Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former GOP congressman turned CNN political analyst Adam Kinzinger likes to say that his move away from the party is because of Donald Trump, January 6, and election denial, but on Wednesday, he took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he compared Speaker Mike Johnson’s statements that his worldview is found in the Bible to the Taliban.
[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez joined CNN’s Inside Politics panel on Wednesday to discuss how progressives are reacting to the Israeli-Hamas War and to suggest that Democrats who refused to condemn terrorism did so, not because they hate Israel, but because they are simply critics of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS, like most of the rest of the media, initially uncritically repeated Hamas claims that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital that turned out to be false. Nevertheless, chief political analyst John Dickerson defended the network’s coverage on Tuesday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, using the hospital as an example of why careful reporting is necessary.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Wolf Blitzer tried to shame Israel on Tuesday’s CNN News Central for a strike that took out a top Hamas commander because he was hiding at a refugee camp. Thankfully, retired Major General Dana Pittard would eventually remind him that any civilian casualties that resulted from the strike would be Hamas’s fault.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On October 7, the Jewish people suffered their greatest single-day loss of life since the Holocaust in a horrific massacre that should cause people to think twice before comparing someone or something to Hitler, the Nazis, or their crimes. Unfortunately, the news media only seem to apply that standard to one side.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS The Late Show Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central The Daily Show tempt host Charlamagne Tha God and correspondent Michael Kosta accused Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday of being a bad a hypocritical Christian because he doesn’t want to ban seafood or ostracize women during their menstrual cycles.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS The Late Show Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central The Daily Show tempt host Charlamagne Tha God and correspondent Michael Kosta accused Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday of being a bad a hypocritical Christian because he doesn’t want to ban seafood or ostracize women during their menstrual cycles.
[See NewsBusters for more.] As Israel expands operations against Hamas, it has cut Gaza’s internet and phone communications which led ABC Good Morning America Saturday host Janai Norman to raise the idea of “potential war crimes,” a suggestion that was politely and subtly batted down by military contributor and former commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, retired Gen. Robert Abrams.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Professor, frequent media guest, atheist, and former CNN+ host Scott Galloway traveled over to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to prove he knows nothing about religious people as he declared that new Speaker Mike Johnson’s belief God ordained him as Speaker proves he is “David Duke-lite.” Fellow atheist Maher did not go that far, but did play the Mussolini…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor and New York Times columnist freaked out on Friday’s PBS NewsHour at the news that Republicans selected Mike Johnson to be the new Speaker of the House by portraying him as a “far-right” religious extremist out to impose “Christian nationalism” on the country.