Alex Christy
Alex Christy | March 14, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show reacted to the overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House on Wednesday that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok by accusing those in favor of hypocrisy and jealousy in a heavily sarcastic satirical news report.
Alex Christy | March 13, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Donald Trump going up against Joe Biden is not the only thing familiar about the 2024 presidential election. There is also MSNBC’s Joy Reid spreading voter suppression conspiracy theories. On the Tuesday installment of The ReidOut, the eponymous host welcomed Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock to accuse officials in his state of suppressing the vote, the lack of evidence…
Alex Christy | March 13, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Donald Trump going up against Joe Biden is not the only thing familiar about the 2024 presidential election. There is also MSNBC’s Joy Reid spreading voter suppression conspiracy theories. On the Tuesday installment of The ReidOut, the eponymous host welcomed Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock to accuse officials in his state of suppressing the vote, the lack of evidence…
Alex Christy | March 13, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Continuing his effort to provide comfort to despondent liberals, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel interviewed four former non-violent prisoners on Tuesday where he mused about what Donald Trump could expect if he is ever sent to prison on everything from race relations to his diet to his romantic life.
Alex Christy | March 12, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Prior to Sunday’s Oscars, actor Robert De Niro traveled over to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher to warn that if Trump wins in November, then Trump will “come looking for me.” Later, on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, De Niro claimed Trump is simultaneously “so [bleep] stupid” and a “[bleep] moron.”
Alex Christy | March 12, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Jon Stewart welcomed Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky to Comedy Central and Monday’s edition of The Daily Show to promote his new book, Tyranny of the Minority, where he wondered if the Constitution is to blame for the “mess” the country finds itself in.
Alex Christy | March 9, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] It’s not been a good couple of days for ABC’s reputation as a hard-hitting journalistic enterprise. On Friday, chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce played softball with Vice President Kamala Harris, only to be surpassed by Saturday’s Good Morning America co-host Janai Norman in the competition to see who could give the easiest interview as the latter welcomed…
Alex Christy | March 9, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with ABC, NBC, and CBS on Friday to recap President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address and discuss the campaign. While all three networks condensed the interviews for their respective nightly news shows, ABC’s World News Tonight edits were the most sympathetic to Harris.
Alex Christy | March 8, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Comedy Central sent Michael Kosta to Eagle Pass, Texas, to report on the border crisis for the Friday installment of The Daily Show, but according to him, the real crisis is about the reaction to the crisis as Texas is “attracting a flood of Republican governors, Congressional delegations, and even billionaire weirdos.”
Alex Christy | March 8, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS chief political analyst John Dickerson joined Stephen Colbert on Thursday for a special live edition of The Late Show, where the two fawned over President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address by claiming that simply by giving the speech, Biden “reknits those bonds” of democracy.