Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] On the Saturday edition of NBC’s Today reporter Erin McLaughlin ran down the list of evidence Israel has provided that Hamas has used the Al-Shifa Hospital for military purposes only to dismisses it as “nothing definitive.” Meanwhile, on CBS Saturday Morning, Imtiaz Tyab did the same thing, labeling the provided as evidence as “frankly underwhelming.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former GOP Rep. and current CNN political analyst Adam Kinzinger continued to prove that his turn against the GOP isn’t just related to the aftermath of the 2020 election and January 6 when he traveled to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to once again compare Speaker Mike Johnson to the Taliban.
[See NewsBusters for more.] New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour Friday weekly news recapper David Brooks claimed he isn't sure progressives know what they are talking about when they chant “from the river to the sea.” Whether Brooks actually has no idea or is playing dumb doesn’t really matter, PBS viewers deserve a better conservative perspective.
[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz joined the Friday edition of Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC where she misrepresented PBS’s own polling data in order to portray Israel’s war against Hamas as much more polarizing than it actually is.
[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl took his book tour to CBS and Thursday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because if you are a liberal media personality with an anti-Trump book to sell that is simply what you do. During the interview, Karl told Colbert that he wrote the book to preempt arguments from the Trump Campaign that a second Trump…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Exactly one day after being rebuked by Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz for repeating Hamas propaganda, Nada Bashir returned to CNN News Central on Thursday to hype the ludicrous idea that certain “experts” are entertaining that Israel is committing genocide because for CNN, being truthful and not neutral has its limits.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz joined the Wednesday edition of CNN News Central and condemned the network for repeating Hamas propaganda on the Al-Shifa Hospital when it cited Hamas saying there is no command center at the facility.
[See NewsBusters for more.] There are echo chambers and then there is whatever you call it when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show as that duo came together on Tuesday to promote the former’s book about America, fascism, and the 1930s and mourn that there are people—mainly former President Donald Trump—who also insist on calling other people fascists.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Leslie Jones kicked off her second stint as temp host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Monday by attacking Sen. Tim Scott as a “Milk Dud-looking mother[bleep]” as he ended his presidential campaign.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight, HBO’s John Oliver attempted to give what he would consider a nuanced take on the Israel-Hamas War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict more generally. However, it was hard to take such nuance seriously when he accused the United States of being “heavily implicated” in non-existent Israeli war crimes.