Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC The 11th Hour guest host Ali Velshi, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, and presidential historian Michael Beschloss were all greatly distressed on Thursday as they reacted to the “weird” GOP primary debate from the night before that focused on policy differences between the candidates instead of obsession over Donald Trump and “the anti-democratic …
[See NewsBusters for more.] When it comes to elections, the media should be pro-debate, especially when no votes have officially been cast, but the post-non Trump debate coverage on Thursday’s Good Morning America on ABC and CBS Mornings dismissed the whole thing as a “fantasy land” that resembled a “job interview” in which the candidate has already been selected.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart welcomed correspondent and podcaster Trymaine Lee to his Wednesday program to preview the GOP debate by focusing on the word “woke,” and how according to one of Lee’s guests, Republicans have turned it into “another way of saying black” or “the N-word.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] It may be August of 2023, but the media still can’t quit COVID alarmism. The latest COVID freak out came on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning as the assembled cast wondered whether it was time to bring back masks.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and NBC national reporter Bracey Harris teamed up on the former’s Monday show to discuss Arkansas’s announcement that AP African American Studies will not count towards graduation credits because it is still a pilot program. Extrapolating from that, the duo suggested the state will not teach about the Little Rock Nine, which is simply not true.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Protesting emeritus Prof. Marvin Dunn joined Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC to discuss his opposition to Florida’s new history standards on slavery. During his rantings, Dunn argued that one of the experts who wrote the standards is an anti-Semite who once thanked God for slavery. There was just one problem: that woman opposes the standards and is an…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Terri Lesley was recently fired from her position as director of the Campbell County Public Library System in Wyoming and on Thursday, she joined CNN This Morning to talk about it. There, she was allowed to falsely state that none of the books in the library contained any sexually explicit material.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Wednesday edition of CNN This Morning reacted to the news that Arkansas will not be offering AP African American Studies for graduation credits by tying the move to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s campaign against Critical Race Theory and everyone from the former Democrat, supposed fact checker, and Republican deputy chief of staff all agreed: Republicans want…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Saturday editions of NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS Saturday Morning all mentioned Republican objections to Friday’s announcement that David Weiss was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, but only CBS managed to remember the IRS whistleblowers that give GOP accusations that Weiss initially negotiated a “sweetheart deal” an…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Reacting to the news that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to Friday’s PBS NewsHour that Fox News has feed its viewers a “anti-Biden family diet” over the past few years.