sanders that the time has come to cut aid to Israel. Later in the show she also failed to get Manhattan Institute podcaster Coleman Hughes to agree that now former Harvard President Claudine Gay is a victim of racism or, at the very least,…
Alex Christy | January 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip tried without success on Tuesday to get Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to agree with Sen. Bernie Sanders that the time has come to cut aid to Israel. Later in the show she also failed to get Manhattan Institute podcaster Coleman Hughes to agree that now former Harvard President Claudine Gay is a victim of racism or, at the very least,…
Alex Christy | January 2, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] It may only be the second day of 2024, but reporter Matt Egan joined Tuesday’s CNN News Central and got in an early contender for quote of the year when he claimed that resigning Harvard President Claudine Gay has not been accused of “stealing anyone’s ideas” just “copying other people’s writings without attribution” because that, apparently, is a big difference.
Alex Christy | January 2, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.]  As Americans headed home from their holiday vacations, some had the misfortune of having pro-Palestinian demonstrators block their way to the airport that delayed their flights, but as 2024 began only NBC gave the briefest of mentions of the radicals and their tactics.