Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC’s Raf Sanchez picked the worst possible time to break out the “extreme right” labeling as he reported from Israel on Saturday’s Today in the aftermath of the massive Hamas terrorist attacks and the possibility that the “extreme right” Israeli government may decide to invade Gaza to rescue the hostages there.
[See NewsBusters for more.] During the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Israel that left over 100 dead, 900 injured, and resulted in several hostages, MSNBC naturally asked on Saturday how this could have happened. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell joined the breaking news coverage via phone to claim that a big reason why was that the Israelis and the Saudis would…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid freaked out on her Thursday show that Republicans are seeking to take away another supposed right from the American people: the right to for sexually explicit material in school or as she put it “children’s right to read.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] For years, NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers has demanded that Republicans put the country above their partisan self-interest, but when Republicans recently attacked Democrats for not doing so during the Speaker vote, Meyers essentially told Republicans on Thursday that they deserve it.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Anderson Cooper tied himself into a pretzel on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS as he tried to explain that journalists need to “point out what is true and what is not true,” but also to “let viewers make up their mind.” Cooper also laughably implied that this fact-checking genre of journalist is done equally to both parties.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Andrea Mitchell isn’t just a midday MSNBC host, she is also arguably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s number one media fan, so naturally she got triggered when former communications advisors to former Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, Brendan Buck defended Republicans booting Pelosi out of her office in the Capitol in the aftermath of Democrats joining with eight…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes traveled over to NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday to discuss the state of the political world including the situation surrounding House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, and Matt Gaetz. For Hayes, one of the big takeaways was that the whole episode shows just how awesome former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For his first post-Writers’ Strike guest, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss his favorite topic: Donald Trump’s weight. Schwarzenegger would also insist that he is still a Republican by offering up left-wing causes such as climate activism and “universal health care” as reasons why.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The men of late night returned from the writers’ strike on Monday and other than CBS’s Stephen Colbert no longer censoring Donald Trump’s name, not much changed as the hosts were eager to get back to their Trump jokes.