Alex Christy
Alex Christy | March 27, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show came together on Tuesday to put together a satirical movie trailer about a male GOP politician who becomes a woman after a “freak jacking off accident” and has an epiphany that the party needs to support abortion, all while portraying the party as a bunch of out-of-touch, sex-crazed misogynists.
Alex Christy | March 26, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid was not the only NBC and MSNBC employee to lament the hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, but she may have been the most unintentionally hilarious. The noted election denier used Monday’s edition of The ReidOut to claim that she has no problems with the network hiring Republicans because some of them even guest host her show, the most left-wing…
Alex Christy | March 26, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert has used The Late Show to routinely condemn Supreme Court rulings after it rejected his legal theories from way out in left field. On Monday, Colbert welcomed former liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to the show to promote the latter's new book and seek affirmation that his views of the Court are correct. Unfortunately for him, Breyer refused to play…
Alex Christy | March 23, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Liberal journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher took her book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to offer up several contradictory claims. Swisher claimed to be for debate while defending collusion between the government and social media companies and labeled Rupert Murdoch “Uncle Satan” while lamenting the lack of serious debate.
Alex Christy | March 22, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Dana Bash took time on Friday’s edition of Inside Politics to discuss some of the network’s latest polling data that showed Donald Trump with a 20-point lead over Joe Biden on who would do a better job on the issue of Israel and Gaza. Bash simply couldn’t believe as she scoffed that “the world is upside down.”
Alex Christy | March 22, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] An intellectually unsophisticated Jimmy Kimmel reacted to Alabama’s new anti-DEI bill during his Thursday monologue on ABC by claiming that those in favor of it do not like reading and are some sort of Confederate dead ender.
Alex Christy | March 21, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] In 2020 and 2024 respectively, GOP President Donald Trump and Democratic President Joe Biden each faced three longshot primary challengers, but the media coverage of these campaigns was vastly different, a NewsBusters study has found.
Alex Christy | March 21, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Alabama doesn’t want to teach its children that they are responsible for the sins of others in the past or that meritocracy is racist or sexist. For MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight Wednesday guest host Ali Velshi, not only does this mean teaching the history of segregation just became more difficult, but those in favor of such a law might as well be George Wallace himself.
Alex Christy | March 20, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Donald Trump is contemplating endorsing a 15-week abortion ban and Wednesday’s Inside Politics on CNN was eager to denounce it as extreme. In particular, senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson portrayed it and Trump’s language on the issue as “very cavalier” and “very callous.”
Alex Christy | March 20, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid brought out all the usual pejoratives on Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut as she sought to explain why anyone would support Donald Trump. Reid came to the conclusion that it has to be because they are a racist, sexist, tax-hating rich guys who claim to be a Christians while longing for the days when there were no child labor laws, and Trump is simply…