Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC was not the only network to try to tie Tuesday’s establishment of an Emmett Till monument to Republicans. CNN and MSNBC also got in on the act with wild and evidence-free declarations about how President Biden is protecting Till’s legacy from Republicans and how such brutal murders still occur today.
[See NewsBusters for more.] NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo kicked off his Monday show with a review of “Barbenheimer” and the lessons the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies supposedly hold for today. On the latter, Cuomo suggested ending World War II was an abdication of moral responsibility and that today, just as then, nobody is willing to ask real and meaningful questions.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Unlike many of his colleagues, MSNBC's Ali Velshi actually managed to acknowledge the existence of the recent House Oversight Committee hearing on two IRS whistleblowers alleging misconduct during the Hunter Biden investigation on his Saturday show, but only to dismiss them and other allegations related to the Biden family as “stunts and conspiracies.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy and associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett to recap the week that was by not only excluding any mention of the House hearing on IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, but finding consensus that Vice President Harris is correct to attack Florida Gov.…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Failed Texas Democratic senatorial, gubernatorial, and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke joined MSNBC’s Friday edition of Jose Diaz-Balart Reports to discuss the situation at the border and to accuse Gov. Greg Abbott of having “blood on his hands” and inspiring “white nationalist terrorists.” All the while, Diaz-Balart either sat silently as O’Rourke made these…
[See NewsBusters for more.] A befuddled Scott Jennings was forced to correct Rolling Stone’s Jay Michaelson on Thursday’s CNN Tonight when the former claimed that he couldn’t recall someone with “such anti-Semitic ideas getting this kind of platform” when referring to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Jennings politely reminded Michaelson that “It's…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Florida has come out with their new curriculum guidelines for African-American history and MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera invited Vanderbilt Prof. Michael Eric Dyson on to her Thursday show to talk about how they allegedly are comparable to teaching that there were good things about the Holocaust.
[See NewsBusters for more.] When not co-hosting The View on ABC, Ana Navarro doubles as a political commentator for CNN and on Tuesday’s CNN Tonight, she responded to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s interview with Jake Tapper by dismissing him as a “vindictive, thin-skinned, awkward, bobblehead of a bad candidate.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN self-parodied itself on Tuesday as it tried to discern higher meanings behind Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lunchtime trip to Subway on the same day he issued a target letter to former President Donald Trump as part of his January 6 investigation.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Monday’s The 11th Hour, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle joined up with Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig to warn that Donald Trump and other Republicans are not fans of the unelected bureaucracy and have “very alarming plans” to do something about that could lead to “autocracy.”