Alex Christy
Alex Christy | December 12, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] If there’s one type of Republican CBS’s Stephen Colbert can tolerate, it is one that thinks Donald Trump poses a threat to all things good and decent, but unlike Adam Kinzinger comparing Mike Johnson to the Taliban, Liz Cheney was not thrilled with Colbert blaming GOP media criticism or Ronald Reagan’s saying that government is the problem for the rise of Trump on…
Alex Christy | December 9, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN senior political analyst John Avlon, with his signature “reality check” segments, fancies himself as someone who calls out political spin and misinformation, but on Friday’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO it was Avlon who needed and got a much needed reality check on the Biden economy after he said the country was “objectively” better off than in 2020.
Alex Christy | December 9, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Ali Velshi is the kind of media personality who thinks his job is to combat fake news and disinformation and has no problem getting into fiery exchanges with guests if he thinks they are engaged in peddling such narratives. However, on his Saturday show when Velshi welcomed former Palestinian Minister of Higher Education and Research Hanan Ashrawi who accused…
Alex Christy | December 9, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] With Hunter Biden being charged with multiple tax-related felonies, the cast of Friday’s PBS NewsHour wanted to emphasize what it considered the main takeaway “the indictment does not in any way implicate President Joe Biden.”
Alex Christy | December 8, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Jimmy Fallon is the host of The Tonight Show on NBC, but Thursday’s show might as well have been one of those cable shopping shows where products that exist, but don’t need to are pitched to the audience. Specifically, Fallon welcomed the finalists of Netflix's Squid Games: The Challenge and took the occasion to have one of those finalists—Sam Lantz— hype his “gender-…
Alex Christy | December 8, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] New York Times correspondent and author Michael Bender joined Friday’s CNN This Morning to react to Hunter Biden’s latest indictment on tax evasion where he proceeded to memory holed the IRS whistleblowers who alleged he received preferential treatment in order to proclaim that in “a normal world” these latest charges would debunk the idea that the Justice Department…
Alex Christy | December 8, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] An annoyed Seth Meyers reacted to the Wednesday GOP presidential debate on the Thursday edition of Late Night on NBC by claiming that “no one gives a [bleep]” and that the four debaters were all a bunch of “blowhards.”
Alex Christy | December 7, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Charlamagne tha God is currently in round two of temp hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and while he has had his moments of partisan even-handedness, he was experiencing the holiday blues on Wednesday as he implored President Biden to “give America the ultimate Christmas gift and step aside” so that Democrats may have a better chance of defeating Donald Trump.
Alex Christy | December 6, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel got more than he bargained for when he welcomed actor and comedian Bill Burr on to his Tuesday show. Before Kimmel could ask what it is like to play a talking turtle, Burr would explain to Kimmel that “you idiot liberals” have made Donald Trump a “martyr.”
Alex Christy | December 6, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta took his book tour to the Tuesday edition of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip where he warned that Evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump are not that different than Vladimir Putin.