Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] When dealing with an alleged hate crime, most people are naturally concerned with the motive, but MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough is not most people. Instead, he spent Tuesday’s show being more worried about GOP Christmas cards.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Being a temp host of The Daily Show gives you a platform to bring on guests to talk about issues you care about and for current temp host John Leguizamo, that meant bringing on The View’s Ana Navarro on Monday to claim that Republicans are the real socialists who “hate you” and “hate me” for being Latinos.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s The 11th, guest host Mehdi Hasan and pseudo-Republican David Jolly showed a strong aversion to facts as the former spread some fake news about GOP education bills and the former claimed that those bills signify a return to white nationalism.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart obsessively used the words “target” and “targeting” when describing GOP efforts to advance parental rights in education on Friday’s PBS NewsHour, claiming the whole thing is just a cover for going after “trans kids.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC keeps coming up with reasons to oppose a potential presidential campaign by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The latest reason came on Thursday from The 11th Hour guest host Mehdi Hasan and Crooked Media podcaster Juanita Tolliver where they lamented DeSantis’s popularity will likely increase because he “tortured” prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Benjamin “BenDeLaCreme” Putnam of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Al Franken not only alleged that Republicans in Tennessee had no idea what they’re talking about when they passed their “insidious” pan on children attending drag shows, but such laws contribute to high suicide rates.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Al Franken and correspondent Michael Kosta took aim at Fox’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, implying that he is a racist and labeling him “a world class asshole.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC come up with a new reason to oppose pro-life laws on Wednesday’s Chris Jansing Reports: they make it more difficult for women to give birth.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former senator and current Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Al Franken lamented on Tuesday’s show that his jokes will not convince people to give up fossil fuels and save the planet because “we're in for a grim future” on climate change.
[See NewsBusters for more.] A bill is making its way through the Florida State Legislature that would limit sex education to grades six and above, teach that sex is immutable and binary, and increase transparency, so naturally ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had to attack it on Monday, “just because your state looks like a penis, doesn't mean you have to act like one all the time.”